RAOC Gazette - page 131
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1981 |
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| Early date | 1981 |
| Late date | 1981 |
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SUPPLY SPECIALISTS Staff Sergeant Majors W. Dobson ... Material Handling Trials Unit J.T.Kearney Ordnance Depot Antwerp Staff Quartermaster J. R. Darling T. Treveil Sergeants Central Ordnance Depot Bicester Composite Ordnance Depot Hong Kong Staff Sergeants J. P. Caroll . Material Handling Trials Unit P.Robinson Forward Ordnance D e p o t Dulmen Sergeants R . F . B r u c e ... Training Battalion and Depot G. C. Dawkins .... 3 Base Ammunition Depot J . F o s t e r ... Force Ordnance Company Belize B. J. Garforth(a) 87 Supply Depot T. M. Gilmartin Central Ammunition Depot B. Lambert(a) 4 Armoured Division Ordnance Company P. Marks . Central Ordnance Depot Bicester E. T. McConnell(a) ... 94 Locating Regiment Workshop G. O. D. Van-Spall 28 Amphibious Engineer Regiment Workshop P. Woolley Ordnance Depot Viersen Corporals R. A. Boneham(a) . 5 Field Force Ordnance Company 1 Armoured Division Engineer Regiment Workshop E. S. J. Day(a) Central Ordnance Depot Donnington D. Gelling Vehicle D e p o t Ashchurch A. Gemmell(a) RAOC Cyprus J. Higgins Central Ordnance Depot Chilwell D. W. Inskip(a) ... Ordnance Services Berlin D. M. H. Kilpatrick Corps Stores Company J. McGurk(a) ... 2 Armoured Division Head- quarters and Signal Regiment E. J. Roberts(a) 80 Supply Depot P. Schultz .... Training Battalion and Depot D. L. Sedgwick Composite Ordnance Depot Hong Kong E . S . T h o m p s o n ... Force Ordnance Company Belize G. Tomkinson Ordnance D e p o t Viersen R. O. R. Vansanden ... Composite Ordnance Depot Hong Kong D. Walsh(a) 79 Supply Depot J.White Central Ammunition D e p o t Kineton G. Woolley 7 Field Regiment RHA A.G.Browne Lance Corporals J. C. Brown(a) . Central Ammunition Depot Kineton L. J. Clarke(a) ... Combat Supplies Battalion S.J.Cook Central Ordnance Depot Bicester J. E. Cureton 45 Field Regiment Workshop J. S. Hutchlnson(a) Ordnance Depot Viersen P. Jones(a) 7 Armoured Workshop D. A. Jubbs(a) SO Missile Regiment Workshop L. M. Kennedy(a) 48 ACE Mobile Force Company N. R. Langton(a) 1 Armoured Division Ordnance Company B. W. Luxton 3 Base Ammunition Depot J. McNiven(a) Ordnance Depot Viersen A. Miller(a) 3 Armoured Division Ordnance Company J. Miller Central Ammunition Depot Kineton M. D. Palmer(a) ... 22 Air D e f e n c e Regiment Workshop R. J. Perry(a) ... Combat Supplies Battalion M. T. Seggie Combat Supplies Battalion I. M. Sharpe(a) . Ordnance Depot Northern Ireland J. Simpson(a) G Field Force Ordnance Company P. K. Sutcliffe(a) 5 Heavy Regiment Workshop D.Talbot 3 Base Ammunition Depot D. Toovey Corps Troops Ordnance Company M. A. Wilde(a) Training Battalion and Depot G. Young Central Ordnance Depot Donnington Privates S. J. Angllss 1 Armoured Division Ordnance Company J. B. Briggs Central Ordnance Depot Donnington N.Carey RAOC Cyprus P . A . C h e s h i r e ... 3 Base Ammunition D e p o t J.G.Clark 4 Armoured Division Workshop A.R.Harvey 7 Armoured Workshop P.S.Johnson Forward Ordnance Depot Dulmen P. W. Madeley ... Combat Supplies Battalion K. T. McCarter(a) 5 Field Force Ordnance Company P. J. McLaughlin ... 7 Armoured Workshop K. J. Moran(a) 1 Armoured Division Ordnance Company K. R. Morgans(a) 2 Armoured Division Ordnance Company G. Parsons(a) ... 3 Base Ammunition Depot S. R. Pearce 3 Armoured Division Ordnance Company THE BUCKLEY VC (Continued from page 329.) John Buckley's escape, after the events narrated in the above report, was almost miraculous. He jumped into the River Jumna and swam across through a hail of bullets from the mutineers. He was hit in the arm, but managed to struggle to the opposite shore. Utterly exhausted, for he was no longer a young man, and twenty five years in India had left a mark, Buckley fell un- conscious on the bank of the river, and was captured with a number of other British residents. On recovering consciousness, he was informed by one of his fellow prisoners, an eye-witness, of