LUKIN, Guy Clifton
| Service Number: | 2631 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 June 1915, Perth, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Beverley, Western Australia, 27 August 1888 |
| Home Town: | Dumbleyung, Dumbleyung Shire, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Suicide, Northam, Western Australia, 7 May 1930, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northam Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Beverley District Honour Roll WW1, Beverley War Memorial, Guildford St. Matthew's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Guildford War Memorial, Wagin Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2631, 12th Infantry Battalion, Perth, WA | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2631, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2631, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Guy Lukin was the son of Henry Harbottle Lukin who an Australian farmer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1899 until his death from measles in 1901 when Guy was 13 years of age. His mother Rachel carried on the farm until one of her sons was old enough to take it over. She passed away in 1909 when Guy was 21 years of age. Guy had 11 brothers and sisters.
Sergeant Guy Clifton Lukin D.C.M., 12th Battalion AIF, was awarded his medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Boursies, France on 9 April 1917.
He was returned to Australia in August 1917 due to a gunshot wound to his left shoulder which he sustained during the action for which he won the DCM. His brother 116 Tpr. Dudley Lukin 10th Light Horse Regiment was killed in action at the Nek, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915. Another younger brother, 774 Cpl. Lionel Roy Lukin, 28th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action at Morlancourt in France 10 June 1918, aged 21.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Guy married Doris Benbow, the first teacher at the Wishbone School and the daughter of W.H. Benbow, Road Board Secretary from 1913-1925. Guy never recovered from war wounds and died in 1930.
FARMER'S DEATH
INDICATIONS OF SUICIDE
At about 1C o'clock on Wednesday morning, Guy Clifton Lukin (aged about 40 years) was found dead in the kitchen of a house on Burlong Farm, which is some six miles from Northam on the main road to Perth and which was purchased from Mr. A. Breeze by the deceased a week ago. A shot gun was beside the body and the circumstances in which the deceased was discovered suggested suicide.
Mr. Breeze reported to the police at 10.15 o'clock that whilst in a paddock of the farm measuring up land that morning, he had heard a woman screaming. He jumped into his motor truck and proceeded to the house which was a mile and a half distant. On the way he met Mrs. Lukin who was extremely agitated. When they reached the house he found Guy Lukin lying on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood with a shotgun beside him. He brought Mrs. Lukin into town. Sergeant Carroll and Constable Ross proceeded to the farm, where they were later joined by Dr. Aberdeen. Sergeant Carroll said the deceased had a wound in the side of his head level with the right eye and a small bore, double barrel shotgun was lying at his feet with an empty shell in the breech of the right barrel. There was a lady's handbag near the gun. In a statement to the police a youth employed on the farm said that shortly after breakfast Mr. Lukin had rushed over to the shed in which he was working and had asked him to go into Northam and try to secure a nurse for his wife who was ill and to get also a bottle of brandy. When he returned his employer was dead.
An inquest will be held.
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