Personnel Profile
Robert Hichens
Coastal forces officer
Robert Hichens served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during second world war. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with motor torpedo boat command and coastal warfare. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Robert Hichens belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.