Fred VICKERY

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Service Numbers:	7788, 7788A
Enlisted:	5 September 1917, Enlisted at Charter Towers, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Charters Towers Queensland, Australia, 3 May 1895
Home Town:	Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tailor
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 March 1966, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Bassett Cemetery, Mackay, Qld Methodist Section 2, Line 9, Plot 8. Interred on 12 March 1966. Commemorated in the Queensland Garden of Remembrance Wall 3, Row E
Memorials:	Meadows Boys Roll of Honour, Meadows War Memorial, Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld

5 Sep 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7788, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Charter Towers, QLD
31 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 7788, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
31 Oct 1917:	Embarked Private, 7788, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Euripides, Sydney
26 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7788A, 15th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 1st Military District

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Son of William Vickery and Frances Jane Vickery nee Gauvin of Gauvin Street, Charters Towers, QLD.

Served his five year tailor apprenticeship with Palmer Tailor of Charters Towers' QLD

Commenced return to Australia on 16 October 1919 aboard HT Pakeha disembarking on 24 November 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Husband of Ellen Jane Vickery nee Knapman. Fred and Ellen married during 1928c.

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