James Walter HICKEY

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Service Number:	16029
Enlisted:	28 April 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Dental Details: AIF
Born:	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Kew, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Student
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 1972, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 9 August 1972 and were collected
Memorials:	Kew War Memorial

28 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 16029, Dental Details: AIF, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
28 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 16029, Dental Details: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
28 Jul 1916:	Embarked Private, 16029, Dental Details: AIF, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne
12 Apr 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, Dental Details: AIF
10 Sep 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, Dental Details: AIF, Dental Mechanic
15 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 16029, Dental Details: AIF, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of James Hickey and Helen Elizabeth Hickey nee Swan of 'Blakely', Wrixon Street, East Kew, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 10 April 1919 aboard HT Medic as Dental Staff disembarking on 31 May 1919

Medal: British War Medal

During 1932c James married Kathleen Lilliam O'Connor in Victoria