VICKERY, Allan Kingston
| Service Number: | 817 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 6 June 1887 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Caulfield Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Israel, 11 December 1940, aged 53 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 817, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 6 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 817, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan MacCorquodale embarkation_ship_number: A6 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 817, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Clan MacCorquodale, Sydney | |
| 28 Jun 1917: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 23 May 1918 on page 1122 at position 26 London Gazette 12 January 1918 on page 804 at position 12 | |
| 1 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 817, Australian Imperial Force Headquarters, Egypt |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant Allan Kingston Vickery (Service No:817) enlisted in the AIF as a Private in January 1915 and embarked from Sydney with 6th Light Horse Regiment for Egypt on board HMAT Clan Mccorquodale A6. On 28 June 1917 Staff Sergeant Vickery was Mentioned in Despatches and in November 1918 he was commissioned. Lieutenant Vickery was attached to AIF HQ Egypt when he Discharged on 1 October 1919 to serve with the Imperial War Graves Commission, Gallipoli.
Born in 1887 in Ararat Victori, Allan was the youngest of seven children of Samuel Kingston Vickery (b1840 in County Cork, Ireland) and Lucretia Bond (b1848 in the Murray District in Victoria). Samuel (Assistant Engineer with the Victorian Railways Dept) and Lucretia married in 1873 at Utpotipotpon Station in Benalla, Victoria. Samuel - who had studied Engineering at Queen's University in Ireland worked as District Mining Surveyor and District Surveyor, Crown Lands Department in Ararat before moving his family to Melbourne in the late 1870s where he was a Civil Servant and Surveyor General (Victoria).
Allan attended Caulfield Grammar School and started work in Ararat as a Bank Clerk with the London Bank in Australia. He was also a member of the National Reserve Rifle Club. By 1913 Allan was working in Sydney as a Bank Clerk and enlisted in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge in Egypt, Allan served with the Imperial War Graves Commission, Gallipoli and in 1924 was Deputy Dirextor of Works Gallipoli. Allan returned to Sydney NSW in 1925 and was an Accountant when he married Violet Mary McCay (nee Watson; b1884 in Melbourne, Victoria).
In 1929 Allan was appointed Area Superintendent Imperial War Graves Commission for Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and was given the Honorary rank of Major, CMF. Allan died in Israel in 1940 and Violet died in Melbourne, Victoria in 1981.