Name
Oliver Hickmott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/3822
Rifle Brigade
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES CEMETERY
C. 2847.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
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].
Recorded as born in Maidstone, Kent and was living in Watford when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
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.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Oliver’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
