Alexander Percy (Percy) BUCK

BUCK, Alexander Percy

Service Number: 2143
Enlisted: 30 March 1916, Transferred to 51st Battalion
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born: Busselton. Western Australia, 1895
Home Town: Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Linesman
Died: Complications attributed to War, Bunbury, Western Australia, 1923
Cemetery: Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia
Memorials: Busselton War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

30 Mar 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2143, 44th Infantry Battalion, Transferred to 51st Battalion
9 Aug 1916: Involvement Private, 2143, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
9 Aug 1916: Embarked Private, 2143, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle

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Biography contributed by Joy Dalgleish

Percy was the son of George Richard Buck of Bunbury Western Australia

On the 27 January 1917, he was wounded in action and, invalided to England. Transferred to the 70th Battalion 2 April 1917 where he proceeded overseas to France on 16 July 1917 to Reinforce the 44th battalion. Wounded a second time on 11 October 1917 and suffered gunshot wounds to the head and a compound fracture of the skull. He was evacuated to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, England and was returned to Australia on the Hospital Ship H.S. Kanowna disembarking Fremantle 12 May 1918. It would appear that he was admitted to the No 18 Auxiliary Hospital, Fremantle on 27 July 1918 because his war injuries, as he had previously been discharged as medically unfit on 5 March 1918.

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