Alfred John Wickett
My uncle Jack, as he was more commonly known, was born on 11th September 1917 in Lawhitton, Cornwall. He joined the Royal Navy as a stoker and served aboard a string of shore establishments and ships in the first two years of the war.
Sadly, Jack lost his life Serving His King and Country on 9th April 1942, when HMS Hollyhock was sunk by Japanese dive-bombers off the coast of Ceylon. He was twenty-four years old.
It is known that Jack won a number of medals during his short naval career, but what these were has yet to be discovered from family members. He is remembered with honour on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon. Husband of Gladys May Wickett, of Plymouth; son of Ernest and Ellen Wickett.