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Australian
Victoria Cross Recipient
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Sergeant Maurice Vincent Buckley (alias
Gerald Sexton) |
| Unit |
13th Battalion |
| Born |
13 April 1891 at Hawthorn, Victoria |
| Date of action |
18 September 1918 |
| Place |
Le Verguier, near St Quentin, France |
| Details |
During an advance Buckley’s battalion
set off behind a creeping barrage and cleared several enemy
outposts, two of which fell to Buckley’s Lewis gun. When a field
gun held up one company he rushed towards it, shot the crew and
raced under machine-gun fire across open ground to put a trench
mortar out of action. He then fired into an enemy dug-out and
captured thirty Germans. By the end of the day he had rushed at
least six machine-gun positions, captured a field gun and taken
nearly 100 prisoners. |
| Died |
27 January 1922 following a horse-riding
accident |
| Buried or Commemorated |
Brighton Cemetery, Melbourne,
Victoria, after a funeral with ten Victoria Cross recipients as
pall-bearers |
| Current location of the
VC |
Australian War Memorial |
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