NUMBER:

VX103873

BATTALION / UNIT / SHIP:

13 Armoured Regiment

PLACE OF BIRTH:

Yarram 13 August 1914

NEXT OF KIN:

Bernard Buckley, his father. He was the son of Bernard Edmund and Ada Kate Buckley of Buffalo

PLACE & DATE OF ENLISTMENT:

2 September 1942 Caulfield

LOCATION ON ENLISTMENT:

South Melbourne

OCCUPATION:

Stockman and professional runner

DATE & PLACE OF DEATH:

16 November 1942 at Puckapunyal as a result of a tank accident, aged 28.

LOCATION OF GRAVE/MEMORIAL:

He is buried in Springvale War Cemetery. He is on memorials in Leongatha and Tarwin Lower.

RELATIONSHIP TO WOORAYL SHIRE:

He lived in Buffalo on his family's property.

MILITARY/OTHER HISTORY:

Paul had some success as a foot runner competing in gifts throughout Victoria.

Paul enlisted in September 1942 and was placed in the 13th Armoured Regiment. He had been training at Puckapunyal for around 9 weeks when he was killed in a tank accident.

The following appeared in The Age

Five of the seven occupants of a General Grant training tank

were killed when the tank overturned near Melbourne.

Two other occupants escaped injury.

Those killed were:-

Corporal Paul William Buckley of Buffalo

Trooper John McKenzie Russell of Orbost

Trooper Keith Joyce of Murrumbeena

Trooper Gordon Stewart McLeod of Mooroopna