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• Name: Georgius Rellinger
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39635
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1868, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; RC
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Town
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1921, 103 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

George married Louise Spitzig 8 Sep 1868, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Louise (daughter of Peter Anton Spitzig and Katharina "Catharine" Faulhaber) was born CALC 14 Jan 1844; died 1 Aug 1881, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario; was buried , Saint Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery, Maryhill, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

George married Mary Ann Beck 24 Oct 1881, Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Bernhard Beck and Lisett "Elizabeth" Von Hatten) was born 17 Jan 1849, Pilkington Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 6 Mar 1932, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Boniface Roman Catholic Cemetery, Maryhill, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-232936
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; RC
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cabinet Maker
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1894, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States; Cabinet Maker

John married Annie Aspenleiter 30 Jan 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Annie (daughter of John Aspenleiter and Wilhelmina, daughter of John Aspenleiter and Emilia Thersia Buehl) was born 1866, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-118023
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Blacksmith
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-118024
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-118025
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39637
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Seamstress

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• Name: Theresa Wilhelmina Hickson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39638
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Polish Maker
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

Theresa married George Henry Hickson 25 Feb 1908, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. George (son of Alfred Hickson and Elizabeth Howe) was born 19 Nov 1886, Wabaushene, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Mar 1965, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39639
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39640

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-184501
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Name: Harry Hickson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-187987
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Name: Mildred Elizabeth Bews
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-187988
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

Mildred — George A. Bews. George was born 1906; died 1978; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lillian Mary Sievenpiper
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-225629

Lillian — Perlous Wesley Sievenpiper. Perlous (son of Franklin "Frank" Sievenpiper and Lottie Elizabeth Becker) was born 23 Oct 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Jul 2003, Ontario, San Bernardino, California, USA; was buried , Crestlawn Memorial Park, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW2 - R. C. A. M. C.
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-127456

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• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-225625
• Residence: 1953, 36 Herlan Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Sgt. Hickson Blasted Nazis

Casino Was Object Of His Attack; Two Men War Prisoners
Sept. 18, 1942

Two Twin City men are listed as prisoners of war and one is mentioned especially for bravery in today's Dieppe news.

Prisoners of war are:
Lieut. Arthur Breihaupt, Calgary Tank Regiment.
Pte. Alonzo Grant, Central Ontario Regiment

The hero, who returned safely to England, is Lance-Sgt. George E. Hickson of the 7th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers. News of Lieut. Breithaupt's and Pte. Grant's capture came through
the International Red Cross.

STILL AWAITING WORD

No further word has been received concerning five other Twin City men who saw action in the big raid and have been officially reported as missing. They are Sgt. Harry Basil, Pte. George Frederick Hoch, Cpl. George Teasdale, Pte. William John Irven and Pte. Carl Joseph Fuja.

Sgt. Hickson and Lieut.-Col. C. C. I. Merritt, the latter of Belleville, officer commanding the South Saskatchewan Regiment, who is missing, are mentioned jointly in the statement from the Defence Department at Ottawa. It reads:

"Where all were brave, it is diffcult and perhaps invidious to quote individual cases of gallantry," said the department, "but two such instances are mentioned here merely as examples of the manner in which Canadian officers and men maintained the traditions of the Canadian army and the honor of their country."

When Col. Merritt's battalion was held up by fire at a bridge on which many men had fallen, he walked back and forth across the structure waving his helmet and calling, "See, there is no danger here." Then he led his men across and cleared enemy positions on the other side.

BLASTED CASINO

"He led detachments against strong road blocks, personally disposed of a sniper and led parties against machine-gun posts. When last seen he was gathering weapons and organizing a defensive position to cover the withdrawal of the last parties of his unit.

"Sgt. Hickson was assigned to a demolition job in the town and, unable to go to it directly, attached himself to an infantry platoon. When the platoon's officer and senior non- commissioned officers were put out of action, he took command and led it to the Casino which he entered by blasting a hole through a wall.

"With another charge he blew in the steel door of a concrete gun emplacement inside the Casino and killed the gun crew. He destroyed a six-inch naval gun and two machine guns, then reorganized the rest of the platoon and led them against heavy opposition into the town. He was one of the last men evacuated from the beach."

PATRIOTIC FAMILY

Sgt. Hickson is a member of a patriotic family. His father, George H. Hickson of 42 Troy Street served for three years in the First Great War. Four sons in the family are in the armed forces while the other is waiting for his 18th birthday to come so he too can enlist.

Those on active service besides Sgt. George are Flight-Sgt. Harry of the R.C.A.F., who is somewhere in Alaska; Pte. Gordon who is on the Military Hospital staff at Shelburne, Nova Scotia and expects to be transferred shortly to the Irish Guards Regiment; Pte. Robert who. went overseas with the Highland Light Infantry two years ago, and Gerald, 17, who has sought enlistment in both the navy and the air force and will go to the branch of the service that calls him first. Gerald is a member of the 24th Field Ambulance (Reserve).

