Barry Forbes VICARY

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VICARY, Barry Forbes

Service Number:	13329
Enlisted:	6 October 1916, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF)
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 27 March 1895
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier - Clerk
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 6 September 1985, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

6 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 13329, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF), Sydney, NSW
22 Dec 1916:	Involvement Warrant Officer Class 1, 13329, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Auxiliary Transport Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1916:	Embarked Warrant Officer Class 1, 13329, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Auxiliary Transport Companies, HMAT Persic, Melbourne
23 Sep 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 13329, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF), per Ascanius
25 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF)

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Barry was the youngest of two sons of Henry John MacLaine Vicary (born 1867 in Spring Bay, Tasmania) and Lucy Amelia Page (born 1869 in Oatlands, Tasmania). Older brother Owen Henry MacLean Vicary served with the British Army as an officer in the Cold Stream Guards.

Barry was living is Sydney NSW in 1916 and was with Instructional Staff as a Soldier (Clerk) when he took his Discharge and enlisted in the AIF. Barry served as a Warrant Officer and Lieutenant (Service No: 13329) with Mechanical Transport. He was Discharged in December 1919.

In 1922 Barry married Marjorie Edith Zoe Pascoe (born 1893 in Unley Park, South Australia) at St Leonar'd in NSW. The couple moved to Brisbane, QLD where they raised their family, and Barry was initially a Manager, and then Agent for Davies and Coopers Coy in Ashgrove in Brisbane, QLD. Barry died in 1985 in Brisbane QLD and Marjorie in 1989.

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