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BUCKLEY, Benjamin Alfred
(Service number 47310)

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011
Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011
Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date 28/04/1872 Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Thomas Buckley (brother), PO Box 17, Waimate
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 25th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date 26 April 1917
Transport Turakina
Embarked From Wellington Destination Plymouth, England
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 12 October 1917 Age 45
Place of Death Ypres, Belgium
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference NZ Apse, Panel 2
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Benjamin Buckley was the son of Benjamin Alfred and Elizabeth Josephine Buckley (nee Walsh), of Hook, Waimate. Benjamin (senior) and Elizabeth came to New Zraland from Ireland, where they farmned at Hook from the late nineteenth century until around the end of World War One. Benjamin (junior) was born on 28 April 1872.

Benjamin (junior) was a "native of Timaru".

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (October 2013); SCroll web submission by B Buckley, 20 February 2021

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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