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(From Our Own Rcpurter) GREYMOUTH. An Australian visitor who was on a conducted tour of the West Coast died last week, and was interred in the Greymouth R.S.A. plot in the Karoro Cemetery on Friday. Mr Patrick Dennis Buckby, aged 83, who served in the Australian forces during World War I became the first overseas serviceman to be buried in the plot. His family requested that Mr Buckby, who was fromj Townsville, Queensland, be j buried in Greymouth.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33463, 19 February 1974, Page 15
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