Frederick Henry Buck

  General Notes:

Buck, Fred Henry
Service Number: 4984
Rank/Calling: Private
Unit: 21 Infantry Battalion - 13 to 18 Reinforcements (July-November 1916)
Ship Name: HMAT Ayrshire
Ship Number: A33
Date of Embarkation: 3/07/1916
Place of Embarkation: Melbourne 


World War 2 Service Record
Name BUCK, FREDERICK HENRY
Service Australian Army
Service Number V365161
Date of Birth 2 Feb 1894
Place of Birth AIRLY, VIC
Date of Enlistment 27 Mar 1942
Locality on Enlistment AIRLY, VIC
Place of Enlistment STRATFORD, VIC
Next of Kin BUCK, MABEL
Date of Discharge 19 Sep 1945
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 13 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No

Frederick Henry Buck enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 28/2/1916. His next of kin was his father Mr Charles E Buck, Francis Street, Bairnsdale.
On the Certificate of Medical Examination Frederick is described as: - 22 years, height - 5 feet 4 and a quarter inches, weight - 139 pounds, chest measurement - 33 and a half/36 inches, complexion - dark, eyes - grey, hair - black and religious denomination - Church of England. His distinctive marks were: - Vac 4 left arm, birthmark back neck, 1 mole chest, 1 mole abdomen and 1 mole left collar bone.
Frederick served in France. He was admitted to hospital on 13/1/1917 with Trench Feet and transferred to the Reading War Hospital in England. Frederick returned to his unit on 1/2/1918. He was next admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds to his arms and head on 20/5/1918 and rejoined his unit on 6/8/1918. Once again he was wounded, this time with severe gunshot wounds to his back on the 1/9/1918 and sent to England to recover.
He returned to Australia per “Delta” and embarked on 24/1/1919 and reached Melbourne on 10/3/1919 and discharged on 17/4/1919.

Electoral Roll: -
1919 - Francis Street, Bairnsdale, Vic - labourer.
1924, 1931, 1936 - Hillside, Vic. - farmer.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Labourer.

Frederick married Mildred (Mabel) Weston, daughter of James Henry Weston and Magdalena Flinn, in 1920 in Victoria Australia. (Mildred (Mabel) Weston was born in 1891 in Omeo, Victoria Australia, died on 9 Aug 1961 in Moorabbin, Victoria Australia and was buried on 11 Aug 1961 in Springvale Crematorium, Victoria Australia Cremated Remains Scattered..)