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WAKLEY, Victor Oak
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 186 |
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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 |
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
Key Photo supplied by Family member