Benjamin Esmond NICKER

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NICKER, Benjamin Esmond

Service Number:	SX403
Enlisted:	20 October 1939
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Field Regiment
Born:	Arltunga, SA, 3 March 1908
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bushman
Died:	Died of wounds, Daphne Hospital, Athens, Greece, 19 April 1941, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece B 3 5
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Barker War Memorial

World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1939:	Involvement Bombardier, SX403
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Keswick, SA
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombardier, SX403, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by VWM Australia

Son of Sam & Elizabeth NICKER

At the outbreak of WWII, Ben was working on Mount Doreen Station, 360km north-west of Alice Springs.

After the capture of Tobruk during the North African campaign he served in Greece.
Eventually Ben was wounded, a shell splinter lodging in his buttock while travelling in a three ton ammunition truck driven by Alan Low up Servia Pass in Greece. Ben was evacuated to a C.C.S (Casualty Clearing Station) for medical attention but his Regiment received word nine days later he had died of gangrene in the Daphne Hospital in Athens.

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