Obituary of Brigadier Gilbert Hickey. Press cutting 19th April 1997

News cutting dated 19th April 1977 concerning the obituary of Brigadier Gilbert Hickey

a) A Daily Telegraph press cutting dated 19th April 1997 concerning the obituary of Brigadier Gilbert Hickey who earned the MC and Bar in the Burma campaign during WWII.

See also his gravestone at https://www.stmargaretshistory.org.uk/catalogue_item/gravestone-of-hickey-blayney-gilbert-1997

b) Handwritten notes concerning Royal British Legion St Margaret’s Branch about a meeting to be held to elect a replacement for Brigadier Hickey

Subject

Royal British Legion (44)

Date of creation

1977

Place

St Margaret's at Cliffe

Reference number

MARG.07243

Format

Text (691)

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Comments about this page

Thank you! You are right and I have corrected it. We also have an image of his gravestone at https://www.stmargaretshistory.org.uk/catalogue_item/gravestone-of-hickey-blayney-gilbert-1997.
I’m grateful for your help
Christine Waterman
St Margaret’s History Society
By Christine Waterman (11/05/2023)
I think the year should say 1997, rather than 1977. I lived next door to the Hickeys in Salisbury Rd during the late 1980s!
By Ann Davies (09/05/2023)