Eight men from Hickling died whilst serving during WWI:

• John G Faulks 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers; died 1st July 1916
• Stephen Crump 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters; died 3rd September 1916
• John (Jack) CW Hill 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; died 9th December 1916
• Charles Simpson 13th Battalion Yorks; died 11th July 1917
• Cecil Simpson 13th Battalion Yorks; died 23rd November 1917
• William Salt 14th Battalion Yorks & Lancs; died 12th April 1918
• Samuel Cheshire Doubleday 1st Battalion East Kent (Buffs) Reg’t; died 8th May 1918
• William Collyer 8th Battalion Northants & 1st Battalion Prince of Wales Leinster; died 17th May 1918

Hickling Roll of Honour WWI.

George Henry Brown	John George Faulks (Faulkes)	Arthur Salt
Edgar Burnett	William Arthur Faulks (Faulkes)	William Salt
Horace Burnett	Edward Hickling	Arthur Shelton
Will Burton	John Charles W Hill	Cecil Simpson
Percy Collishaw	William J Hill	Charles Simpson (Charlie)
William Collyer	Noel Garner Hubbard	Donald Simpson
Frederick Copley	Fred Jackson	Roland Simpson
Richard Francis Copley	George Maltby	Isaac Claude V Smith
William Henry Copley	John W Mann	Joseph Harold Spencer
John Arthur Cox	Richard Mann	John (Jack) Squires
Albert Crump	Albert Mitchell Marshall (Albert)	Leonard R Squires
Frederick John William Crump	Edward Leonard Marshall (Leonard)	Arthur Wakerley (Wakerly)
Percy Crump	John Howard Marshall (Howard)	Vincent Walker
Stephen Crump (Steven)	Joseph Wise Marshall (Joseph)	James Herbert Ward
Frank Dickman	Richard Hardy Marshall (Richard)	Joseph John William (Willie) Ward
Samuel Cheshire Doubleday	Samuel Thomas Marshall (Samuel)	Joseph Ward
William Thomas Doubleday	Tom Munks	John Edwin Woolley
Edward Exton	John Frederick Pearson (Frederick)	Arthur Wright
George William Exton	John George Pepper	Frank Wright
Ellis Faulks (Faulkes)	Thomas Albert Rose (Albert)	James Wright

It is our plan to build a biography page for each of these men but it will take some time! We would like to build a picture of what happened to these men (& their families) who survived the Great War. If you have any photographs or biographical information to help us with this project, please contact us, using the link, below.

Roll of Honour (WWI):

There are two Rolls of Honour recording the names of those from Hickling who served during World War I. The Chapel Roll of Honour includes 57 names whilst the Church Roll of Honour includes 59; some of the name spellings are different across the two lists (both spellings are given, below) and they are listed in a different but, roughly, alphabetical order. Joseph John William (Willie) Ward is on the Chapel list but not the Church list; William Collyer, Fred Jackson and James Herbert Ward are on the Church list but not the Chapel list. There may have been some confusion in the recording of the Ward family, as Joseph John William (Willie) Ward and James Herbert Ward are brothers (sons of Joseph and May Ward).

The Church Roll of Honour also includes the regiments for each soldier. In some villages and communities friends and siblings joined up together, served together and were often killed together – in some cases a community lost all of their men in the same campaign, inflicting terrible devastation for those left behind. Unusually, in Hickling, men seemed to have joined a wide range of different regiments – in a sense, ‘spreading the risk’. This may explain the relatively low casualty rates experienced in Hickling; of the 59 soldiers listed on the Church Roll of Honour, there are approx. 30 different regiments listed.

The Wadkin archives contain a six-page summary of Hickling’s World War I history which includes anecdotes, details of fundraising, a plane crash, an escaped German prisoner-of-war, the Armistice and the Memorials:

War in Three Villages: Hickling, Upper Broughton and Kinoulton.

Upper Broughton History Group created a commemorative booklet for the children of Kinoulton Primary School as a part of their 2011-2014 Heritage Lottery Fund project, ‘Where do we think we live’: War in Three Villages.

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This gallery is from the Wadkin Archives