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Three: Pilot Officer W. Buckel, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Lancaster pilot with...
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Three: Pilot Officer W. Buckel, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Lancaster pilot with 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, who was killed in action during a raid on Berlin on 23-24 November 1943
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘H. R. Buckel Esq., 113, Rochester Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent’, extremely fine (3) £280-£340
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William Buckel was born in Clapham, London, on 29 May 1924, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 16 August 1943. Posted to 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, based at R.A.F. Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire, in September 1943, he flew 12 operational sorties as a Lancaster pilot with his crew over the next couple of months, before embarking on his 13th mission, a raid on the ‘Big City’, Berlin, on the night of 23-24 Novemebr 1943. Taking off at 17:16 in Lancaster LM373, they failed to return, and were posted a missing the following day. Believed to have been shot down, his remains, along with the rest of his crew, were later identified, and all are buried in Berlin War Cemetery. His medals were sent to his father, Horace Roland Buckel.
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1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘H. R. Buckel Esq., 113, Rochester Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent’, extremely fine (3) £280-£340
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William Buckel was born in Clapham, London, on 29 May 1924, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 16 August 1943. Posted to 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, based at R.A.F. Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire, in September 1943, he flew 12 operational sorties as a Lancaster pilot with his crew over the next couple of months, before embarking on his 13th mission, a raid on the ‘Big City’, Berlin, on the night of 23-24 Novemebr 1943. Taking off at 17:16 in Lancaster LM373, they failed to return, and were posted a missing the following day. Believed to have been shot down, his remains, along with the rest of his crew, were later identified, and all are buried in Berlin War Cemetery. His medals were sent to his father, Horace Roland Buckel.
Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
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Three: Pilot Officer W. Buckel, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Lancaster pilot with 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, who was killed in action during a raid on Berlin on 23-24 November 1943
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘H. R. Buckel Esq., 113, Rochester Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent’, extremely fine (3) £280-£340
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William Buckel was born in Clapham, London, on 29 May 1924, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 16 August 1943. Posted to 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, based at R.A.F. Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire, in September 1943, he flew 12 operational sorties as a Lancaster pilot with his crew over the next couple of months, before embarking on his 13th mission, a raid on the ‘Big City’, Berlin, on the night of 23-24 Novemebr 1943. Taking off at 17:16 in Lancaster LM373, they failed to return, and were posted a missing the following day. Believed to have been shot down, his remains, along with the rest of his crew, were later identified, and all are buried in Berlin War Cemetery. His medals were sent to his father, Horace Roland Buckel.
Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘H. R. Buckel Esq., 113, Rochester Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent’, extremely fine (3) £280-£340
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William Buckel was born in Clapham, London, on 29 May 1924, and was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 16 August 1943. Posted to 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, based at R.A.F. Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire, in September 1943, he flew 12 operational sorties as a Lancaster pilot with his crew over the next couple of months, before embarking on his 13th mission, a raid on the ‘Big City’, Berlin, on the night of 23-24 Novemebr 1943. Taking off at 17:16 in Lancaster LM373, they failed to return, and were posted a missing the following day. Believed to have been shot down, his remains, along with the rest of his crew, were later identified, and all are buried in Berlin War Cemetery. His medals were sent to his father, Horace Roland Buckel.
Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
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