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From the Guest book at Owlden, Haslemere
Arthur was the last of 9 children born in Owlden.
Now aged 86 he was born in 1892.
His mother remembered Tennyson in cloak & slouch Hat "Wide awake cap" striding along the footpath which then ran along the ditch between our fields & and crossed into Surrey.
Bicknell's Father was a woodsma to Sir Richard Garton, who looked over the Leigth Hill estate of which Owlden and it's land was then part.
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Lived in Owlden (Howlden?), part of the Lythe Hill Estate for 44 years.
From Paper cutting
Arbituary
Death of Mr W Bicknell
His many friends have learned With much regret of the death of Mr. William Bicknell of No. 1 Haste Hill Heslemere, which took place at is home on Saturday at the great age of 90 years.
He had been ailing for some months but only took to his bed a fortnight before he died.
Until a month before his death he was seen about the town and was quite his cheery self.
Mr. Bicknell was one of the oldest inhabitants of this district. Born at Hembledon, he had lived most of his life at Haslemere, including 44 years at Howelden, on the Lythe Hill Estate, and since 1927 in the house where he died.
Like his father , the late Mr. Peter Bicknell, he was aold servant of Lythe Hill Estate where he worked as a woodman - both under Mr. Stewart Hodgson and Mr Richard Garton - for over 60 years.
He was also one of the oldest members of the local branch of the Modern Orderer of Foresters.
Mr. Bicknell was very interested in cricket and particularly in the matches which were formerly played in Lythe Hill Park.
His wife died about eight years ago and he is survived by five sons, 19 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Two of his sons pre-deceased him and his two daughters died in infancy.
The funeral took place at the Parish Church on Wednesday afternoon, the Rector (Canon S. Martin Jones) conducting the service.
The chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bicknell, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bicknell (son's and daughters-in-law), Mr. William Bicknell, Mr. Leonard Bicknell and Mr. Harry Bicknell (sons), Mrs. Harvey, Mrs. Burchett, Mrs. Albery and Mrs.May Bicknell (grand-daughters), Mr. Allen Bicknell and Mr. Thomas Bicknell (brothers), Mr. and Mrs, Herbert Bicknell (brother and sister-in-law), Mr. AND Mrs. W. H. Booth (brother-in-law and sister). Others present in, the church included Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Coombes, Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Johnson.
Beautiful floral tributes were sent by the following:- Allen and Lizzie; Will and Kate; Grandad, Willie and Bert; Alf and Meg; brother Tom; Arthur and Lily; Herbert and Tilly; Rene and Fred (grandchildren); Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Howard and S. C. Howard; Will Ethel and Grandson; Harry, Alice and Family (Farncombe); Mrs. F. J. Barlow
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On gravestone in St Bartholomews Church, Haslemere, Surrey
Gone but not forgotten.
Dear husband I have left thee and much I wished to go to the land prepared by christ for us, where joy forever flows.
It was his will to take me and take away my pain
and that I trust my prayers were not offered up in vain
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From Gravesone in St Bartholomews Church, Haslemere, Surrey.
We have to mourn the loss of those we did our best to save.
Beloved on earth, remembered in their grave.
In death they were not divided.
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Paper cutting of William's diamond anniversary
Thomas was landlord of the Woolpack Inn at Elstead.
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Paper cutting of William's diamond anniversary
A bricklayer in London
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Joined ICI 1960 as Electrical Design Engineer,retired early at 57,doing a
partime job until 65 & retirement with plenty of golf.
Details of R.A.F. Service.
---------------------------
04/01/39 Cardington Bedfordshire initial discipline and drill instruction.
06/03/39 9 Bomber Sqdn Stradishall Suffolk.(first Sqdn with Wellington Bomber)
29/04/39 2w S.ofTT.Henlow Bedfordshire,Trade training Elect2.
3 SEPT 1939 11 AM.Outbreak of W.W.2.
12/01/40 Posted to 235 Sqdn Manston Kent (Fairy Battles)
24/04/40 Sqdn moved to North Coates North Yorkshire,Re-equipped with Blenheim
Fighters (Operation Training)
06/05/40 Sqdn moved to Bircham Newton Norfolk. (Operational training ).
21/08/40 R.A.F. Hospital Ely Cambridgeshire.(Emergency appendix opp)
28/09/40 Moved to convalesant unit at Blackpool before discharge back to unit.
14/12/40 3W 11 S.ofTT Credenhill Herefordshire.Re-muster Elect 1.
18/04/41 S.of TT.Halton Buckinghamshire.(Instructors Course).
26/05/41 404 Sqdn Thorney Island Hampshire. Canadian Aircrew,begining
oppertional training on Blenheim Fighters,(the same aircraft from 235 Sqdn now
oppertional,I knew them all), all other personell were R.A.F. Sqdn moved to
Castletown Nr Thurso,off Dunnet Bay,then to Skitton a few miles south then to
Dyce Nr Aberdeen.
