The
Hickman Family
The Hickman family married
into the Hopkins family. Based in Southwark and South London
Alison Hickman
Born: unknown
Father: Anthony Hickman
(1943)
Mother: Isabella
Anthony A Hickman
Born: 1943
Father: Ernest Hickman
(1909-1967)
Mother: Doris V Johns
Married: Isabella
(divorced)
Children: Maria and Alison
Christopher Hickman
Born:
1922
Died:
24/11/1943
Father:
Ernest Arthur Hickman
Mother:
Mary Amelia Hopkins (1883)
Private
278997 of the Royal Army Service Corps Died in Tunisia buried in the
MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY Tunisia, 60 kilometers west of Tunis.
In
May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of
the Axis powers by a combined Allied force. The campaign began on 8 November
1942, when Commonwealth and American troops made a series of landings in
Algeria and Morocco. The Germans responded immediately by sending a force from
Sicily to northern Tunisia, which checked the Allied advance east in early
December. In the south, the Axis forces defeated at El Alamein withdrew into
Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. By
mid April 1943, the combined Axis force was hemmed into a small corner of
north-eastern Tunisia and the Allies were grouped for their final offensive.
Medjez-el-Bab was at the limit of the Allied advance in December 1942 and
remained on the front line until the decisive Allied advances of April and May
1943. There are 2,903 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or
commemorated in MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR
Elizabeth Betty Hickman
Born: 3/10/1925
Father: Ernest Arthur (1882-1965)
Mother: Mary Hopkins (1883-1972)
Married: Arthur Graham Davies
(17/11/1924) in 1947
Children: Marion Rosina (1/2/1949),
Michael Graham (22/7/1957), and Barry John (7/5/1962)
Now lives in Brisbane, Australia
Betty, Mary Hopkins and Arthur
Ernest Arthur Hickman
Born: 1882
Died: 1956
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Married: Mary Amelia
Hopkins in 1907
Children: Ernest (1909),
Lillian (Sis) (1914), Louisa Ellen (Nell) (1920), Elizabeth (1925) and Christopher
(1922)
Mary and Ernest
Ernest Arthur Hickman
Born: 1909
Died: 1967
Father: Ernest
Mother: Mary Hopkins (1883)
Married: Doris V Johns in
1935
Children: Anthony A (1943)
Lillian M (Sis) Hickman
Born: 26/4/1914
Died: 7/8/1993
Father: Ernest Hickman
Mother: Mary Hopkins (1883)
First Marriage: Raymond
Guest in 1940 (divorced)
Children: Maureen
15/11/1941
Second Marriage: Albert
‘Bert’ Arnold (1923) in 1955
Sis and Bert
Louisa Ellen Hickman
Born: 1920
Died: unknown
Father: Ernest
Mother: Mary Hopkins
Married: Alfred Gerald
Camelia (9/2/1922-1995) in 1943
Children: Alan J (1952)and
Patricia E (1949)
Maria Hickman
Born: unknown
Father: Anthony Hickman
(1943)
Mother: Isabella
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