Percy Dixon BICKFORD

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BICKFORD, Percy Dixon

Service Numbers:	455424, NX19671
Enlisted:	12 May 1939
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 1
Last Unit:	4 Ordnance Stores Company
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 3 November 1902
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Accounts Clerk
Died:	Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia , 26 November 1970, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rye Park Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia
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World War 2 Service

12 May 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 455424
3 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Sergeant, NX19671, Ordnance Stores Companies
3 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, NX19671
15 Jun 1940:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, 455424, Ordnance Stores Companies
9 Oct 1940:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX19671, 2nd/2nd Ordnance Stores Company, ex Melbourne per HMAT Nieuw Zeeland to Kaitura
26 Feb 1944:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, 2 Australian RSD
1 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, NX19671
1 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 1, NX19671, 4 Ordnance Stores Company
Date unknown:	Involvement Warrant Officer Class 1, NX19671

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Percy was the fifth of nine children of Ernest John Bickford (born 1861 in Melbourne, Victoria) and his second wife Mary Dixon (born 1869 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ernest - a Botanist, Author and Furniture Manufacturer/Exporter - married Mary in 1895 in Melbourne, Victoria. They moved to Perth, WA where they resided until 1906, when they moved to Sydney, NSW.

Percy was working as an Accountant and Paymaster in Sydney when he enlisted in the Australian Army in 1939 as a Private with AAOC. He then enlisted in the AIF in 1940, and served (Service No:NX19671) with Specialist Group III and 2/2 Ordnance Stores Coy. He was a WOI when he was Discharged in August 1945. Father Ernest John Bickford (Private; Service No:22221), Brothers Howell Nicholas (Private; Service No:3752), Richard Watson (Private; Service No:11909), Leslie Wills (Private; Service No:95190) and Brother-in-Law John Benjamin Oswald Hosking (T/Corporal; Service No:19644) served in WWI. Brothers Richard Watson (Staff Sergeant; Service Nos:NX422731/N74699) and John Frederick (WO; Service No:23049) served in WWII.

In 1927, Percy married Daisy Ena Evangeline Lawton (born 1905 in Gunning, NSW) at Boorowra in NSW. They lived in Sydney where Percy was an Accountant until moving to Rye Park in Boorowra, NSW in the early 1950s. Percy was a Grazier at Boorowra, and died in 1970. Daisy died in 1981.

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