Hadden Kingston VICKERY

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VICKERY, Hadden Kingston

Service Number:	831
Enlisted:	21 October 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance
Born:	Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 12 July 1885
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk in Holy Orders
Died:	Auckland, New Zealnad, 13 October 1965, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Purewa Cemetery, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand
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World War 1 Service

21 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 831, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance
2 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 831, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Chilka embarkation_ship_number: A51 public_note: ''
2 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 831, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, HMAT Chilka, Melbourne
16 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 831, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, ex Portland per Ascanius - Typhoid Carrier
2 Jun 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 831, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Hadden Kingston Vickery (Service No:831) enlisted in the AIF on 21 October 1914 and embarked from Melbourne with 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance on board HMAT Chilka A51. Private Vickery kept a detailed diary during his service with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance and 3rd Light Horse Brigade, including detailed coverage of the Gallipoli campaign (AWM: PRO1454). Private Vickery was invalided to England and embarked for Australia on 17 March 1916 on board the Ascanius - Typhoid Carrier. He was Discharged on 2 June 1916. Sibling Allan (Lieutenant; Service No:817) also served in WWI.

Born in 1885 in Ararat Victoria, Hadden was the sixth of seven children of Samuel Kingston Vickery (b1840 in Cork, Ireland) and Lucretia Bond (b1848 in the Murray District in Victoria). Samuel (Inspecting District Surveyor with the Crown Lands Dept) and Lucretia married at Upotipotpon Station in Benalla in Victoria in 1873. Samuel - who had been an Engineering Student at Queen's University in Ireland - worked as Assistant Enginner - Railway Dept, District Mining Surveyor and Inspecting District Surveyor in Ararat before moving with his family to Melbourne in the late 1870s, where he was a Civil Servant and Surveyor General Victoria.

Hadden was a Theology Student and Clerk in Holy Orders in Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF in 1914 - he had served three years with the Mounted Cadets. In 1919 Hadden was a Clergyman when he married Kathleen Laurence (b1893 in Launceston, Tasmania) - Kathleen was a Nurse at Melbourne Hospital. The couple married in the Chapel of St Peter, Seamens' Institute on the Australian Wharf in Melbourne.

From 1928 to 1950 Canon Vickery was Chaplain at the Flying Angel Mission for Seamen (National Library Auckland) and in 1949 in the King's Honours Birthday List in New Zealnd, he was awarded an MBE 'for services as Chaplain to the Flying Angels Mission to Seamen'.

In 1935 Hadden served as an Honorary Sub Lieutenant with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve New Zealand, and in WWII served as a Captain (Service No:42666) with 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, NZ Medical Corps.

Hadden died in 1965 in Auckland NZ and Kathleen returned to Tasmania where she died in 1977.

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