Family Search: When Private Herbert Charles Hickey was born on 25 September 1893, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Hickey, was 41 and his mother, Alice K. Morris, was 24. He immigrated to Canada in 1912 and lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as car inspector, Canadian Pacific Railway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He died on 9 April 1917, in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Estrée-Cauchy, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Newspaper Clipping – From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. Source: CVWM
Group Photo – Photo: Machine gun section, 82nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Calgary, Alberta. L-R back row: W. de Mandey; F. Hills; F. Telford; H. Clowes; L. Allison; H. Hickey; W. Smitherun; F. Wells; M. Birchenough; S. Brown. (All others in the photograph are unidentified.) + Herbert Charles Hickey (marked with X in the back row), was born in 1893 and killed at Vimy Ridge in 1917. He is buried in Quatre-Vents Military Cemetery in Estree-Cauchie, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was born in Bristol and had worked for the CPR in Calgary. Glenbow Archives credit. Source: CVWM
“Died of Wounds” During an attack near Vimy he was severely wounded by the explosion of an enemy shell that landed near him. He was attended to and taken to the Canadian Corps Main Dressing Station where he died.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 