Bob Buck (bushman)

Robert Henry Buck (2 July 1881 - 9 August 1960) was an Australian pastoralist, bushman and drover who is best remembered as being one of the people to recover the body of Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter.

[2] Buck was well respected and fondly regarded by the Aboriginal people living nearby Henbury Station and it is said he treated them well and was generous with rations compared to his contemporaries.

[4] During this period Buck frequently made lengthy visits to Hermannsburg, which was a Lutheran Mission being run by Carl Strehlow, as his daughter Ettie was living, alongside Elsie Butler, there with missionaries Emil and Clara[5] Munchenburg so that they could receive private tuition.

[6] In 1927 Buck left Henbury, and his uncles, and, in partnership with his long-term friend Alf Butler (father of Elsie), leased Middleton Ponds Station which there two would manage together until 1939.

[2] In February 1931 Buck, alongside Johnson Breaden, Lion, Billy Button, Ernest Gustav Brandon-Cremer a paid photographer who documented the expedition as well as several other men,[7] were commissioned to search for Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter and they found and buried his body.