BUCK, John Nicholas
| Service Number: | 4285 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Dunolly, Victoria, Australia, 1877 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Died of Illness, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia, 23 August 1920 |
| Cemetery: |
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia Grave No. 5175, Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4285, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 1 Jun 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 4285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 4285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
John Nicholas Buck was born at Dunolly, Victoria in 1877 to William and Elizabeth Buck. He was mining at Boulder in Western Australia when he enlisted as a single man at the age of very nearly 40 years of age. As a miner he served with the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company. He worked with the unit until 13 April 1917, when he was hospitalised with debility, then evacuated to England.
John left England on 21 July 1917. He was admitted an Army General Hospital at Fremantle and was treated there for emphysema and bronchitis, irregular heart and debility. It was accepted that his disability had been provoked by his military service.
John was discharged from the A.I.F on 23 November 1917, and died nearly 3 years later on 23 August 1920 aged about 44 years. He was buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery.
His younger brother 4286 Sapper Frederick Thomas Buck also in the 3rd Tunnelling Company died in very similar circumstances, of mining related diseases, in Kalgoorlie, 30 October 1918 age 34.
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