Robert Ian Alexander Hickes
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Stained glass window in the church of Market Weighton

On 30th August 1918, 2nd Lt Robert Ian Alexander Hickes from Market Weighton was the pilot of a British bomber plane shot down over the tiny hamlet of Latour-en-Woëvre in occupied France. The observer/navigator was 2nd Lt Thomas Alfred Jones from Rainhill.  The two men were just 19. They were buried in the small village cemetery rather than in a military cemetery.
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Lt Hickes is commemorated on the WW1 war memorial plaque in the church of his village home, Market Weighton and his family had a beautiful stained glass window installed in his memory. ​
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