Harry, 15, survives shipwreck

By Jamieson Murphy
Updated April 24 2014 - 9:50am, first published April 22 2014 - 9:08pm
SERVICE: Wyee Point resident Harry Buckley served in the Merchant Navy, Civil Construction Corps and the Australia Army. Picture: Jamieson Murphy
SERVICE: Wyee Point resident Harry Buckley served in the Merchant Navy, Civil Construction Corps and the Australia Army. Picture: Jamieson Murphy

HARRY Buckley was only 15 when he joined the Merchant Navy in 1940, and within a year he was shipwrecked on a small, isolated reef near Papua New Guinea.

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