Henry Francis BUCKLEY

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BUCKLEY, Henry Francis

Service Number:	2128
Enlisted:	16 April 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Darlinghurst, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Postal Worker
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Sydney NSW Post Master General's Department Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

16 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2128, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
16 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 2128, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: ''
16 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 2128, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Henry Buckley and Sarah Jane Buckley nee Hughes of 225 Barcom Street, Darlinghurst, NSW

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

The 155 men of the 6th reinforcements to the 4th Battalion embarked from Sydney on 16 June 1915. They stopped at Fremantle on the way and they disembarked in Egypt on the 21st July and only two weeks later the bulk of them landed the at Anzac to reinforce the 4th Battalion. No time for training.

They landed at Gallipoli on the 4 August 1915.

Henry Buckley was killed in action 2 days later at Lone Pine.

A Court of Inquiry was held and it was established on the 22 April 1916 that he had been killed in action on the 6 August 1915.

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