In 1941, Jonathan Wickham’s father served as a sergeant in the 54th Nyasaland Field Battery during the Battle of Gondar. The battery fired 25-pounder howitzers with a standard range of about 5.4 miles (9,500 yards). Gondar fell on 14 November, 23 days before Pearl Harbor, helping complete Ethiopia’s liberation from Axis occupation. 🎖️
Jonathan Wickham retraces his father’s 1941 role in the Battle of Gondar
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Key facts
- Jonathan Wickham’s father served in the Royal Artillery’s 54th Nyasaland Field Battery, raised in Nyasaland (now Malawi), during the 1941 East African Campaign.
- The battery fought at Gondar on 13–14 November 1941, not in September.
- The battle began 24 days and ended 23 days before the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, not 10 days before.
- Ethiopia was the first independent African country liberated from Axis occupation.
- The battery’s 25-pounder howitzers had a standard maximum range of about 9,500 yards (8.7 km or 5.4 miles), not 9 miles.
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Jonathan Wickham (1735–1810)ancestors.familysearch.org
Jonathan Wickham was born in 1735, in Long Island, New York, United States. He married Susan Ann Wilkinson in Dutchess, New York, United States.
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