Great Uncle
Roland Hipkins (1894-1951), art teacher, enlisted at age 21, December 1915 at Lichfield,
England.
He joined the
Malta Expeditionary Force April 1916 and was employed at the Prisoners of War
Camp, Malta, from November 1917 to July 1918 when he was posted to the First
Garrison, Battalion of West Yorkshire Regiment.
He was demobilized in Boulogne
February 1919 and returned to England and to his artistic life.
He later
immigrated to New Zealand and was an acknowledged artist and teacher here.
Maybe if he
hadn’t gone to war he would have had a healthier life and lived long enough to
meet me.
~ Rosemary McCarthy
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