209052 Cpl. Edward William Hickmott MiD.British Army from:Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent My father, Ted Hickmot, returned from the war and like so many veterans never talked about his experience. Sadly I was just 8 years old when he died and of course I was too young to understand that I should have found out more from him. My mother knew very little of what he experienced and it was only after she died that I found his campagn medals and was able to identify where he had experienced the war. I know he was in the Middle East since I have in the past recieved correspondance from families he visited from South Africa on route to Egypt. He was involved in actions in North Africa where we like to think Rommel gave up when my dad arrived on the scene, all eight and a half stone of him! He appears to have been in Scicily and returned home then to be involved in the invasion of Normandy. It was sometime in that theatre that he was Mentioned in Despatches, something I would like to learn more of but not sure where to start. I have photos of him in Belgium and Holland when he was in Arnhem. My abiding memory is of his return from service and having watched a DC3 fly by and convinced that my father would be on it, who knows maybe he was.
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