16/10/41 Re-called off leave,posted to P.T.C. Padgate moved to P.T.C. Wilmslow
issued with tropical kit entrained to Greenock and boarded SS Narkunda.
11/11/41 Sailed from Greenock in large convoy of troopships with escort of
destroyers and battleship.Called at Freetown,Sierra Leone,West Africa. No
shore leave,typical tropical scene but the scent from the land terrible.
07/12/41 Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.U.S.A.enter W.W.2.
17/12/41 Arrive Durban and dock,R.A.F.hurriedly trans-shipped to MV.Indrapora
24/12/41 Left Durban
08/01/42 Arrived Bombay anchored in bay,beatiful view of islands and Bombay.
10/01/42 Moved to dock allowed ashore for two hours,pungent aroma?.
15/01/42 P.T.C. Shaiba Iraq
17/01/42 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Basrah.At the camp alongside the Shat el Arab
river is a W.W.1 War Memorial of those who died in Mesopotamia.(now Iraq)
08/11/42.Posted to 5152 (Mech/Elect)Sqdn,Aberdan Oil Refinery,Iran.
Building new boiler house,ancillary and high octane distillation plant in
conjunction with Kelloggs Engineering of U.S.A.,remustered Fitter Gen for this
as were all personnell on the Sqdn.
06/04/43 Posted to 5053 Sqdn Quadima Heliopolis Cairo, via overland convoy
through Iraq,Jordan to rest camp in Palestine(now Isreal) near Haifa,then by
train to Heloun South of Cairo,Eygpt.
09/11/43 Posted to R.A.F.Stn.Abu Suir and internally detached to Works
Directorate(Works&Bricks) as my trade is still on my records as Fitter Gen.
although it should be Elect1,my job here was supervising and training native
labour in electrical work of all types,which included the power station.
26/06/44 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Fayid, again with W&B which was on the adjoining
camp H.M.S.Phoenix,whih was a Naval P.T.C.
30/07/44 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Shandur,(at last my records have caught up now
Elect1) a South African Unit converting pilots to Baltimore and Marauder
Aircraft.This station is a few miles north of Suez on the Little Bitter Lake,
the other stations are also in the canal area,as is my next move towards home.
SAT.MAY 7 1945 V.E.DAY (Victory in Europe.Ceasation of Hostilities).
16/07/45. 21 P.T.C.Kasfereet:-A few miles north alongside the road from Suez
to Ismalia at the northern of the Great Bitter Lake is the WW1.ANZAC MEMORIAL.
TUES.14 AUGUST 1945 V.J.DAY (Victory in Asia Japan surrender).In England
WED 15 and THUR 16 were declared holidays for celebration.
00/8/45 Left 21 PTC,to join troopship at Alexandria,sailed via Malta to Toulon
southern France,(The French navy scuttled some of their ships at Toulon in WW2
the super structures were above water.) where we went into a transit camp in a
vineyard for awhile,eventually we entrained to travel across France to Dieppe
where after a few days we sailed to Newhaven,then on to a transit camp by rail
22/08/45 Home leave,back to DEVON.(First day home heard landgirls shouting my
name now one is my Wife.) At the end of my leave I joined 254Sqdn at Chivenor
near Barnstable,the Sqdn moved to Langham in Norfolk.
22/1/46 Posted to 100 PDC Uxbridge for release from R.A.F.
23/1/46 Back in civvy street with 101 days leave.
Joined ICI 1960 as Electrical Design Engineer,retired early at 57,doing a
partime job until 65 & retirement with plenty of golf.
Details of R.A.F. Service.
---------------------------
04/01/39 Cardington Bedfordshire initial discipline and drill instruction.
06/03/39 9 Bomber Sqdn Stradishall Suffolk.(first Sqdn with Wellington
Bomber)
29/04/39 2w S.ofTT.Henlow Bedfordshire,Trade training Elect2.
3 SEPT 1939 11 AM.Outbreak of W.W.2.
12/01/40 Posted to 235 Sqdn Manston Kent (Fairy Battles)
24/04/40 Sqdn moved to North Coates North Yorkshire,Re-equipped with
Blenheim
Fighters (Operation Training)
06/05/40 Sqdn moved to Bircham Newton Norfolk. (Operational training ).
21/08/40 R.A.F. Hospital Ely Cambridgeshire.(Emergency appendix opp)
28/09/40 Moved to convalesant unit at Blackpool before discharge back to
unit.
14/12/40 3W 11 S.ofTT Credenhill Herefordshire.Re-muster Elect 1.
18/04/41 S.of TT.Halton Buckinghamshire.(Instructors Course).
26/05/41 404 Sqdn Thorney Island Hampshire. Canadian Aircrew,begining
oppertional training on Blenheim Fighters,(the same aircraft from 235
Sqdn now
oppertional,I knew them all), all other personell were R.A.F. Sqdn moved
to
Castletown Nr Thurso,off Dunnet Bay,then to Skitton a few miles south
then to
Dyce Nr Aberdeen.
