SILVER WAR BADGE (reverse numbered 162984), awarded to G/42233 PRIVATE BENJAMIN HICKMAN, L
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SILVER WAR BADGE (reverse numbered 162984), awarded to G/42233 PRIVATE BENJAMIN HICKMAN, LABOUR DEPOT, ROYAL WEST SURREY REGIMENT. Good Very Fine.
Badge accompanied by 6 pages of photocopied documents, including Hickman’s attestation and service papers and Silver War Badge roll, which confirm that Hickman, a barman by trade and aged 34 years and 361 days, originally enlisted on 23rd February 1916 and was discharged on 12th April 1917. Home address on service papers given as 7 Lundy Street, Fulham.
Hickman was discharged on 12/4/1917 as a result of “sickness”. I suspect that he was considered unfit for active service, his service papers noting that his physical development was “rather poor”, and that he had both a “slight spinal curvature”.
Hickman did not serve overseas and the Silver War Badge was his sole service award.