Lindsay Gordon Buck

  General Notes:

World War 2 Service Record
Name BUCK, LINDSAY GORDON
Service Australian Army
Service Number V290132
Date of Birth 1 Mar 1921
Place of Birth EAST CAULFIELD, VIC
Date of Enlistment 13 May 1941
Locality on Enlistment OAKLEIGH, VIC
Place of Enlistment OAKLEIGH, VIC
Next of Kin BUCK, MARION
Date of Discharge 4 May 1942
Rank Private

World War 2 Service Record
Name BUCK, LINDSAY GORDON
Service Royal Australian Navy
Service Number W2399
Date of Birth 1 Mar 1922
Place of Birth CAULFIELD, VIC
Date of Enlistment 4 Nov 1942
Locality on Enlistment OAKLEIGH, VIC
Place of Enlistment WILLIAMSTOWN, VIC
Next of Kin BUCK, MARGARET
Date of Discharge 4 Feb 1946
Rank STOKER
Posting at Discharge HMAS Lonsdale
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No

Lindsay Gordon Buck enlisted in the Navy on 4 Nov 1942. Next of kin was his wife Margaret E, Buck, 10 Warrigul Road, Oakleigh, Vic. The address changed to 5 First Avenue, Murrumbeena in 1943 and Plenty Road, South Morang in 1947
His description was: - height - 5 feet 4 and three quarter inches, hair - brown, eyes - hazel - complexion - fresh and he had a scar on right elbow.
Lindsay served on the Cerberes, Goonanbee, Huon, Lonsdale & Nepal.
On the 21/12/1945 he had a "Clantar corn on right foot and callouses of both feet", he was approved to be supplied with arch supports.
Lindsay was demobbed 4/2/1946.

  Research Notes:

source: & Kevin Buck

  Noted events in his life were:

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Lindsay married Margaret Ellen Belton, daughter of George William Belton and Edith Alice Hawksworth, in 1942 in Victoria Australia. (Margaret Ellen Belton was born on 7 Nov 1920 in Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria Australia and died on 7 Nov 1920 in Echuca, Victoria Australia.)