BUCKLEY, Lawrence James
| Service Number: | 2063 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 57th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wodonga, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver and Dairy Hand |
| Died: | Auckland, New Zealand, 25 August 1974, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ōtāhūhū Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Memorials: | Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 6th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 2063, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 2063, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 30 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Dardanelles - GSW neck | |
| 17 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 58th Infantry Battalion, Serapeum | |
| 13 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 58th Infantry Battalion, ex Alexandria to Plymouth per Aragon |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 57th Infantry Battalion, France |
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Vietnam War Service
| 9 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 57th Infantry Battalion, per HT Leicestershire |
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World War 1 Service
| 22 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2063, 57th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Lawrence James Buckley (Service No:2063) enlisted in the AIF on 12 September 1914 (in Private Buckley's official records, his Service Number appears on different occasions as 2063, 2089 or 2088). Private Buckley embarked from Melbourne with 6th Infantry Battalion on 19 October 1914 on board HMAT A20 Hororata. Private Buckley served in the Dardanelles (where he was WiA - GSW to the neck), Suez, Alexandria, Zaitoum, Mudras and was hospitalised on several occasions with Dysentry and Jaundice. In February 1916 he transferred to 58th Infantry Battalion and later embarked for Plymouth on board the Aragon and then on to France. On 20 September 1916 Private Buckley transferred to 57th Infantry Battalion and embarked on 9 December 1918 for the RTA. Private Buckley was Discharged on 20 March 1919.
Born in 1897 in Wodonga Victoria, Larry was the only child of Daniel Lawrence Buckley (b1857 in Ireland) and Margaret Ann Shiels (b1876 in Malmsbury, Victoria). Daniel (a Foreman with the Railways at Wodonga) and Mary married in 1894 in Malmsbury, Victoria. They were living at Wodonga when Daniel was killed in a workplace accident in 1896 - before Larry was born. Mary was a HotelKeeper in Bendigo in 1903 when she married James Cumming (b1862 in Wigtownshire, Scotland). James was Divorced (with eight children) when he and Mary married in 1903. Mary and James raised Larry with his step brothers and the further seven children he and Mary had together. James was a Farmer and Grazier in Bendigo, and many of his sons worked on Flora Hill Farm. James had six sons, and Larry, who served in WWI.
Larry worked as a Dairy Hand and Driver at Flora Hill in Bendigo before enlisting in the AIF in 1914. In 1923 in Bendigo Victoria, Larry married Nellie Stanwick (b1900 in Bendigo, Victoria) and shortly afterwards the couple moved to New Zealand. Larry worked as a Lead Burner in Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand and served in the New Zealand Army in WWII (2nd Lieutenant; Service No:5515555). He later was an Acid Plant Superviser and also worked as an Orderly in the 1960s. Larry died in 1974 and Nellie in 1979.
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