BUCKLEY, Jack
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
8 Commando
'Layforce'
'Special Raiding Squadron'
Regiment/Corps:
North Staffordshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
5051681
P.O.W. number:
261421
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, December 7, 1917
Jack Buckley, a Roofing Tile Maker from Burton on Trent, enlisted into the Armed Forces on 15 January 1940 later volunteering for the commandos. He deployed with No.8 Commando for operations in the Middle East as part of Layforce. Subsequently joined the Special Air Service. Lance Corporal Jack Buckley attached to the Special Raiding Squadron was reported missing 4 October 1943 during operations at Termoli, later confirmed prisoner of war. Post war Jack lived with his wife Gladys and children in the Measham area.
In April 1943 the 1st SAS Regiment was restyled as the Special Raiding Squadron and undertook raids in Sicily and Italy alongside the 2nd Special Air Service, which came into existence in May 1943 in Algeria. The Special Raiding Squadron was commanded by Major Robert Blair Mayne.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/68, 69, and 94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and 11.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/46/2.
Plaque is at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.
[Image] Article in the Burton Daily Mail 7/10/1996, p.16.
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