STICKLEY, Robert Arthur

Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14455863
Died : 
Friday, November 30, 1945
Died in service
Age: 
19
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Private Robert Stickley died on the 30th November 1945 from wounds received on the 19th November in a shooting accident on Brighton seafront [1][1a][2]
​His Father also died in the war. 38551 Corporal Albert William Stickley, 102 Field Coy., Royal Engineers, died in France on the 27th May, 1940 aged 42 and is remembered with honour at the Dunkirk Memorial [1].
 
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[1a] Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/100 and 101.
[2] Newspaper report in the The People - Sunday 02 December 1945 (British Newspaper Archive website).
 
Notes
A criminal court case of manslaughter followed [2].
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
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