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before training as a pilot. Once he was qualified, Buckler returned to his two-seater unit as a pilot. On 21 March 1916, he was lining up an attack on a French
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Infantry Life Regiment 117. After suffering a bad wound on the Western Front in September 1914, he applied for a transfer to the
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Buckler's father was a roofer, and
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In 1939, Buckler wrote his memoirs, entitled "Malaula! Der
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cut in and shot it down. The
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