Victor (Vic) VICKERY

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VICKERY, Victor

Service Number:	46444
Enlisted:	12 February 1942
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bayswater, Western Australia, 31 July 1916
Home Town:	Elgin , Western Australia
Schooling:	Elgin School, Elgin via Capel, Western Australia
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Bunbury, Western Australia, 18 February 1997, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

12 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 46444
16 Jan 1947:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 46444

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman Victor Vickery (Service No:46444) enlisted as an Aircraftman I in the RAAF on 12 February 1942 at No 4 Recruiting Centre Perth - he had previously served two years with the Air Force Reserves. Mustered as Flight Mechanic and re mustered as Fitter, Leading Aircraftman Vickery served with No 1 Communication Flight Essendon, and was attached to 5 Embarkation Depot at Discharge on 16 January 1947. His father - Frederick William Vickery MM (Service No:3056) served in WWI and older brother Fred (Service No:W69190) served in the ACMF.

Vic was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1916, youngest of six children of Frederick William Vickery Snr (b1878 in Kent, England) and Mary Elizabeth Hollingworth (b1879 in Nottinghamshire, England). Fred Snr (a Paper Maker) and Mary married in 1900 in Lancashire, and in 1911 were in Kent, where Fred Snr worked as an Electrical Engineer in a Cable Factory. In 1912 Fred Snr and Mary immigrated, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Gothic. The family settled in Perth, where Fred Snr was working as a Telegraph Linesman when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916. Following his Discharge, Fred and Mary settled at Elgin Siding via Capel, where they raised their family and Fred Snr was a Farmer. Fred and Mary retired to Bunbury in the late 1940s, and Fred then was a Bus Proprietor.

Vic worked for his father as a Truck Driver in Elgin before enlisting in the RAAF, and returned following his Discharge in 1947. In Bunbury in 1947, Vic married Elsie Annie Gibbs (b1923 in Katanning, Western Australia). Vic and Elsie settled at Elgin, where they raised their family and Vic was a Farmer. Vic died in 1997 and Elsie in 2008.

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