Colin Hicks was the first serviceman from Mernda to enlist and also the first casualty from the district in the Great War, dying of wounds while being invalided back to Egypt.
Hicks suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and died at 2.30 a.m. on 14 May, 1915 on board the hospital ship H.S. Gascon while being ferried to hospital in Alexandria. He was buried at sea three miles off Gaba Tepe and commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
His father Thomas later performed the unveiling ceremony of the Honour Board at the Mayfield Presbyterian Church in Mernda.
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