DASH & COURAGE
DISPLAYED BY WARRANT OFFICER SEVERAL HUNDRED PRISONERS CAPTURED. REMARKABLE SINGLE-HANDED EXPLOIT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) RUGBY, May 16. The single-handed capture of a large number of prisoners, such as might have been the subject of a schoolboy's dream adventure, gained an award of the D.C.M. for Warrant-Officer C. T. Buckley. The official account, says: “During a recent battle, he displayed such resource and courage that he captured several hundred prisoners single-’ handed. On one occasion h.is armoured car was escorting a. party of prisoners] and, in the darkness, missed its squad- 1 ron. His party encountered a group of the enemy, and although the accompanying lorries were unarmed, War-rant-Officed Buckley attacked with such dash that the enemy, after suffering a few casualties, surrendered. “On the following morning, whilp again escorting a party of prisoners, he attacked an enemy fort with his antitank rifle and captured the garrison. “On both, occasions Warrant-Officer Buckley was acting alone and without wireless and he has throughout the operations set a magnificent example of boldness and determination."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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