WICKERSON, Joseph Jenner
| Service Number: | N282687 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 November 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Ammunition Depot |
| Born: | Nambour, Queensland, Australia, 24 October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Myocum, Byron Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bli Bli State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 9 September 1962, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 21 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, N282687 | |
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| 17 Aug 1948: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, N282687, Ammunition Depot, 3 Central Ammunition Depot |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Joseph was the eighth of nine children of Amos Edwin Wickerson (b1859 in Sussex, England) and Edith Lucy Baker (b1866 in Sussex, England. Joseph - a Farm Labourer - and Edith - an unemployed Nurse's Girl - both arrived in Cooktown, QLD on board the Duke of Buccleuch in April 1883. They married in Brisbane, QLD in August 1883 and settled at Diddillibah where Amos was a Selector before relocating to Burpengary and then to Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast. Amos was a Farmer.
Joseph was a Farmer in Bli Bli when he enlisted in the AIF in June 1916. He served as a Private (Service No:Q9030) with 11 Depot Battalion but did not embark due to being discharged as mediccly unfit in October 1916. Brother Arthur Henry (Private; Service No:Q9029) also served briefly with 11 Depot Battalion that year.
Joseph returned briefly to Bli Bli before moving to Kunghur, NSW near the QLD border. He was a Farmer in 1918 when he married Cynthia Annie Sheather (b1899 in Casino, NSW). They settled in the Byron Bay region where Joseph was a Farmer - initially at Billnudgel and then at Myocum.
In November 1941 Joseph enlisted in the Australian Army. He served as a Corporal (Service No:N282687) in the ACMF until 30 June 1947. On 1 July 1947 he re-enlisted and served as a Corporal (Service No:NP846830), attached to 3 Central Ammunition Depot when Discharged on 7 August 1948. Son Clifford James (Service No:NX69050) and brother Arthur (Service No:Q204730) served in WWII, as did nephews and brothers-in-law.
Joseph and Cynthia moved to Lismore, where Joseph died in 1962 and Cynthia in 1970.