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Military service
Service number:
J/26912
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
440 Sqdn.
Death:
August 8, 1944
Village Claire-Tizon, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. H. 1.
Additional information
Son of Byron Erastus Hicks and Loretta (nee Essery) Hicks; husband of Agnes Isobel (nee Forbes) Hicks, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brother of Stanley, Dorothy and Mildred.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, France and Germany Star, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 1 January 1945.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
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Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks is also remembered in Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, ON - September 2017 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Exeter Cemetery - September 2017 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Memorial grave marker for Clifford Hicks, located in an Exeter, Ontario, cemetery. (Photo by Capt M. O'Leary, The RCR) -
Cenotaph
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks is also commemorated on the cenotaph in Exeter, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cenotaph
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks is also commemorated on the cenotaph in Exeter, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of Death
Circumstances of crash, LAC, Ottawa. -
Photo collage
LAC, Ottawa. -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Identification
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Clifford Waldron Hicks
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Attestation paper
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Photo of Clifford Waldron Hicks
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant Clifford Waldron Hicks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 334 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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