AIRMAN PROMOTED
WiNG-COMMANDER AT 30
FAMILY'S FINE RECORD
News of the promotion of their elder son, Squadron-Leader 11. G. 11. Buckley, to the rank of wing-commander, has been received by Captain G. Buckley, Y.D., and Mrs. Buckley, of Market Road, Auckland. Wing-Commander Buckley is only 30. An old boy of Wanganui Technical College, Wing-Commander _ Buckley later attended Canterbury University College where he obtained the degrees of bachelor of engineering (civil) and bachelor of science. After leaving the university he was granted a commission in the Royal Air Force and left for England in 1935. He is at present engaged in important administrative work
A younger brother of Wing-Com-manc'lor Buckley is Pilot-Officer Jack Buckley, formerly well known as a pianist in Auckland. .Just prior to the outbreak of war Pilot-Officer Buckley was studying music in Berlin and Leipzig. Wing-Commander M. W. Buckley, M.8.E., who has been in charge of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron in England, is a cousin. Captain Buckley is the Dominion's senior bandmaster, and, after oo years in the military forces, is still doing duty as bandmaster at Papakura military camp.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23952, 30 April 1941, Page 11
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183AIRMAN PROMOTED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23952, 30 April 1941, Page 11
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