DICKINSON, Jack George James
| Service Numbers: | V40865, VX114448 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 October 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 25 March 1921 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cabinetmaker |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 November 2007, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Oct 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V40865, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 29 Jul 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX114448, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 30 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX114448, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 5 Jun 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX114448, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Jack George James Dickinson (Service Nos:V40865/VX11448) served initially in the ACMF (31 October 1941 - 29 July 1942) with 24 Battalion and No 2 General Motor Transport Coy, and was in Alice Springs NT when he elisted in the AIF on 30 July 1942. Private Dickinson - Trade Tested as Carpenter - served in the NT and was attached to 147 General Motor Transport (GMT) Coy at Discharge on 5 June 1945. His father Leopold served in WWI and sibling Lindsay in WWII.
Jack was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1921, eldest son of Leopold (Leo) Fairfield Dickinson (b1893 in Fairfield, Victoria) and Irene Edith Emily Craig (b1892 in Launceston, Tasmania). Leo was a Labourer when he enlisted in the AIF in 1914, and he and Irene married in Melbourne. By 1921 Leo was awarded a wheat growing farm at Margooya (in his application he stated he had six years farming experience in the Mallee, Rochester and Ballarat districts). By 1927 Leo and Irene had returned to Melbourne with their children - Leo worked as a Brewery Employee, Cellarman and Council Employee.
Jack was working in Melbourne as a Cabintetmaker in 1941 before enlisting in the ACMF in January 1942. In 1948 in Melbourne, he married Carmel Patricia Stevenson (b1924 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Jack was working as a Car Builder and Carmel was a Clerk. They settled in Melbourne, where Jack worked as a Car Builder and Carmel as a Clerk, before becoming Shopkeepers in Hawthorn and, from the late 1960s, Jack worked as a Machinist. Jack died in 2007 and Carmel in 2019.