TUCKER, Lionel Rex
| Service Number: | SX10314 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1940, Wayville, SA |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, SA, 10 November 1901 |
| Home Town: | Strathalbyn, Alexandrina, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Naracoorte, South Australia, 11 December 1989, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Naracoorte Cemetery, S.A. Grave G440. Interred on the 14 December 1989. Burial number 3794 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Jul 1940: | Involvement Captain, SX10314 | |
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| 26 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Wayville, SA | |
| 26 Jul 1940: | Enlisted SX10314, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Oct 1946: | Discharged | |
| 4 Oct 1946: | Discharged SX10314, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Known as Rex
Son of Edward Lionel Tucker and Ethel May Weir. On the 17 September 1932 he married Heather Gwin McLelland in Scots Church, North Terrace, Adelaide. Book/Page 334/173
Prior to enlisting he lived in the Strathalbyn area where he was involved with the horse sports especially hunting
After the war he and his wife Heather settled on a property on the Moy Hall Road about 20 miles from Naracoorte and which backed on to Bool Lagoon
It was here he resumed his love of horses and again became heavily involved in the Naracoorte Hunt Club and the local Pony Club. At one time Rex was Master of the Naracoorte Hunt Club for several years and both he and his horse Stormy Weather were well known in the Lower South East of South Australia