P02939.038

P02939.038

Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
Public Domain Mark This image is in the Public Domain

ID number P02939.038
Makers
  • Muntz (Photographer);
  • Muntz Studios (Photographer);
Object types
  • Black & white;
  • Portrait;
Places made
  • Australia: Victoria;
  • Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Malvern;
Physical description
  • Black & white;
  • Portrait;
Collection Photograph

Description

Studio portrait of 6594 Sergeant (Sgt) Maurice Vincent Buckley VC (served as Gerald Sexton), 13th Battalion. Sgt Buckley was awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery" on 18 September 1918, near Le Verguier, France. During an attack, Sgt Buckley and his section rushed down a bank to where an enemy party was manning a field gun, killing them all. He then returned to the bank, firing on the enemy with his machine gun inducing them to surrender. Sgt Buckley was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal on 8 August 1918, before returning to Australia, medically unfit in December 1919. He died on 27 January 1921 after being thrown from a horse.

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