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Military service
Service number:
E/30517
Age:
20
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 29, 1921
Nash Creek, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
September 1, 1940
Québec
Death:
December 19, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. C. 5.
Additional information
Son of John Hickey and Elexa Jane Carrier of Nash Creek, New Brunswick.
His brother, Joseph William Hickey, service number E-30331, Royal Rifles of Canada, was made prisoner of war in Hong Kong and in Japan. He survived the war.
Additional citations
War Medal 1939-1945, Pacific Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, and 1939-1945 Star.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Charles Gordon Hickey
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Grave Marker
Rifleman CHARLES GORDON HICKEY is one 283 Canadian soldiers, 107 of whom are unidentified, who are buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers who were killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Newspaper Clipping
Rifleman CHARLES GORDON HICKEY was reported to have been Killed in Action in the Canadian Army's 242nd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canadian Casuatlies in the Defence of Hong Kong
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada.
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Rifleman Charles Gordon Hickey
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Charles Gordon Hickey
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Charles Gordon Hickey
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Charles Gordon Hickey
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 32 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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