Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Hircock of Ayston, Rutland. Prior to enlistment he had been a cabinet maker with a Liverpool firm. He initially joined the 13th Battalion of the Kings Liverpool Regiment, embarking for France in March 1916 and taking part in many of the principle battles of the period. He was killed sometime around the 31st July 1917 somewhere near Messines, Belgium, having taken part in an attack on that day and not having been seen since, there was no authentic information forthcoming, and he was therefore posted, missing, killed in action. The manager of the works where Private Hircock was employed prior to the war, forwarded to his parents a photograph of a memorial placed in the front office to his memory as a token of the respect and esteem in which he was held by the Directors and his fellow workmen.