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Captain Charles Robert Reeves Hickey

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Captain
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 204th Sqdn. 61st Wing
Birth: September 10, 1897 Nanaimo, British Columbia
Enlistment: March 17, 1916 British Columbia
Death: October 3, 1918

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COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. K. 12.
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Son of Major Robert Hume Fayrer Hickey (11th Canadian Mounted Rifles) and Charlotte Emily (nee Reeves) Hickey, of Parksville, British Columbia. Brother of Jennett and Elsie. He was a farmer and single. "He has been engaged in numerous air battles with marked success during a period of twelve months. On a recent occasion, he flew to the assistance of one of our machines which was being pressed by two enemy machines and succeeded in destroying one of them." DFC citation, London Gazette, 3 August 1918 and A very determined air fighter who has destroyed seven enemy machines and brought down nine completely out of control during the past three months. His skill and initiative as a flight commander have made his flight very successful. Last month he destroyed two machines and brought down two more out of control in one day, and the remainder of his flight, at the same time succeeded in dispersing several more enemy aircraft without sustaining any casualties."

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 588 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY Belgium

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY is located 1 km beyond the village of Koksijde on the N396 towards De Panne. From Koksijde Dorp the N396 Houtsaegerlaan crosses the Zeelaan and at the same time changes its name to Robert Vandammestraat. The cemetery is about 1 Km along the Robert Vandammestraat N369, on the right-hand side.

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