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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 29 March 09 21:22 BST (UK) »
One more charge and then be dumb,
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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 29 March 09 21:29 BST (UK) »
Have read a few of the other threads now - and gather Reginald Bucknall or Bucknell was his original name....

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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 29 March 09 21:52 BST (UK) »
So, what's the problem with this chap???

Reginald Bucknell 75653 of the Durham Light Infantry??

BWM and Victory on Anpestry

 ;D ;D ;D
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            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 29 March 09 22:32 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Scrimnet and Millymcb, for your replies and interest.
Reginald Bucknell of DLI has not been entirely ruled out but I need to check his address which is not obvious via Ancestry. But as he was awarded medals he doesn't fit the prescription of "our" Reginald Bucknall who if he had been killed during the war wouldn't presumably have been awarded medals at the end of it. Nor does it fit with the statement from one of his nearer relatives (than me) that he enlisted under an assumed name. I don't think there is any doubt about Reginald being a war casualty under an assumed name. I am awaiting to hear from CWGC to see if a next-of-kin search is possible.
If I had been his father I should have wanted his name on the Darlington War Memorial. That it is not there suggests something untoward.
My next step will be to read the book "Shot at Dawn" to see if there is a possible candidate fitting Reginald. It is believed he may have served in a labour battalion.
I have established today that Reginald was not at home at Darlington at the time of the 1911 census. Unfortunately, I can't find him anywhere in the country although I realise the census is not yet published for all areas. I wonder if he had gone to ground with an assumed name in 1911?. I have been told he had a bit of an unstable nature caused by the death of his mother at an early age and him not getting on with his step-mother. Evidently he once ran away from home to Scotland and had to be brought back.
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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 29 March 09 22:48 BST (UK) »
Even the dead got their medals.... ;)

And their is no address on the MIC...

He won't have served abroad until 1916/7 or even later...

I have "shot at dawn" Wait out I'll have a look...
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            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 29 March 09 22:51 BST (UK) »
"Blindfold and Alone" is the better book...

Nil Bucknell/Bucknalls in there at all...
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            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 29 March 09 22:54 BST (UK) »
And all the "AKAs" are accounted for in there...

He was not shot at dawn....One myth dispelled... ;) ;D
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 29 March 09 23:24 BST (UK) »
To Scrimnet
Thank you again. I think a visit to Kew will be necessary to establish if Reginald Bucknell is our man. The point is, I don't think he is. We need to find his address. Hence proceeding down other avenues in parallel.
I should be interested if you come up with anything from "Shot at Dawn". Would you advise me though to buy the other book on this subject - "Blindfold & Alone"? He won't of course be in under Reginald Bucknall but under his assumed name.
According to my late uncle (a professor of metallurgy so one not given to imaginitive statements) was Reginald had been sent to prison for stealing suitcases at London railway stations. At the outbreak of war (or possibly when conscription came in in 1916) he was sent to France in a labour battalion, he deserted, was caught and was shot. On the other hand my late uncle would only have been aged 8 at the time so he must have heard the story from an older relative. Hopefully, in one of these books where I believe the identity and background of the poor wretches is mentioned it may just be possible to identify our Reginald.
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Re: BUCKNALL - Darlington War Memorial (WW1)
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 29 March 09 23:27 BST (UK) »
To Scrimnet again

What, please, do you mean by AKAs?

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