Michael Perry Stowell DICKEN

DICKEN, Michael Perry Stowell

Service Number: 419115
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
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer, 419115
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.

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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