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WICKENS, Cecil Vernon
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Numbers: | 79, W66824 |
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Enlisted: | 25 March 1942, Nedlands, WA |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | Blackwood, SA, 7 July 1889 |
Home Town: | Nedlands, Nedlands, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Sturt Street State School, Adelaide High School |
Occupation: | Clark |
Died: | Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, 25 March 1942, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Adelaide High School Great War Honour Board, Adelaide Sturt Street Public School Great War Roll of Honour, Blackwood War Memorial, Unley Sturt Football Club WW1 Honour Roll |
Biography contributed
From Adelaide High School Magazine, Michaelmas, 1914, p 7-9
Corporal Vernon A. Wickens gained an exhibition at the P.T.S. [Pupil Teacher School] in December, 1902.
Since leaving school he has been at the A.M.P. Office, Adelaide. Mr. Wickens is well known
as a prominent football player. He has been accepted in the Light Horse Regiment