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VC1055    Alexander Henry Buckley

Name   Alexander Henry Buckley   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1055   Awards   VC     

Regiment   Australian Imperial Force, 54th (New South Wales) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Temporary Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Warren, New South Wales, Australia

Place Of Death   Peronne, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, St Radegonde, 6 miles east of Albert, Somme, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 2, Row C, Grave 32

Gazetted   14 December 1918

VC Presented   No presentation

Memorials

P  Headstone, Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, St Radegonde, 6 miles east of Albert, Somme, France

Named on Roll of Honour, Panel 158, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Named on War Memorial, Gulargambone, NSW, Australia

Named on War Memorial, Armatree, NSW, Australia

Display, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Memorial Plaque, Armatree, NSW, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Borella Road, Peards Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Ingleburn RSL Club, Sydney, NSW, Australia

By The Way…

Just before leaving Australia for war he got engaged, but never returned to get married

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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BORN   22 July 1891

DIED   1 September 1918  AGE   27

VC Won   1 September 1918   AGE  27

Place VC Won  Peronne, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918