In Memory of
MAURICE WILLIAM BUCKLEY
Sergeant (Observer)
1380001, 148 Sqdn. RAFVR
(Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Who died
on 02 April 1942
MAURICE WILLIAM BUCKLEY
Sergeant (Observer)
1380001, 148 Sqdn. RAFVR
(Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve)
Who died
on 02 April 1942
Remembered with honour
CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
He was an old County (now Grammar) School, and was with the Imperial Airways Corporation in the accounts branch before joining the RAFVR in 1940.
He had been in the Middle East since the beginning of January 1942, where his squadron were officially based in Egypt.
However, on the night he died, elements of the squadron were operating from Malta when, on the evening of 23rd April 1942 at 20:45 hours, Vickers Wellington BB483 took off from Luqa in Malta to bomb the enemy airfield at Comiso in Sicily.
During the early hours of 24th April 1942, the Wellington was shot down over the Island above Acate and all of the crew except the Captain, Flt/Lt Hayter were killed.
Those who lost their lives are buried in the Catania War Cemetery in Sicily, Italy. Sergeant Buckley lies in collective grave IV.L. 24.
Sebastiano Giannitto, 2009-09-11
