LYCETT, Robert Arthur

Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
5 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
North Staffordshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5047277
Died : 
Friday, February 4, 1944
Died on war service
Age: 
30
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Robert Lycett 5 Commando
Lance Corporal Robert Lycett from Amington, Staffordshire, died in hospital in India. Son of Robert Edward and Emma Lycett, of Ammington, Staffordshire; husband of Joyce Miriam Lycett, of Ammington; father to a 3 year old boy. Formerly employed at Tamworth Colliery. His brother, Leading Stoker Samuel Lycett, RN, aged 23, also died in the war when the battleship HMS Barham sank after being torpedoed on 25 November 1941.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/71.
Article and photo in the Tamworth Herald 26 February 1944.
 
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