the massacre of his wife and family by the mutineers at the very time when he himself had been gallantly defending the fort. Heart-broken, he begged his captors to take his life too, but a Sepoy officer replied: " You are too brave a man to die like that." Eventually Buckley escaped and rejoined the British troops. Continually volunteering for the most hazardous tasks, and con- stantly risking his life, he nevertheless seemed to have a charmed life and survived to be commissioned for his services, receiving an appointment of Deputy Assistant Commissary of Ordnance. A severe attack of sunstroke, his third, rendered him unfit for some time, but on his recovery he was appointed Provost Marshal to the garrison at Meerut, where it was his duty to superintend the execution of one hundred and fifty mutineers. Shortly after, signs of returning ill-health becoming apparent, S. L. Sheard 3 Armoured Dlvlslon'Ordnance Company 48 ACE Mobile Force Company S. Southwlck 5 Heavy Regiment Workshop I. G. Tomkins(a) Force Ordnance Company Belize R. J. Whittall(a) ... Headquarters Northern Army Group K. Skelhorne VEHICLE SPECIALISTS Staff Sergeant Majors L. C. Goodenough ... British Army Training Unit Suflield Sergeants C . C . B r o o k s ... Composite Ordnance Depot Hong Kong P.A.Thomas Ordnance D e p o t Antwerp Corporals C. G.Colman C. Dobson D.Kennedy J. J. Littlejohn ... J.Park D.Riding K. J. Young(a) ... Vehicle Depot Ashchurch Vehicle D e p o t Ashchurch Ordnance Depot A n t w e r p Ordnance Depot Antwerp Vehicle DeDot Ashchurch Ordnance Depot Antwerp Ordnance Depot Northern Ireland Lance Corporals T.R.Clarke Vehicle Denot Ashchurch D. A. Cowell(a) ... Ordnance Depot Antwerp N. A. Softley(a) Vehicle Depot Ludgershall Privates P. Jenkerson-Kensole Vehicle Depot Ashchurch Ordnance Depot Antwerp Lowe(a) DISCHARGES—APRIL 1981 ROLL Conductors P. M. Staniforth, W. C. Wood- house, RSM J. Stephen, SSMs G. W. Brom- wich, E. Pluck, P. E. Rowe, RQMS P. Wightman, SQMS T. Smith, Staff Sergeants J. T. A. Doignie, W. H. Orchard, Sergeants P. B. Cox, G. N. Curtis, R. Dempsey, D. S. Learmonth, D. Link, Corporals D. Milton, P. G. Morrison, Lance Corporals E. J. Austin, W. Black, G. Buckley, A. N. David, L. A. Flood, S. J. Kelly, M. R. Morgan and Privates B. D. C. Clarke, P. Fitzpatrick, T. E. Hughes, C. F. O'Brien, C. L. Scantlebury and P, Vanstone. fa) Denotes posting in next higher rank. he was summoned before a medical board and advised to avail himself of their recommendation for leave of absence. Proceed- ing to Calcutta, he was granted two years' furlough in England. He left Calcutta on the SS Alma on the 18th May, 1858, and arriving in the United Kingdom on 6th July, reported to India House on the 9th July. On 31st July, 1858, John Buckley was ordered to proceed to Portsmouth and thereafter on the 2nd August, 1858, in the presence of the garrison of Portsmouth, paraded on Southsea Common, Lieutenant John Buckley, together with other brave men, received from the hands of Her Majesty Queen Victoria the highest honour which can be conferred on a British soldier, the Victoria Cross. John Buckley went home to Stalybridge in September, 1858. Unable to settle down in this country, he returned to India, eventually reaching the rank of Major. Unfortunately, further details of his life cannot be traced, but it is presumed he retired after many years of honourable service, and died in the country of his adoption. The VC came up for public auction in 1948, and was purchased, on behalf of Headquarters RAOC Officers Mess for One Hundred Guineas. As a result of the great interest shown in the Press on the subject of this early VC, a Mrs F. M. Patchett, of Bradford, wrote stating that she was a great niece of John Buckley, and had an oil painting of him wearing the VC. This painting was purchased by Brigadier G. C. H. Heron on behalf of 2 CCD, York, and presented by him again on their behalf to the Head- quarters Officers Mess on 19th November, 1948. Both the Victoria Cross and the painting of John Buckley wearing it, are on exhibition in the Corps Museum. — 352 — |
| Book number | R0404a |