Three: Private E. Hickman, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, wounded in action at Ennetieres on 23 November 1914, he was subsequently taken Prisoner of War, and died of wounds in captivity on 27 November 1914

1914 Star (2822 Pte. E. Hickman. 2/Notts: & Derby: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2822 Pte. E. Hickman. Notts. & Derby. R.) Star and VM both silvered, edge bruising, therefore fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Ernest Hickman was born in Radford, Nottinghamshire and attested for the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment in Nottingham in August 1908. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 November 1914. Sustaining a gunshot wound to the pelvis at Ennetieres on 23 November 1914, he was conveyed to a Field Ambulance Station, but was too ill to be moved so was left behind to be captured by the enemy. Taken Prisoner of War, he died of wounds in captivity on 27 November 1914, and is buried in the Erquinghem Churchyard Extension, France.