He was born in Sydney to William George Lickiss and Lillian Rita , '' née '' Green . He attended Clempton Park Public School and Canterbury Boys ' High School before the family moved to Brisbane . He studied at the University of Queensland and became a draftsman with the Queensland Survey Office and then the Department of Territories in Darwin . During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a navigator and intelligence officer . Returning to Queensland , he farmed sugarcane and pineapples and joined the Liberal Party . In 1963 he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Mount Coot-tha . On 3 October 1975 he was awarded the Queen 's Gallantry Medal for his efforts to rescue a soldier during the flooding in Brisbane the previous year . In 1975 he was appointed to the front bench as Minister for Survey , Valuation , Urban and Regional Affairs , with a further promotion to Attorney-General and Minister for Justice in 1976 . He lost his front bench position in 1980 but became Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in 1983 , serving until 1986 . In that year he also moved from his seat of Mount Coot-tha to Moggill . He retired in 1989 . Lickiss died in Brisbane in 1993
the flooding in Brisbane
1974 Brisbane flood
Bill Lickiss