16 Dec 2004 Husband: Howard WICKSTEED Born: 1883 in Axbridge, Somerset 1 Not living: Military: Lieutenant First Sixth Devon Regiment Territorial [Gentlemen of Independent Means] 1 Military: Aug 1914 Commissioned 6th Bn Devonshire Regiment 2 Father: Mother: Wife: Frieda Mary HICKING Married: Jun 1911 Born: 1891 Not living: Father: Mother: M Child 1: Binkie WICKSTEED F Child 2: Frieda Mary WICKSTEED Married name Tolstoy-Miloslovsky 3 died at age: 82 Born: 4 Nov 1915 at 3 Bath Terrace, Instow, North Devon Died: Mar 1998 in Perpignan 4 Event: Autumn 1938 in probable first meeting with Patrick O'Brian 5 Occupation: Sep 1939 joined London Auxiliary Ambulance Service 6 Resided: Autumn 1942 in The Cottage, off Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea 7 Occupation: 1943 Political Warfare Executive 8 Spouse: Dimitri Mihailovich, Count TOLSTOY b. 8 Nov 1912 Married: 1934 at Appledore Divorced: May 1942 in London 9 Spouse: Richard Patrick RUSS Nickname Pat 10b. 12 Dec 1914 d. 2 Jan 2000 Married: 5 Jul 1945 in Chelsea Register Office 11,12 Sources: (1) NT, 212. (2) NT, 213. (3) Shown as Wicksteed or Miloslovaska in Marriage Register to Richard Russ. (4) DK, 'In March 1998, Mary died in hospital in Perpignan', 389. (5) NT, 223. (6) NT, LAAS records do not preserve details of individual personnel .... the likelihood that my mother volunteered shortly after the declaration of war in September 1939. .... she chose Chelsea as the district in which to work. There she was attached to Station No. 22 at 18 Danvers Street, where she was issued with a uniform, gas mask, and steel helmet, and paid £2 for a six-day week. 241. (7) NT, 261, 275. (8) NT, In due course she joined him [Patrick] at Bush House. .... They served together in the French Section, which was headed by Dr Leslie Beck, a scholar of French literature. 279. (9) NT, My father somehow discovered that the couple were living together, and on May 12 1942 he tained a decree nisi in which Patrick was cited as co-respondent, the divorce being declared absolute in November. 256. (10) NT, 4. (11) DK, 'ten days later, Patrick and Mary married at the Chelsea Register Office', 104. (12) Jul - Sep 1945: to Miloslovaka or Wicksteed - Chelsea 1 a 976. Name Index