Remembering Today Casualty Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) BUCKLEY, JACK Service Number 1008481 Died 26/03/1942 Aged 22 61 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Son of John Albert and Mary Elizabeth Buckley, of Rochdale, Lancashire. INSCRIPTION: BEHIND THE SMILES THERE'S MANY A TEAR FOR THE ONE WE LOST AND LOVED SO DEAR Buried at REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Number of casualties: 7500 Cemetery/memorial reference: Coll. grave 22. F. 1-5.
1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION 13 Whitby Street, Rochdale C.B., Lancashire NAME DOB OCCUPATION John A Buckley 03 Oct 1881 Wsale Grocer & Provision Merchant, Own Account Mary E Buckley 12 Jan 1887 Unpaid Domestic Sorry, this record is officially closed.
26 March 1942 61 Squadron Manchester I L7518 QR- Op. Essen Took off from Woolfox Lodge at 2110 hours. Shot down be a night fighter(Oblt Helmut Woltersdorf. NJG1) and crashed 2209 hours at Wertherbruch, 8km west south west of Bocholt. Crew. Sgt. C G. Furby + Sgt. J R. Dow RCAF + Sgt. J E. Smart + Sgt. D C. Brockley + Sgt. J. Buckley + Sgt. W A. Roberts + Sgt. H H. Fetherston + Source - RAF Bomber Command Losses Vol.3 - W R. Chorley. During the course of 1942 RAF Bomber Command visited Essen on 37 occasions. 3724 aircraft were dispatched with 2674 attacking the target of Industry, Transport and Oil. 2214 tons of HE along with 2381 of Incendiaries were dropped. 191 aircraft were missing or lost.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 Name: John Albert Buckley Registration Year: 1908 Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun Registration district: Rochdale Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: Lancashire Volume: 8e Page: 121 Records on Page: Name John Albert Buckley Sarah Ann Buxton Joseph Keegan Mary Elizabeth Tipping England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005 Name: Jack Buckley Mother's Maiden Surname: Tipping Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1920 Registration district: Rochdale Inferred County: Lancashire Volume Number: 8e Page Number: 14 Name: Erie Buckley Mother's Maiden Surname: Tipping Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1918 Registration district: Rochdale Inferred County: Lancashire Volume Number: 8e Page Number: 36 ?? 10 years from marriage to first child?? TD