HICKMAN, Keith Morton
| Service Number: | 20170 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | New Town, Tas., 6 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | New Town, Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | 12 August 1966, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 20170, 8th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 20 May 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 20170, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 20 May 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 20170, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Keith Morton Hickman was born on 6 August 1895 in New Town, Tasmania. He enlisted in the AIF on 27 January 1916 and was sent to the Western Front as part of the V3A Trench Mortar Battery. With his unit, Hickman served in both Flanders and the Somme, seeing action in Armentieres, Ypres, Passchendaele, Amiens, Villers Bretonneux and Hamel. Though he had many close calls with shell fire, gas, and shrapnel, Hickman made it to the end of the war without any serious injuries and returned to Australia in 1919. Shortly after the war, Keith Morton Hickman compiled the stories of his war experience into a diary, which is now part of the collection at the Australian War Memorial. The diary has been digitised as part of the Memorial’s Anzac Connections project, and can be viewed here https://bit.ly/2yB2lfr
“On July 4th the Australians and the Americans made an attack in front of Villers Bretonneux. It was very successful. The enemy seemed very much annoyed because he came over in large numbers of aeroplanes and machine gunned the roads and dropped bombs on the batteries and billets. One enemy plane dropped some very bright lights which lit up the country as bright as day.” bit.ly/2KkxBnE
“On July 7th I was diving in a lagoon and I forgot to take my teeth out. The result was that when I came up to the surface and opened my mouth to breathe, out fell my plate of teeth. The bottom of the lagoon was very muddy and although three good divers did their best to recover them we were unable to do so.” bit.ly/2KkxBnE
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