Person    | Female  Born 10/1/1973  Died 26/12/2004

Claire Hickman

Categories: Tragedy

Countries: Southeast Asia

From The Times website we learn that Claire Vaughan was born on 10 January 1973. She was the daughter of John Vaughan (1947-1986) and Valerie Carroll Vaughan née Moody (1947-2004). 

In August 1994 she married David John Hickman (b.1967) in the St Albans Registration District, Hertfordshire.

Electoral registers in 2003 and 2004 show them listed at 15a Heath Road, St Albans, AL1 4DS.

The Times website shows that she, aged 31 years, and her husband were drowned on 26 December 2004 when their villa at the Royal Koko Palm Beach Hotel on the Thai island of Khao Lak was destroyed as they had breakfast. Her mother, who by then was remarried to an Andrew R. Awcock (b.1953), was also engulfed by water from the tsunami as they tried to run for safety from the beach, but only her step father-in-law survived.

She is shown as 'Claire Hickman' on the Tsunami memorial in the Darwin Garden Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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