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Military service
Service number:
K/88012
Age:
33
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Division:
6 Field Company
Birth:
September 6, 1911
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Enlistment:
April 23, 1940
Esquimalt, British Columbia
Death:
October 31, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. B. 9.
Additional information
Son of Jesse James and Sarah Elizabeth Hickman of Victoria, British Columbia. Husband of Amelia Hutchings, Southamption, Hants, England. On 30 October 1987, The village of Retranchement unveiled a Remembrance Stone for Canadian Sapper, Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman, killed helping to erect a Bailey bridge during the Canadians' advance.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman
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Gravemarker
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Monument
Brigde named after John Hickman. The bridge is located in Holland. -
Photo
Military bridge named after John Hickman c.1944. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Lockhart Hickman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 334 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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