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SS110530 Stoker John Thomas Hickman Royal Navy born 1892
Naval Record 28th December 1910 signed for SS (Short service) engagement of 5+7 years.
Occupation: farm hand, place of birth Nottingham (sic). Height 5’9?”, chest 40”, Dark brown hair, hazel eyes.
No next of kin question.
Rating Ship date from date to notes
Stoker II Victory II 28 Dec 1910 21 Jan 1911 Shore base training establishment
Stoker II Renown 22 Jan 1910 18 march 1911 Battle Cruiser
Stoker II Victory II 19 March 1911 1 Aug 1911  
Stoker II/I Naiad 2 Aug 1911 10 Jan 1912 Mine laying Cruiser
Stoker I Prince of Wales 11 Jan 1912 12 May 1912 Battleship; Atlantic Fleet
Stoker I Victory II 13 may 1912 28 May 1912  
Stoker I Pembroke 29 May 1912 30 Aug 1912 Shore barracks
Stoker I Victory II 31 Aug 1912 27 Jan 1913  
Stoker I Neptune 28 Jan1913
9 Mar 1914 Dreadnought class battleship
Stoker I Victory II 10 Mar 1914 29 May 1914  
Stoker I/Acting Leading Stoker/Leading Stoker Dryad 30 May 1914 3 May 1918 Torpedo Boat, later fitted as Minesweeper.
Northern Patrol (Orkney and Shetland)
Then harbours based on Harwich.
See http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-22-HMS_Dryad.htm for daily log.
L/S Victory II 4 May 1918 3 Sept 1914  
  Hamadyad 4 sept 1918 13 June 1919 Seaman’s hospital in Cardiff
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hamadryad_Hospital
Transferred to RNVR
15 June 1919   Paid War Gratuity
Roll of Honour John is listed on the Bingham Roll of Honour but not on the AVL.

Family history etc

  John Thomas Hickman    
1892 Born 19/11/92 Bingham    
Census 1901 Living in Denton with:
Father: William b. 1860 Scarrington
Mother: Sarah (neé Palmer) b. 1862 Car Colston, Notts
Siblings:
Henry W b. 1884 Tithby, Notts
Edith b.1890 Twyford, Lincs
Clara E E b. 1898 Little Ponton, Lincs
Daisy E b. 1900 Denton

Waggoner on farm


Waggoner on farm
Census gives birthplace as Screveton
Census 1911 Royal Naval Barracks and Officers’ Quarters), Edinburgh Road, Portsmouth Stoker  
Census 1911 Family at Long Are Bingham
Census return gives full names:
William
Mother Sarah Elizabeth
Cara Emma Ellen
Daisy Ethel


Farm Labourer
 
Electoral Rolls 1923- 1928 William and Sarah Elizabeth (Father and Mother) at 6 Long Acre Row (occupied by the Wilsons in 21 and 22) with Clara from 1929
Some siblings in Bingham but John Thomas not recorded on ERs.
 
Bingham cemetery SE died 29/12/1935 aged 74 (Sarah Elizabeth?)  
Research note William Herbert and John Tomas Hickman may have been related but we can find no evidence on genealogy sites.  

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