Charles (Charlie) BUCKLAND

BUCKLAND, Charles

    Service Number: 46
    Enlisted: 8 February 1915
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 25th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, 1884
    Home Town: Palmers Island, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer, probably farm labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Woolgoolaga Public School Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    8 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 46, 25th Infantry Battalion
    29 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 46, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
    29 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 46, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
    6 Sep 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 25th Infantry Battalion, Promoted to Lance Corporal on embarkation to Gallipoli.
    12 Dec 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 25th Infantry Battalion, Promoted to Corporal in Gallipoli. Reverted to Private in Egypt on 2 January 1916 at his own request.

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    Biography contributed by Greg Towner

    The 'Daily Examiner', Grafton, on 27 September 1916 (trove.nla.gov.au) described Charles Buckland in the following terms: "Charlie was one of the best sons possible for parents to have, a straight, upright, clean-living and generous young man, a warm personal friend of the writer, and was as humanely near perfection as anyone the writer has had close acquaintance with, and a favourite alike in the cricket field and the football ground as he was with his mates either at work or socially." 

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