Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameHenry Maurice WIX MC
, Half 4th Cousin
, Half 4th CousinBirthabt 1915
Death17 Jun 1943
BurialNicosia War Cemetery, Nicosia, Cypress
FatherErnest Henry WIX (1880-1952)
MotherPhyllis Mary COBB (1887-1956)
Notes for Henry Maurice WIX MC
UK Commonwealth War Graves
Nicosia War Cemetery, Cypress 1
Captain Henry Maurice Wix, Regimental Number 63958, Military Cross 97 (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 17th June 1943. Age 28. Son of Ernest Henry and Phyllis Mary Wix, of Faversham, Kent 1.B. 4.
National Probate Calendar
Henry Maurice Wix of Mall House Faversham Kent died 17 June 1943 on war service Probate Llandudno 22 June 1944 to John David Wix Lieutenant H.M. army. Effects 381 pounds
Military Cross
Received July 23 1942, passed July 25
Royal Artillery (97th Kent Yeoman, Field Regiment)
Regimental Number 63958
Lieutenant (I/C) Henry Maurice Wix
This officer showed conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations extending from 14th to 19th June.
On the 15th June he went out on patrol and captured single handed eleven German prisoners.
On the 16th his Troop was over-run in the SIDI REZEGH box. Although his SGT major was killed by his side and he himself was slightly concussed by the same shell, he was enabled to save two of his guns and withdraw inside the Battery perimeter.
On the 17th June though still suffering from shock and unable to move owing to a twisted knee, he assisted Major Allfrey in the engagement noted on a separate A.F.W.3121 and it was partly due to persistence and untiring energy that the column got safely through.Recommended by Lt. Col. Hustington?
from https://www.ksy.org.uk/Stories/ViewStory/57?page=24
The Sharpshooters - The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
Fellow Officers – Captain ‘Tiger’ Wix MC
Henry, universally known amongst his fellow officers as ‘Tiger’ Wix was commissioned into 385 Battery of the Kent Yeomanry in 1935. After the outbreak of war, he was promoted to Captain and went with the regiment to France. Wounded in the weeks before Dunkirk, he was evacuated to a French hospital near Paris, and then on to Bordeaux in ambulances driven by English female drivers, in the teeth of the rapid German advance. There he boarded a British Destroyer bound for Falmouth. The story of the escape in described in Lushington’s book.
He was then mobilized to the Middle East. He was awarded a Military Cross along with Maj HM Allfrey for his actions in the desert during June 1942. During the withdrawal to the Alamein Line in July 1942, ‘Tiger’ was seriously wounded when acting as a Forward Observation Officer in a ‘Matilda’ tank, after it was hit by enemy shell fire. He went to Cyprus with the regiment in 1943 where he subsequently died on 17th June. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.
from https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memo...nicosia-war-cemetery/
NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY was established by the military authorities during the Second World War for the burial of servicemen who died while on duty in Cyprus. A number of graves were also moved here from small civilian cemeteries in villages in different parts of the island.
There are now 215 Second World War casualties, two of whom are unidentified and four non-war casualties commemorated in this cemetery.
Within the cemetery stands the NICOSIA CREMATION MEMORIAL, which commemorates 73 soldiers of the army of undivided India who died in Cyprus during the Second World War and whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith.
Also in this cemetery is the CYPRUS (NICOSIA) MEMORIAL which commemorates the officers and men of the Cyprus Regiment and the Cyprus Volunteer Force who died in Cyprus during the Second World War and were buried in village cemeteries in various parts of the island. Some lie in family or collective graves where it was not possible to commemorate them with the usual Commission headstone.
Nicosia War Cemetery, Cypress 1
Captain Henry Maurice Wix, Regimental Number 63958, Military Cross 97 (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 17th June 1943. Age 28. Son of Ernest Henry and Phyllis Mary Wix, of Faversham, Kent 1.B. 4.
National Probate Calendar
Henry Maurice Wix of Mall House Faversham Kent died 17 June 1943 on war service Probate Llandudno 22 June 1944 to John David Wix Lieutenant H.M. army. Effects 381 pounds
Military Cross
Received July 23 1942, passed July 25
Royal Artillery (97th Kent Yeoman, Field Regiment)
Regimental Number 63958
Lieutenant (I/C) Henry Maurice Wix
This officer showed conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations extending from 14th to 19th June.
On the 15th June he went out on patrol and captured single handed eleven German prisoners.
On the 16th his Troop was over-run in the SIDI REZEGH box. Although his SGT major was killed by his side and he himself was slightly concussed by the same shell, he was enabled to save two of his guns and withdraw inside the Battery perimeter.
On the 17th June though still suffering from shock and unable to move owing to a twisted knee, he assisted Major Allfrey in the engagement noted on a separate A.F.W.3121 and it was partly due to persistence and untiring energy that the column got safely through.Recommended by Lt. Col. Hustington?
from https://www.ksy.org.uk/Stories/ViewStory/57?page=24
The Sharpshooters - The Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry
Fellow Officers – Captain ‘Tiger’ Wix MC
Henry, universally known amongst his fellow officers as ‘Tiger’ Wix was commissioned into 385 Battery of the Kent Yeomanry in 1935. After the outbreak of war, he was promoted to Captain and went with the regiment to France. Wounded in the weeks before Dunkirk, he was evacuated to a French hospital near Paris, and then on to Bordeaux in ambulances driven by English female drivers, in the teeth of the rapid German advance. There he boarded a British Destroyer bound for Falmouth. The story of the escape in described in Lushington’s book.
He was then mobilized to the Middle East. He was awarded a Military Cross along with Maj HM Allfrey for his actions in the desert during June 1942. During the withdrawal to the Alamein Line in July 1942, ‘Tiger’ was seriously wounded when acting as a Forward Observation Officer in a ‘Matilda’ tank, after it was hit by enemy shell fire. He went to Cyprus with the regiment in 1943 where he subsequently died on 17th June. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.
from https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memo...nicosia-war-cemetery/
NICOSIA WAR CEMETERY was established by the military authorities during the Second World War for the burial of servicemen who died while on duty in Cyprus. A number of graves were also moved here from small civilian cemeteries in villages in different parts of the island.
There are now 215 Second World War casualties, two of whom are unidentified and four non-war casualties commemorated in this cemetery.
Within the cemetery stands the NICOSIA CREMATION MEMORIAL, which commemorates 73 soldiers of the army of undivided India who died in Cyprus during the Second World War and whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith.
Also in this cemetery is the CYPRUS (NICOSIA) MEMORIAL which commemorates the officers and men of the Cyprus Regiment and the Cyprus Volunteer Force who died in Cyprus during the Second World War and were buried in village cemeteries in various parts of the island. Some lie in family or collective graves where it was not possible to commemorate them with the usual Commission headstone.