John Graham Antill Pockley

Graham Antill Pockley was also the son of Dr. Francis Antill Pockley and Helen Clare Pockley, (nee Hooke), of Greystanes, Bums Road, Wahroonga. He was born at North Sydney on 14th August 1891 and was married to Nancy Julia Pockley, (nee Sargood), the daughter of Frederick Sargood of Rippon Grange, Water Street, Wahroonga. On joining the A.I.F. his place of enlistment was given as Wahroonga and he was described as a Grazier.
He was killed in action on the day of the start of the first Battle of VillersBretonneux. He is commemorated on the VillersBretonneux Memorial, Somme, France, (memorial Panel 122), which is the Australian national memorial, erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. The 10,700 Australian servicemen actually named on the memorial died in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918 and the Advance to Victory. The names on this Memorial are engraved in order of battalion, then alphabetically under rank.
On the Wahroonga War Memorial he is shown as having enlisted in 1915. His name also appears on the War Memorial of St. Andrews Anglican Church Wahroonga.