Leonard Roy Patrick HICKEY

HICKEY, Leonard Roy Patrick

Service Number: 3408
Enlisted: 16 February 1917, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 38th Infantry Battalion
Born: Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 16 April 1897
Home Town: Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Military Instructor
Died: Melbourne East, Victoria, Australia, September 1971, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Church of England area, Bolingbroke Lawn, Row AD, Grave 5. Interred on 13 September 1971 and held in perpetuity for all time
Memorials: Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1
Show Relationships

World War 1 Service

16 Feb 1917: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3408, 59th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
16 Jul 1917: Involvement Sergeant, 3408, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
16 Jul 1917: Embarked Sergeant, 3408, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Sydney
7 Feb 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 38th Infantry Battalion, From 59th Battalion
24 Feb 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3408, 38th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to gastritis

Help us honour Leonard Roy Patrick Hickey's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John Michael Hickey and Matilda Elizabeth Hickey nee O'Toole of Bay Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 8 December 1918 aboard HT Argyllshire disembarking on 1 February 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1927c Leonard married Violet Veronica Walshe in Victoria