2016 C Company Project – Newspaper series seeking final resting places of soldiers
What ever happened to ANGUS ALBERT HICKEY?
Editor’s Note: MacNaught History Centre & Archives is very close to completing the profiles of the men of C Company, 105th Battalion. The 2016 project has extended into the year 2017 and there are only a few of the soldiers on the C Company list who have eluded the research efforts of staff and key volunteer, Louise Morris. Anyone who might have information on the date and place of death of the men featured in this series is urged to contact the MacNaught History Centre at 75 Spring Street, Summerside.
Angus Hickey (712105) signed up in October, 1915 as a member of the 82nd Regiment, Abegweit Light Infantry.
When it was announced that Prince Edward Island was granted permission to recruit a full regiment, the men who enlisted in the autumn of 1915 were transferred to the 105th Battalion, the only one raised on P.E.I. during the First World War. Pte. Hickey completed his training with C Company, went to Valcartier, Quebec in June 1916, but, when it came time for the battalion to embark by ship from Halifax, he was declared “absent” according to his military record.
He apparently found his way to the United States where he showed up on a draft registration and then married Ruby Reynolds in Maine in 1920. He married Florence Haszard in New Hampshire in 1934 and his name appeared on the US WW2 draft in 1942. He had no known children. Angus (b.1895) grew up in Glenwood, P.E.I., the son of Angus Hickey and Alice Boulter and had the following brothers: John, Henry, Nelson, Lester, Carl and Garnet. His sisters were Alice, Lillian, Alfreda, Beatrice, and Elsie, the latter’s obituary in 1978 not listing him as a survivor. His date and place of death is still to be discovered.