JUCKERT, Eric Carl
| Service Number: | 53179 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 26 October 1918 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Potter |
| Died: | Phillip Island,Victoria, Australia, 4 January 2004, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Phillip Island Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 53179 | |
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| 23 Dec 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 53179 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Eric Carl Juckert (Service No:53179) enlisted in the RAAF on 2 April 1942 and was atatched to 1 Operational Training Unit when he was Discharged on 23 December 1946.
Born in 1918 in Richmond, Melbourne Victoria, Eric was the eldest of two children of George (Carl) Louis Ottos Carl Juckert (b1884 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Ethel May Storey (b1895 in Wycheproof, Victoria). Carl (an Instrument Maker) and Ethel married in 1916 in Melbourne, Victoria and settled in St Kilda where Carl worked as a Telegraph Mechanic.
Eric worked as a Potter and Painter in Melbourne from 1937, also teaching Pottery in his home based studio. In 1947 he was Proprietor of the Granthaven Gentleman's Country Home near Healesville, Victoria, then was based in Melbourne from 1949 to 1954. Following travels to England, in 1959 Eric settled on Phillip Island where he had his Studio and worked as a Potter and Painter. Eric died in 2004.
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