DICKENSON, Edward Fenton
| Service Number: | W83151 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Denmark, Western Australia, 10 March 1904 |
| Home Town: | Pinjarra, Murray, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Publican |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 24 August 1974, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, W83151 | |
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| 11 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, W83151, 4th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, W83151 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Staff Sergeant Edward Fenton Dickenson (Service No:W83151) enlisted at Pinjarra, WA in the ACMF as a Private on 29 April 1942 attached to 4 Battalion (WA) VDC. Appointed Staff Sergeant on 23 February 1943, he was Discharged on 15 October 1945. He stated in his Attestation Papers that he had served with the Naval Reserve in 1918.
Born in 1904 in Denmark WA, Edward was thirteenth of fourteen children (10 survived infancy) of Robert Whitlaw Dickenson (b1865 in Lauriton, Victoria) and Mary Ann Collins (b1865 in Melbourne, Victoria). Robert was a Labourer when he and Mary married in 1885 in Melbourne, Victoria and in 1899 they moved their family to Denmark, WA. Robert worked as a Night Watchman and Labourer in Denmark before leaving his family and working as a Mill Hand at Mornington Mills via Wokelup, WA. Mary moved to Albany with the children after Robert left (ten of the children were under fourteen years of age) and from 1914 onwards the family advertised for information about Robert's whereabous - he moved to Perth where he worked as a General Hand. Mary drowned in 1929.
Edward started work at the Rose Hotel in Bunbury WA where, in 1933 he married Olive Veronica Mitchell (b1910 in Bunbury, WA). Edward and Rose lived in Armadale (Ye Olde Narrogin Inn), Ravenswood, Canning (Coronation Hotel) and Pinjarra (Exchange Hotel) where Edward was Hotel Manager/Licensed Victualler/Publican. In the early 195os Edward was Publican at the Duke of Cornwall Hotel in Kalgoorlie and Olive was living at Ye Olde Narrogin Inn in Armadale before moving to Meckering where she was Manageress of the Bowling Club. Edward died in Perth in 1974 and Olive died in Pingelly in 1983.