STUDIED COMMANDO WORK

Sgt. George enlisted in 1940 after serving seven years with the Scots Fusiliers of Canada (Reserve) and gaining much experience as a sergeant-instructor. He joined the Royal Canadian Engineers and, according to letters received by his wife, who lives at 111 Victoria South, and his parents, he has studied commando work for the past four months. His father received. a letter two months ago stating that he "was back in England again" but none of the family has received word as to where he had been.

The Hicksons heard from George by postcard yesterday. He thanked his young brother Gerald for some
"cigs" and promised to write as much as possible very soon. (over) "George is a modest boy, rather quiet. If he was back row, you would have a hard job getting him to talk about himself," his father, George H. Hickson, told a Record. reporter today while his wife searched the house for pictures of
the boys.

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Helped Take 26 Prisoners

Now Full Sergeant, Kitchener Soldier Tells of Big Raid - Sept 29, 1942

By WILLIAM STEWART SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. Sept. 29.-(CP)

"Come to think of it now - Dieppe was a lot of fun," says Sgt. George Hickson in the manner of a man who derives modest satisfaction from a difficult job well done.

Hickson was a lance-sergeant when he went to Dieppe with a picked group from the 7th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers.

He's a full sergeant now with his third stripe only a bare six inches above two sets of Nazi bullet holes in the left sleeve of his battledress. He's not wearing the trousers that had the right knee ripped by another bullet.

BRAND NEW UNIFORM

"They just about ruined my uniform, and it was brand new too," says the 28-year-old soldier from Kitchener, Ont.

"But the experience of Dieppe was worth months of training, for me at least, and probably the rest of the boys."

(Canadian National Defence headquarters, in a statement released by Defence Minister Ralston on Sept. 18, mentioned Sgt. Hickson, along with Lieut.-Col. C. C. I. Merritt of Vancouver, as two examples of the "manner in which Canadian officers and men maintained the traditions of the Canadian army and the honor of their country." Col. Merritt has been reported a prisoner of war.)

Hickson, who is married and the father of two small sons and has four brothers in the Canadian forces, arrived in Britain in June, 1940. He went through combined operations training before the Dieppe operation and was given a special mission to accomplish in the French town when the Canadians struck.

LED PARTY OF SIX

He would be satisfied to describe his part in the operation with one sentence: "The 6½ hours seemed to take only about an hour."

But from persistent questions it develops that he led a party made up of a lance-corporal and five sappers who were to be covered by a party of infantrymen while their assignment was carried out.

Three members of Hickson's party and a number of the covering party were cut down by German fire as they landed from an assault craft on the beach in front of Dieppe's casino.

They raced through barbed wire half-way up the beach, crouched for a moment behind a seawall two feet high at that spot and then broke through a gap that had been made in barbed wire above the seawall by troops from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry preceding them.

"A pillbox sitting on the esplanade was in our way to the casino and we had to wipe it out with grenades," says Hickson.

LONDON OFFICER HURT

Lieut. John Webster of London, Ont., who commanded the infantrymen protecting the party of engineers, was wounded and Hickson took charge. Hickson says when his party got inside the casino they found Canadians and other units were racing about knocking out Germans and taking prisoners,

"We took 26 prisoners," says Hickson. "Some of them gave up easily, but one particularly fought like hell. He had a little spot in a doorway surrounded by sandbags and he kept rolling grenades at us across the floor.

"The grenades looked something like tops and the Germans made them roll around us in a semi- circle from behind the sand bags. "Every time one went off it lifted us about a foot off the floor."

DRAW OUT BAYONETS

"The German was well-concealed all this time and safe from our fire so cold steel was the only solution. We got our bayonets out but he saw them and that was enough-out he came,"

Hickson said at no time during the operation did he see any Nazi use a bayonet of course, if they had we would have cleaned them up with ours."

After helping get the rest of the Germans in the casino out of the way, the four remaining members of the little engineers party split up. The lance-corporal-ignoring a wounded foot-took one sapper with him while Hickson took the other and they set out from the casino with a covering party now made up of men of various infantry units.

"They had been at work in the casino and I picked them up as they came along." explains Hickson. "They made a formidable little platoon.

AMMUNITION GETS LOW

"We scouted the edge of the casino and worked our way into town about two blocks almost to the cathedral. We had to stop because our ammunition was getting low and the town was full of snipers.

"But we destroyed telephone lines and electric cables as we went along to damage their communications as much as we could."

Hickson says that while his party was on its way back to the casino, he heard a signal for the reembarkation. In the casino his party and other Canadians placed their packs in a pile with an explosive charge and a time fuse.

They boarded, an assault craft, bailed with their helmets when it started to sink and then a number transferred to another craft which came along.

"We manned the guns for a while as our craft went about to others to help get wounded to destroyers. Another fellow and I volunteered to accompany a party returning to the beach to pick up wounded but were refused permission."

On the way home aboard a destroyer, Hickson says Nazi aircraft machine-gunned and bombed them wounding a number more.

