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- 大象传媒 Cumbria Volunteer Story Gatherers
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- Submitted by the widow of Lt Col. Donald BB Buckley
- Location of story:听
- UK, India, Burma, Singapore and Germany
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A7342274
- Contributed on:听
- 27 November 2005
Donald joined the KSLI in 1942 and was trained initially in Shrewsbury. From there he was posted to India where he attended OCTU and was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regt. He was then sent to Burma and joined the 1st Northamptons. He saw a great deal of action in the jungle and even led a small group behind the Jap lines to collect some personal items which had been inadvertently left in a trench by one or two members of the Coy, and posed a problem of identification should the Japs have found them! Unfortunately they had to find their way through a trip wire they had laid for the enemy - in the dark both ways!! Fortunately they succeeded.
Then at Imphal Donald was wounded in the thigh by shrapnel and flown out to India for surgery. From there he was posted to Singapore as a statistician and from there in 1947 he was posted to Germany as a technical officer in charge of the machine room of Hellerith Statistics and later on with computers.
We met in 1951 in the Garrison Church in Bad OlynHausen, Germany. Our first child was born in Rinteln which funnily enough is twinned with Kendal.
In 1957 having served in the War Office from 1956 we were posted to Singapore and spent three very happy years there. After another spell in the War Office, deeply involved with computers Donald retired from the Army.
He died in 2002 and is sorely missed!!
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