AIRMAN’S PROMOTION

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 182, 30 April 1941, Page 6

AIRMAN’S PROMOTION

Wing Commander At Age

Of 30

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 29.

News of the promotion of their elder son, Squadron Leader R. G. R. Buckley, to the rank of wing commander has been received by Captain G. Buckley and Mrs. Buckley, of Auckland.

Wing Commander Buckley is only 30 years old. An old boy of Wanganui Technical College, he later attended Canterbury University College, where he obtained the degrees of bachelor of engineering and bachelor of science. After leaving 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 is Pilot Officer Jack Buckley, formerly well known as a pianist in Auckland, Just before 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 55 years in the military forces, is still doing duty as bandmaster at Papakura military camp.