Victor Oak WAKLEY

WAKLEY, Victor Oak

Service Number: 186
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born: Yea, Victoria, 1880
Home Town: Kobyboyn, Murrindindi, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Enteric fever, Kroonstadt, South Africa, Kroonstad, South Africa, 21 May 1900
Cemetery: Kroonstad Old Cemetery, Free State, South Africa
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Yea St. Luke's Anglican Church Private Victor Wakley Memorial Plaque, Yea War Memorial
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Biography

Victor Oak WAKLEY was born in 1880 in Victoria

His parents were Victor James WAKLEY and Elizabeth (Bessie) BRADLEY

He joined the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles - they left Victoria for South Africa on 14th January, 1900 on the ship Euryalus

He died of Enteric Fever at Kroonstad, South Africa

Victor is memoralized in the Kroonstad Garden of Remembrance & also in St Lukes Anglican Church in Yea, Victoria

Monuments Australia - Victor Oak Wakley 

 

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