DICKFOS, Alan Vernon
| Service Numbers: | Q122294, QX49525 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1923 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 December 1923 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter and Joiner |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 23 April 2014, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cabarlah Cemetery Cabarlah, Queensland, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 26 Jan 1923: | Involvement Corporal, Q122294, also QX49525 - died 2015 (RSL News 1/2015) | |
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| 26 Jan 1923: | Enlisted | |
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, QX49525, also Q122294 - died 2015 (RSL News 1/2015) | |
| 20 Feb 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX49525 | |
| 14 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Colonel, Q122294, 16 Australian Field Coy RME | |
| 26 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49525 | |
| 18 Dec 1944: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49525, per Mexico from Brisbane for Bougainville as Lance Corporal with 5 Australian Filed Coy RME | |
| 1 Jun 1946: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), QX49525, ex Rabaul per Westralia for Brisbane - Corporal with 4 Filed Coy | |
| 19 Jun 1946: | Discharged | |
| 19 Jun 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX49525 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Alan was the youngest of ten children of John Dickfos (born 1873 at Mt Walker in QLD) and Ellen Augustus Lawrence (born 1876 at Moggill in QLD). John. a Farmer, married Ellen in 1897 at Rosevale in QLD, and they raised their family in Coleyville and Degilbo in QLD.
Alan was a Carpenter and Joiner in Brisbane in 1942 when he enlisted in the CMF as a Corporal (Service No: Q122294) with 16 Australian Field Coy. In January 1943 he enlisted in the Australian Army and served as a Corporal/Lance Corporal (Service No: QX49525) with 16 Field Coy. 5 Field Coy and 4 Field Coy. Alan served in New Guinea (Merauke, Bougainville and Rabaul) and was Discharged in June 1946. Two of his brothers - Donald Richard (Service No: Q228002) and Colin Kenneth (Service No: Q189901), and Brothers-in-Law - Christopher James Fry (Service No: Q143301), Stanley Phillip Fry (Service No: Q116397), Harold Herbert Bird (Service No: 1766), and Max Arnold (Service No: QX46009) also served in WWII.
Alan married Myrtle Lillian Fry (born 1927 in Cairns, QLD) in May 1946 - Max Arnold was his Best Man, and Max's wife (Myrtle's sister) Lorna, was Matron of Honour.
Alan and Myrtle settled in Cairns where Alan worked as a Carpenter until the early 1970s when they moved to Brisbane for ten years, before returning to Cairns. Alan then worked as a Storeman, and died in Cairns in 2014/
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