Hickmott, O T
OLIVER THOMAS HICKMOTT
Remembered with honour Kingston-upon-Thames Cemetery: Row C, Grave 2847.
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at the 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester, of wounds received in action. Unfortunately, Oliver’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Stephen and the late Emily (formerly CHAPMAN, nee RELF) HICKMOTT; husband of 1) Agnes Dora (nee HASELGROVE) HICKMOTT; 2) Sarah Elizabeth (nee NOBBS) HICKMOTT of Watford.
His parents married 29 January 1870 at All Saints, Biddenden, Kent. Emily died 1909 in the Kingston district aged 63; Stephen died 1925 in the Maidstone, Kent, district aged 73.
Oliver was born 1887 in Maidstone, and married firstly 1907 in the Ashford, Kent, district; they had one child. Agnes then disappears [!]. He married secondly 1916 in the Watford district, and resided in Watford. Sarah never remarried, and died 1977 in the Watford district aged 86.
On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Maidstone, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a publisher’s clerk aged 23, he lived in Kingston. [Meanwhile, Agnes is a servant aged 23 in Wanstead, Essex]
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)