Jack Pockley Commemoration 1918 - 2018 (long version)
Channel: Simon Pockley
Date: 02/05/2018

John (Jack) Graham Pockley was killed by a German machine gun on 30th March 1918 in France near Villers-Bretonneux. 100 years later family members gathered at the Australian War Memorial to commemorate his life and death. Jack was buried close to where he fell near Hangard Wood. However, after the war ended the dead were reburied in a small cemetery nearby. Somehow Jack's identity was lost but we suspect that the one grave in this cemetery for an unknown Australian Officer might be his.