John Richard (Jack) HICKEY

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HICKEY, John Richard

Service Number:	5335
Enlisted:	27 November 1939
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 14 July 1916
Home Town:	Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	de la Salle College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Barman
Died:	Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 19 August 1972, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia
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World War 2 Service

27 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 5335
6 Mar 1946:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 5335

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Leading Aircraftman John Richard Hickey (Service No:5335) enlisted in the RAAF on 27 November 1939 and mustered as a Steward. LAC Hickey served in the South West Pacific Region (1941 - 1943) and Darwin (17 January 1945 - 6 july 1945). LAC Hickey was attached to 1 Personnel Depot when he was Discharged on 6 March 1946).

Born in 1916 in Melbourne Victoria, Jack was the sixth of nine children of John Patrick Cyril Hickey (b1875 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Mary Ellen Stewart (b1880 in Port Fairy, Victoria). John (a Traveller) and Mary married in 1905 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and John worked as a Traveller, Salesman and Agent.

Jack worked as a Builder's Labourer and Truck Driver, and in North QLD (Tully and Cairns) as a Barman and Waiter. He was working in Port Melbourne as a Barman when he enlisted in the RAAF in 1939 and returned to Melbourne following his service. Jack lived in Melbourne with his parents and was on occasion unemployed. He also resumed work as a Barman. Jack died at the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital in 1972.

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