Soldier profiles
Name : HUCKER, STANLEY JAMES
Service Number : VX74119
Date of Birth : 08/12/1921
Place of Birth : WILLAURA, VIC
Known as : BLUE, BLUEY, STAN
Occupation on Enlistment :
Date of Enlistment : 30/01/1942
Locality on Enlistment : LAKE BOLAC, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : HUCKER, GEORGE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : LANCE SERGEANT
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : 7 PLATOON A COMPANY (NEW GUINEA)
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA
Actions : NADZAB (NEW GUINEA), EDWARD'S PLANTATION (TARI, NEW GUINEA), LAE (NEW GUINEA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 19/12/1945
Date Died : ??/??/2007
Age at Death : 86?
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : LAKE BOLAC CEMETERY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : Military Medal for extreme gallantry at Edward's Plantation (Tari, New Guinea) on 15/09/1943 presented at Government House, Melbourne, Victoria on 20/10/1947. London Gazette 20/01/1944, page 391, position 29. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 02/12/1943, page 2611, position 46
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial Awards Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6069484 [DIGITISED], Barcode 31057922 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 761kB)
Background : Stan did his schooling at Lake Bolac and later at Geelong Technical School. He did not get much time to be the wool classer he trained to be, for he joined the Army in 1940. Stan received his Military Medal for bravery in action at Tari in New Guinea on 15/2/1943. At the time he was a corporal in Lieutenant Tom Hulse\?s 7th Platoon. After the war, Stan and his wife Phyllis farmed a soldier settlement property for 30 years until they moved to Ocean Grove in 1981. Stan took his active love of sport into his senior years. In retirement Stan and Phyllis travelled far and wide, barracked parochially for Geelong, but even more importantly, he kept close to his heart Lake Bolac, Willaura, his wife Phyllis and their 5 children.
