DICKEN, Michael Perry Stowell
| Service Number: | 419115 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Pilot Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura |
| Born: | Cairo, Egypt, 5 July 1923 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Cheltenham College, UK & Church of England Grammar, Melbourne |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Aircraft accident, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 17 August 1943, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria War Graves Plot C. Row A. Grave 10 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Iraak "POWER & DICKEN" Memorial Plaque |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Pilot Officer, 419115 | |
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| 14 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura | |
| 14 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 419115 |
THREE AIRMEN KILLED
SYDNEY, Friday.— Flight-Sergeant Noel Swanston Jay, pilot-Instructor, of Dee Why, Sydney, who had been released from R.A.A.F. head quarters, Eastern Area was killed when an aircraft crashed at an R.A.A.F. station in south-western N.S.W.
Flying-Officer T. P. Power, pilot-instructor, of Melbourne, and Pilot-Officer M, P. S. Dicken, of India, were killed when an R.A.A.F. aircraft crashed during training exercises in southern New South Wales.
Submitted 19 October 2015 by Faithe Jones
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Son of Charles Vernon Dicken CBE and Alice Mary Dicken of Patiala, India
RAAF Wirraway aircraft A20-543 of Number 2 Operational Training Unit crashed near Mildura, Victoria killing Pilot Officer Dicken 419115 & Flying Officer Power 408700
Biography contributed
Michael Perry Stowell DICKEN was born in Cairo, Egypt on 5th July, 1923
His parents were Charles Vernon DICKEN & Alice Mary OGDEN who married in Cairo on 6th September 1917
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