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Note: Kept a wonderful garden where they lived in Chichester. A quiet, upright, gently humorous sort of man. Uncle Wilf. From the Chichester Observer 23.3.1979 "A nostalgic reminder of West Wittering" [re a submission by his cousin John Allman C.O.2.3.1979]
"...Mr Trickey left school at 14, in 1928, and joined the private training ship 'Mercury' which belonged to C.B.Fry, the cricketer at Hamble.
After a year he joined the Royal Navy at Gosport and spent some time abroad before his discharge after suffering from rheumatic fever in July , 1936.
He volunteered for service when World War II started, but was turned down, so he took a course in Southampton as an aircraft fitter/assembler. He then worked for the Blackburn Aircraft Company, at Dumbarton, Scotland, until
1945.
He has worked since then for D.Rowe and Company, at The Hornet, Chichester, and is due to retire this year."
Presume he met Jeanette in Dumbarton?
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