16/10/41 Re-called off leave,posted to P.T.C. Padgate moved to P.T.C.
Wilmslow
issued with tropical kit entrained to Greenock and boarded SS Narkunda.
11/11/41 Sailed from Greenock in large convoy of troopships with escort of
destroyers and battleship.Called at Freetown,Sierra Leone,West Africa. No
shore leave,typical tropical scene but the scent from the land terrible.
07/12/41 Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.U.S.A.enter W.W.2.
17/12/41 Arrive Durban and dock,R.A.F.hurriedly trans-shipped to
MV.Indrapora
24/12/41 Left Durban
08/01/42 Arrived Bombay anchored in bay,beatiful view of islands and
Bombay.
10/01/42 Moved to dock allowed ashore for two hours,pungent aroma?.
15/01/42 P.T.C. Shaiba Iraq
17/01/42 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Basrah.At the camp alongside the Shat el Arab
river is a W.W.1 War Memorial of those who died in Mesopotamia.(now Iraq)
08/11/42.Posted to 5152 (Mech/Elect)Sqdn,Aberdan Oil Refinery,Iran.
Building new boiler house,ancillary and high octane distillation plant in
conjunction with Kelloggs Engineering of U.S.A.,remustered Fitter Gen for
this
as were all personnell on the Sqdn.
06/04/43 Posted to 5053 Sqdn Quadima Heliopolis Cairo, via overland convoy
through Iraq,Jordan to rest camp in Palestine(now Isreal) near Haifa,then
by
train to Heloun South of Cairo,Eygpt.
09/11/43 Posted to R.A.F.Stn.Abu Suir and internally detached to Works
Directorate(Works&Bricks) as my trade is still on my records as Fitter
Gen.
although it should be Elect1,my job here was supervising and training
native
labour in electrical work of all types,which included the power station.
26/06/44 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Fayid, again with W&B which was on the
adjoining
camp H.M.S.Phoenix,whih was a Naval P.T.C.
30/07/44 Posted to R.A.F.Stn Shandur,(at last my records have caught up
now
Elect1) a South African Unit converting pilots to Baltimore and Marauder
Aircraft.This station is a few miles north of Suez on the Little Bitter
Lake,
the other stations are also in the canal area,as is my next move towards
home.
SAT.MAY 7 1945 V.E.DAY (Victory in Europe.Ceasation of Hostilities).
16/07/45. 21 P.T.C.Kasfereet:-A few miles north alongside the road from
Suez
to Ismalia at the northern of the Great Bitter Lake is the WW1.ANZAC
MEMORIAL.
TUES.14 AUGUST 1945 V.J.DAY (Victory in Asia Japan surrender).In England
WED 15 and THUR 16 were declared holidays for celebration.
00/8/45 Left 21 PTC,to join troopship at Alexandria,sailed via Malta to
Toulon
southern France,(The French navy scuttled some of their ships at Toulon
in WW2
the super structures were above water.) where we went into a transit camp
in a
vineyard for awhile,eventually we entrained to travel across France to
Dieppe
where after a few days we sailed to Newhaven,then on to a transit camp by
rail
22/08/45 Home leave,back to DEVON.(First day home heard landgirls
shouting my
name now one is my Wife.) At the end of my leave I joined 254Sqdn at
Chivenor
near Barnstable,the Sqdn moved to Langham in Norfolk.
22/1/46 Posted to 100 PDC Uxbridge for release from R.A.F.
23/1/46 Back in civvy street with 101 days leave.
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B Sc in Biochemistry/Human Phsycology
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This family were living at 107 Corporation St Chorley in 13 Feb 1912
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I beleive Agnes comes from the GLENCLOE area and her nephew corporal Nichols
was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the retreat at Dunkirk
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Served in the A.T.S. during World War 2 as an Officer,at one time stationed
in Cairo Egypt where we met several times
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Mary was housekeeper for sister Eliza Prawl who was a dressmker at 41 High St
Crediton (1881 Census)
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Master Tailor:- Served in the Royal Artillery,Service number 130386, as Gnr
during the 1914-1918 Great War(W.W.1).After discharge he returned to the
family business and joined brother Charles,the business deteriorated when
"Off the PEG"clothes became available,in 1927 he left the business to run a
small farm and Grist Mill at Hellions MILL near Sandford on the river Creedy
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Bachelor;Sister Sarah Mills Bicknell was his housekeeper, she died in 1870.
He lived at 96 St Lawrence Green Crediton
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Master Tailors George and James ran the business together from 1873.
From Kelly's Directory 1889 James was no longer in the business thus when
George died in 1917 Charles was on war work at Barnstable building concrete
boats and my father Ralph was in France with the Royal Artillary so from
Kelly's Directory 1919 Archibald was in at 101 High St .
The only Archibald I can trace is the grandson of George's elder brother
William Henry Prawl who moved to Swansea between 1851&1855.