Tregarthen Charles (Garth) GLANVILLE-HICKS

GLANVILLE-HICKS, Tregarthen Charles

Service Number: VX114173
Enlisted: 20 October 1942, Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/11th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born: Wellington, New Zealand, 10 August 1911
Home Town: Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling: Wesley College, Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Architect
Died: Accidental (Drowning), Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 27 February 1943, aged 31 years
Cemetery: Wagga Wagga General (Monumental) Cemetery
Methodist Plot, Section G, Grave 840
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, VX114173
20 Oct 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , VX114173, Liverpool, NSW
27 Feb 1943: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, VX114173, 2nd/11th Field Company / Squadron RAE

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Tregarthen Charles GLANVILLE - HICKS was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 10th August, 1911

His parents were Ernest GLANVILLE-HICKS & Myrtle BARLEY who married in New Zealand in 1909

He married June Leslie Syme CALDER in Victoria in 1937

Tregarthen accidentally drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga due to heart failure during experimental exercises with his Unit - he is buried in the Wagga Wagga General Cemetery

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His brother Captain Beric Tristan GLANVILLE-HICKS also served during WW2 & was discharged on 19th July, 1946

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