MILITARY FAMILY
SERVICE IN THE AIR FORCE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Apl. 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, who is only 30 years of age, is an old boy of Wanganui Technical College and he later attended Canterbury University College, where he obtained the degrees of bachelor of engineering 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. Pilot Officer Jack Buckley, a younger brother, was formerly well known as a pianist in Auckland. Just prior to the outbreak of war he 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 Dominions senior bandmaster and after 55 years in the military forces is still doing duty as bandmaster at the Papakura Military Camp.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24594, 30 April 1941, Page 5
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