WICKER, Leslie Mervyn John
| Service Number: | NX25123 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lewisham, NSW, 21 April 1915 |
| Home Town: | Lidcombe, Auburn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Sudden collapse, Clarke Street, Lidcombe, NSW, 25 February 1951, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, New South Wales Garden of Remembrance (Rookwood Necropolis) |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX25123, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX25123, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of John Titus WICKER, 23 Clarke Street, Lidcombe, NSW
OBITUARY
Mr. L. M. J. Wicker
The death occurred unexpectedly at Berala, Lidcombe, on Sunday morning, of Mr . Leslie Mervyn John Wicker, 35, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wicker, of Garden Island, Sydney. The late Mr. Wicker had been in the best of health and was returning home after purchasing his Sunday papers when he collapsed and died. He had served in the A.I.F. during the last world war, was a POW at Singapore and had worked on the infamous Burma-Thailand railway. On his return from overseas he married Miss Dorothy Stainton, of Auburn, and was the father of two small daughters. Besides his parents, wife and daughters, two sisters, Mrs. Gwen Hull, of Garden Island and Mrs. B. Wykes, of Shell Harbor, are left to mourn his loss. The late Mr. Wicker was a relative of the Woolbank families of Molong.