"I think the raid taught us a lot things that can't be learned by just training," says Hickson reflectively. "I hope I get another one."

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George — Marion H. Potworka. Marion was born 1909; died 1997; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Misfortune: France; killed in WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-225624
• Residence: 1941, 69 Krug St., Kitchener, Ontario

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PTE. ROBERT HICKSON

Pte. Hickson is a younger brother of Sgt. George Hickson, winner of the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal. His parents had been out, and on their return to their home last night found the telegram awaiting them.

Born in Kitchener, Pte. Hickson would have been 23 next month. He was fond of hunting and fishing. He began his military experience at the age of 16 when he joined the Scots Fusiliers reserve unit. He left his work with the Bell Telephone Co. to join the H. L. I. in May, 1940. He had been overseas, three years.

In addition to George, there are three other brothers in the service. Flt. Sgt. Harry is serving with the R.C.A.F. in the Yukon; LAC. Gerald is stationed with the R.C.A.F. on the east coast, and Pte. Gordon is with the Irish Regiment, medical section, in Italy.

Six air-mail letters received from Gordon today have cheered his parents considerably. He mentions having a short note from Bob recently.

In his most recent letter, Bob enclosed a card which indicated that the men tad received communion just before the invasion began.

Surviving in addition, to his parents and brothers are three sisters: Mrs. George Begs, Homewood Ave., Mrs. Pearlous Sievenpiper, Simeon St., and Kathryn at home.

The Kitchener Daily Record

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• Name: Kathryn Theresa "Kay" Solomon
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-402181

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SOLOMON, Kathryn (nee Hickson) Kathryn passed away peacefully in her 90th year, at Lanark Heights Long Term Care Kitchener on Sunday, December 4, 2016. Predeceased by her husband Russell (1999); her parents George Hickson Sr. and Theresa (Rellinger); brothers Harry, George, Gordon, Robert and Gerald; sisters Lillian Sievenpiper and Mildred Bews. Kathryn is survived by her daughters Dianne Musselman (Lenny), Barbara Reichert (Ken) and Judy Blackman (Aubyn); her grandchildren Brent Voll (Carli), Cheri Bornais (Darren), Christopher Awender, Barry (Michelle), Sonia and Tasha Blackman; her great-grandchildren Rayne, Ashton and Zoe Awender, Grace and Sophie Bornais, Emma and Lilly Voll and Jayden Blackman. Also survived by her sister-in-law Eileen Hickson as well as her many nieces and nephews. Lovingly remembered by Christine Awender, LeighAnne Voll and David Roth. Kathryn was a member of the Catholic Women's League for over 70 years. She worked nearly 20 years at J.M. Schneider and part-time at Jessop Cleaners. She had many interests which included fishing, snooker, bowling, gardening, crossword puzzles and reading. She had a real love of animals, especially dogs. She was always happiest when she received visits from her children and grandchildren. There will be no visitation. A Funeral Mass to celebrate Kathryn's faith and life will be held at St. Louis R.C. Church 53 Allen Street E., Waterloo on Friday, December 9, 2016 at 11 a.m. with Fr. Phil Reilly C.R. officiating. Cremation has already taken place. A reception will be held in the Fireside Room of the Erb and Good Family Funeral Home , 171 King St. S., Waterloo following the Mass. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society of Canada or Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family and may be arranged by contacting the funeral home at www.erbgood.com or 519-745-8445. Thank you to the wonderful caring staff at Lanark Heights where Kathryn resided for the past year and to the caring staff at St. Mary's Hospital.

"Obituary Of Kathryn Theresa Solomon | Erb & Good Family Funeral Home". 2022. Erbgood.Com. https://erbgood.com/tribute/details/13201/Kathryn-Solomon/obituary.html.

Kathryn married Russell Joseph Solomon CA 1947. Russell (son of Albert Gustave Solomon and Martha Barbara Bialkowski) was born 8 Mar 1927, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Jun 1999, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Parkview Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-405725

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210638365
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183435
• Residence: 1953, 36 Herlan Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Larry Hickson

Larry Stanley Hickson, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hickson, 36 Herland Ave., died today at the K-W Hospital. He had been ill about a month. He was born Aug. 8, 1938, in Kitchener. His father and mother, the former Marion Helen Potwarka survive. He was a member of St. John's RC Church. Also surviving are one brother, George and two sisters, Marnie and Catherine, all at home. The body is at the Gruhn Funeral Home where the rosary will be recited Friday night at 8:30 o'clock. Prayers will be said Saturday at 8:30 a.m. followed by mass at St. John's Church at 9 a.m. Rev. William Gleason will officiate. Interment will follow in [bottom of obituary was not photocopied]

Kitchener-Waterloo 16 Apr 1953

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-405726

Dianne — Lenny Musselman. [Group Sheet]

Judy — Aubyn Blackman. [Group Sheet]

Barbara — Kenneth Reichert. [Group Sheet]