The brother of James, Maurice resided in South East London and was conscripted into the 2^nd Battalion London Irish Rifles (who spent much of the war merged with the Royal Ulster Rifles).  Although it may seem strange that neither of the Rickard brothers lived in Filey their parents did; their mother Mabel was a Colley before she married, possibly connected to the Robert Colley who fell in the Great War and whose family were carters on West Parade for many years.

          Maurice died after seeing the victory at El-Alamein in late 1942 in a period when the Allies were forcing Rommel’s armies back towards the Mareth line in Tunisia.  This took from November 1942 to the middle of February 1943 and although less costly than the El-Alamein campaign still only happened with a great loss to the Allied forces.

          Maurice was buried in the Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery in  Tunisia.  The North African campaign was to cost Filey the loss of at least six men, including one made a prisoner of war.  Of these four belonged to the local militia groups.