| Regimental number | 2458 |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | Launceston, Tasmania |
| Religion | Baptist |
| Occupation | Blacksmith |
| Address | 216 Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 19 |
| Height | 5' 8" |
| Weight | 163 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Flora Buck, 216 Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Previous military service | Served for 12 months in the 91st Infantry, Citizen Military Forces (Compulsory Military Service scheme); subsequently moved out of area. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Claremont, Tasmania |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 26th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/43/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Hobart, Tasmania, on board HMAT Ballarat on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 26th Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted 7 July 1915. Taken on strength, 26th Bn, 9 December 1915. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll) | Date of fate incorrectly shown on Nominal Roll as 9 September 1916. |
| Place of death or wounding | Pozieres, Somme Sector, France |
| Age at death | 19 |
| Place of burial | Serre Road Cemetery No. 2 (Plot XXIII, Row E, Grave No. 1), France |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 107 |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Taken on strength, 26th Bn, Gallipoli, 9 December 1915. Disembarked Alexandria from Mudros, 9 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Found guilty, Ismailia, 18 February 1916, of being absent from parade at 1125: awarded 24 hours' Field Punishment No 2. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 15 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 21 March 1916. Mentioned in 2nd Australian Division Routine Orders, for 'good and gallant conduct in connection with the recent hard fighting round Pozieres'. Killed in action, 25 August 1916. Mother wrote to Base Records, 23 September 1916: 'Dear Sir, Could you give me any tidings as to how my poor Boy died. I would like to know something about him. The poor boy had not received any letter from me for so many monce & I receved his crect address from you to late for him to get a word to him to get a word to him to tell him why he had not receved his letters being my only son & all I have to help me I feel it very hard. Can I have any of his things returned to me.' Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal In answer to an enquiry from Base Records to determine the correct recipient of his medals, mother wrote, 25 November 1920: 'I am the lads Mother his Father I cannot say has to him being alive. I have not heard anything of him or his werabouts since my son was six monce old. I maintained my son from that until the time of his inlistment.' Medals awarded to mother. Identity disc returned to mother, 9 May 1928, following the exhumation of her son's body and reburial in Serre Road Cemetery No 2. |
| Sources | NAA: B2455, BUCK Aubrey Leonard |
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