Albert Arthur VICKERY

VICKERY, Albert Arthur

Service Number: 402
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: South Australian Imperial Bushmen's Corps
Born: Mintaro, South Australia, 28 September 1880
Home Town: Mintaro, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Cattle Drover / Breaker
Died: Illness (Enteric fever), Kroonstadt, South Africa, Kroonstad, South Africa, 19 March 1902, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Springfontein Cemetery, Trompsburg, South Africa
Memorials: Adelaide Boer War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mintaro Boer War Plaque, Mintaro and District War Memorial, North Adelaide St Peter's Cathedral Boer War Honour Roll
Show Relationships

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Trooper, 402, South Australian Imperial Bushmen's Corps
1 Oct 1899: Involvement Trooper, 402, 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
Date unknown: Involvement

Help us honour Albert Arthur Vickery's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography

Chronicle (Adelaide, SA: 1895 - 1954) Saturday 29 March 1902

THE LATE TROOPER VICKERY.

Our Mintaro correspondent writes:— "The cable message in 'The Advertiser' of Saturday, containing the news of the death of Trooper A. A. Vickery, in South Africa, of the Fifth Contingent, has caused wide spread regret among the residents of this district. He was the youngest son of Mr. S. Vickery, who has held a position in the Railway department here for very many years. Trooper Vickery was of good   physique, a splendid horseman, a good marksman, and in every sense the true stamp of a soldier, and his manly character and sunny disposition won the respect of his comrades in arms, this makes the second soldier from Mintaro whose untimely end has occurred in South Africa within the last three months." 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87820591

 

Read more...