| Description | Written when Major Hickey was a Prisoner of War (PoW) in Offlag VIIC in Germany. Major Hickey had commanded 'B' Company 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment and had been taken prisoner during the Dunkirk campaign of 1940.
The personalities in the letter are as follows:
Tony: Lieutenant J A C Fitch. Later Lieutenant Colonel commanding 3rd Parachute Regiment. Killed in action at Arnhem, September 1944.
Pat: Lieutenant J P Dewar.
Jack: Captain later Lieutenant Colonel J M T F Churchill DSO, MC.
Tommy: Captain later Lieutenant Colonel E F Woolsey DSO
Levi: Major later Lieutenant Colonel F A Levis.
Mellor: Corporal Mellor.
Heason: Corporal Heason. Brother of John who became RSM and later Captain.
B: 'B' Company, which Major Hickey had commanded. |
