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Military service
Age:
32
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth:
October 2, 1909
Kingston, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 12, 1940
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
December 25, 1941
St. Stephen Hospital, Stanley, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 27.
Additional information
Son of Overton and Emma Hickey. Husband of Ann Lee Hickey.
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Memorial
Captain OVERTON STARK HICKEY, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, is one of 11 Canadian soldiers who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial, and one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. According to information compiled by Vincent Lopata and posted at the Hong Kong Veteran¿s Commorative Association website, Captain HICKEY was killed by the the Japanese at the Stanley Massacre while trying to protect the nurses. -
Newspaper Clipping
Captain OVERTON STARK HICKEY was reported to Died of Wounds in the Canadian Army's 244th overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 9, 1943. -
Dedicatory Inscription of the Sai Wan Memorial
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Unknown Marker
The Sai Wan Memorial is located at the entrance of Sai Wan Cemetery. 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War are buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which 444 of the burials are the remains of unidentified soldiers, including those of 107 Canadian soldiers, most of whom were killed or died of wounds during the defense of Hong Kong, which took place from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. This is one such grave marker. There is a possibility that the remains of Captain OVERTON STARK HICKEY lie beneath this grave marker, or one of the other 106 grave markers in Sai Wan Cemetery that simply read, A SOLDIER OF THE 1939-1945 WAR. A CANADIAN REGIMENT. KNOWN UNTO GOD. The unidentified soldiers are commemorated at the Sai Wan Memorial. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Captain Overton Stark Hickey
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Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
Digital gallery of
Captain Overton Stark Hickey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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