WICKS, Richard Alexander
| Service Number: | 3157 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 January 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 39th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 26 September 1898 |
| Home Town: | Ripponlea, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 September 1966, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3157, 39th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3157, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3157, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne | |
| 11 Jan 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3157, 39th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Port Darwin | |
| 26 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3157, 39th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Richard Alexander Wicks (Service No:3157) enlisted in the AIF on 3 January 1917, and was attached to 39th Infantry Battalion on 19 February 1917 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Devonport on board HMAT A70 Ballarat. Private Wicks embarked from England for Melbourne on 11 January 1918 on board HT Port Darwin, and was attached to 39th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 26 April 1918 (Defective Eyesight).
Dick was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1898, eldest of four children of Richard Charles Wicks (b1871 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Lillian Alice Davidson (b1873 in Melbourne, Victoria). Richard (a Tailor) and Lillian (a Tailoress) married in 1897 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and both ran the Tailor Shop (trading as BC Wicks & Co).
Dick was a Salesman in Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF, and following his Discharge, returned to Melbourne where he was working as a Salesman in 1922 when he married his first wife Ivy Lillian Young (b1900 in Christchurch, New Zealand). Dick and Ivy settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Dick worked as a Salesman and Driver until the late 1920s when he bacame a Market Gardener/Nurseryman/Florist (later in partnership with son Bruce). Following Ivy's death in 1960, Dick remarried in 1961 to Doris Margaret Hingston (b1911 in Penguin, Tasmania) - Doris had moved to Melbourne in 1943 and was working as a Machinist. Dick died in 1966 and Doris in 2013.