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There is no substantiation for an MBE, no reference nor mention of MBE after his name in any entry
1895 Nov 15. Born Redruth, Cornwall.
1901 census at Fore Street Alma Place, Redruth
1911 census . I cannot find the family
1915 Feb 27. RGA . The undermentioned Cadets and ex-Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Eric William Thornton Hichens. Something odd then happens, he is commissioned again 2 years later. WO338 shows that they are both him.
1916 Jan 19. Temporary Second Lieutenant Eric W. T. Hichens relinquishes his commission. Dated 19th January, 1916.
1917 Jun 4. The undermentioned Cadets to be temp. 2nd Lts. RASC, Eric William Thornton Hichens
1917 Feb .MT in Mesopotamia. 788 COMPANY Sign: Rabbit. Date of arrival: February 1917 Officers.-A/Capts. S. S. Porritt, C. C. Holland; 2/ Lieuts. R. E. Pither, E. W. T. Hichens, H. B. Waddington, F. D. Crump. Operations : 1917. Sannayat, Kut-el-Amarah, Shumran, Tekrit, The Hai. 1918. Pai Tak, Persian L. of C., Tekrit
1918 Dec 8. The undermentioned temp. 2nd Lts. to be temp. Lts.: — E W T Hichens, RASC
1919 May 25. Relinquishes his commission. It looks as if he got it back again for North Russia.
1920 Jan 10 Arrives London from Bombay, He is a "banker accountant", has been last living in Mesopotamia. Travels 1st class.
1921 Apr 14. Promoted Lt
1921 Apr 29. NOTICE as hereby given., that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the"undersigned, Eric William Thornton Hichens and Ernest Probart Street, carrying on business as Foreign. Stamp Dealers, at 12A, Cromwell-mews, South Kensington, S.W., and 89, Farringdon-street, E.G., under the style or firm of HICHENS AND STREET, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 7th day of March, 1921. All debts due to the said late firm will be received by the said Ernest Probart Street.—
1921 Jun 14 . RASC. Temp. Lt. E. W. T. Hichens relinquishes his commission.
1921 Jun 14. Joined ADRIC with service no 2058. Posted to C Coy
1922 Jan 13. Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1925 Mar 29 Arrives Canada from UK . He is a "mechanic" , next of kin his uncle in Sheffield. He travels 3rd class and is single.
1934/1936 He is noted in Canadian Parliamentary Archives as an "Acting Detective"
1940 Mar 4. RASC to be Lt, : — Lt. Eric William Thornton HICHENS (122523), late R.A.S.C
1944 Oct 18. Lt. E. W. T. Hichens (122523) relinquishes his commn., and is re-granted the rank of Lt
1949 Jun 11, Died Vancouver, Canada.