Lawless Fenton BUCKLEY

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BUCKLEY, Lawless Fenton

Service Number:	NX30123
Enlisted:	12 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nimmitabel, New South Wales, Australia, 25 March 1910
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Mechanic
Died:	Beri Beri whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Borneo, 11 February 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Labuan War Memorial, Malaysia Panel 13
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Labuan Memorial, Labuan Federal Territory, Malaysia

World War 2 Service

12 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX30123, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
3 Jul 1943:	Imprisoned
11 Feb 1945:	Involvement Private, NX30123, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Lawless Fenton BUCKLEY was born in Nimmitabel, NSW on 25th March, 1910

His parents were Patrick BUCKLEY & Judith Mary BOURKE who married in Sydney in 1903

He married Dorothy GREEN in Sydney in 1939

He was taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese (No. 1610) and died of Illness (Beri Beri) in Borneo on 11th February, 1945- no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial, the Labuan Memorial & the Burwood Sandakan Memorial

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