Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT 'Mashobra’ A 47 for Egypt on 8.2.1915.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 3rd Light Horse Brigade, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ‘A’ Squadron.
Lukin disembarked at Egypt and underwent a period of intensive training. Lukin was briefly hospitalised after a knee injury when his horse  was unsettled by a camel  McMullin. R. 2012 p 438-439)he embarked with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) at Alexandria for Gallipoli 16.5.1915. Lukin disembarked with his unit at Gallipoli. The 3rd Brigade of the 10th Light Horse Regiment participated in the assault on the Nek, Walkers Ridge, Gallipoli, 7.8.1915. Lukin was KIA together with many other officers and men in this charge. He was buried in the field and is now commemorated at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Cannakkale Province, Turkey. His death was reported in  local newspapers (Sunday Times 24.10.1915 and the Sun Kalgoorlie 31.10.1915).
Final Rank Trooper.
Medical Condition Deceased, KIA.
Awards and Medals 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Lukin was killed in the charge at the Nek with a number of men who had previously attended Guildford Grammar School, including the Harper brothers.

Photos  SLWA 6803B. Dudley Lukin 10th Light Horse c1914. Photograph reproduced with permission of the State Library Board of Western   Australia
               Walker's Ridge -10LH survivors after the 7.8.1915 Charge. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P0516.005
              Kalgoorlie Sun 31.10.1915
               SS 'Mashobra'. Photographer unknown, photograph source Naval Collection AWM P10509.023.001

Information Source
AWM P0516.005. Walker's Ridge -10LH survivors after the 7.8.1915 Charge. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial 
AWM P10509.023.001. SS 'Mashobra'. Photographer unknown, photograph source Naval Collection  from the Australian War Memorial
AWM C04186. Cemetery near Lone Pine 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Dudley Lukin
AWM Roll of Honour- Dudley Lukin
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
Guildford Grammar School War Memorial
Guildford War Memorial
LSWA 6802B. Dudley Lukin 10LH c1914. Reproduced with the permission of the State Library Board of Western Australia.  http//purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b3878552_1 
McMullin. R.  Farewell Dear People. Pub. Scribe 2012
NAA: B2455, Lukin Dudley
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
St Matthew’s Fallen
Sun, Kalgoorlie
Sunday Times

‘Haisthorpe’, Beverley, WA.
 

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