Costello HICKEY

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Service Number:	6429
Enlisted:	25 October 1916, Enlisted at Warrnambool, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Portland, Victoria, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Portland, Glenelg, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Chauffeur
Died:	Portland, Victoria, Australia, 1955, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

25 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6429, 21st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Warrnambool, Victoria
23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 6429, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 6429, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
5 Dec 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6429, 21st Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due appendisitis

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Son of Thomas Hickey and Ellen Hickey nee McDonald of Portland Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 21 July 1917 aboard HS Euripides disembarking on 18 September 1917

Medal: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1920c Costello married Lylie Potter in Victoria