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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Sergeant Henry Hickey's heroism at the 2nd battle of Ypres and at Festubert is honoured in this account published in 1917 in "Canada in Khaki" magazine. This magazine was published for the Canadian War Records Office by the Montreal Star Publishing Co. Ltd., with net profits going to the Canadian War Memorials Fund.
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Portrait of Sgt. Henry W. Hickey. Source: William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto 1935, pg. 430.
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
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Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Henry Hickey
Henry Hickey British home child
Henry Hickey who was sent to Canada in 1902 by Barnardos on the Dominion. He died in WW1 and is commemorated at Vimy memorial .
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Sergeant Henry Hickey's heroism at the 2nd battle of Ypres and at Festubert is honoured in this account published in 1917 in "Canada in Khaki" magazine. This magazine was published for the Canadian War Records Office by the Montreal Star Publishing Co. Ltd., with net profits going to the Canadian War Memorials Fund.
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Portrait of Sgt. Henry W. Hickey. Source: William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto 1935, pg. 430.
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child
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Henry Hickey British home child Henry Hickey who was sent to Canada in 1902 by Barnardos on the Dominion. He died in WW1 and is commemorated at Vimy memorial .
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Page 19 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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