Group of senior officers at the presentation of the Legion of Merit (US) (Degree of Officer) to Air Commodore S Wallingford. RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
L-R: Air Commodore MW Buckley, Air Commodore S Wallingford, Rear Admiral RB Carney USN, Commodore SD Jupp USN (also having received the Legion of Merit), Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt.
Presentation of the Legion of Merit (US) (Degree of Officer) to Air Commodore S Wallingford. RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
L-R: Commodore SD Jupp USN, unknown, Rear Admiral RB Carney USN, Air Commodore MW Buckley, Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt, Chief of Air Staff.
No. 1 Squadron Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader HC Walker (left) and Air Commodore MW Buckley having a conversation on the tarmac in front of a Hudson. Guadalcanal.
Image from the Jack Way collection.
The RAF Station Feltwell Commanding Officer, Group Captain MW Buckley, speaking with a pilot in an office. RAF Station Feltwell.
Image from the Eric Coyle personal collection.
Flight Lieutenant GCU Buckley (right) sitting at the plotting desk in the Link Trainer room at RNZAF Station Taieri.
The New Zealand Governor General, Marshal of the RAF Sir Cyril Newall, greeting Squadron Leader HC Walker, Commanding Officer of No. 1 Squadron. Munda, New Georgia.
Air Commodore MW Buckley (far right).
The New Zealand Governor General, Marshal of the RAF Sir Cyril Newall, inspecting a Servicing Unit workshop. Ondonga, New Georgia.
Air Commodore MW Buckley is third from the left.
Departure of the First Lady of the United States, Elanor Roosevelt, from RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
Air Commodore MW Buckley (front) with (believed to be) the Chief of Navy, Commodore A Lake and the Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General E Puttick(right).
Group of officials at the air defence exercise in front of Hudson NZ2081. RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
7th from right; Air Commodore RV Goddard. 8th from right; Honourable F Jones, Minister of Defence. 9th from right; Group Captain MW Buckley.
Captain M Buckley (front seat) and Mr. TH McWilliams, Wireless Operator on the Southern Cross, sitting in Bristol Fighter 6856, before leaving for the Southern Tour. Wigram Aerodrome.
Officers of the three armed services walking in front of a line up of Baffin aircraft.
Believed to be the Wellington Territorial Squadron, at Rongotai airfield for the 1938 Air Pageant.
Near aircraft has practice bombs on racks under the wing.
L-R: unknown Army officer possibly the Governor General Lord Galway (?), Group Captain Ralph Cochrane, unknown Navy officer(ADC to the Governor General?), Wing Commander M Buckley.
Group of RNZAF officers in conversation. Bougainville [?]
L-R: Air Commodore MW Buckley, Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt, Squadron Leader JH Arkwright.
Group of officers gathered for the occasion of the arrival of Major General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC, RNZAF Station Whenuapai.
L-R: Air Commodore M Buckley, RNZAF, Commodore E Rotheram, RNZN, Captain SD Jupp, USN.
Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt and entourage during a visit to a forward area camp. Believed to be Bougainville.
L-R: Unknown, Wing Commander CWK Nicholls, Air Commodore MW Buckley (face obscured) and Air Vice Marshal LM Isitt.
A group of officers beside the New Zealand Fighter Wing scoreboard. Ondonga, New Georgia.
L-R: Air Commodore MW Buckley CBE, Air Commodore S Wallingford, Wing Commander TO Freeman DSO DFC, unknown airman, Sir Cyril Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM, Major General HE Barrowclough, New Zealand Army.
Group of officers presumed to be at the air defence exercises. RNZAF Station, Whenuapai.
L-R: Commodore E Rotherham, Major General P Bell and Air Commodore MW Buckley.
Group of No. 75 Squadron personnel beside a Wellington. RAF Station, Feltwell.
Front Row: far left; TO Freeman. 7th from left; Squadron Leader MW Buckley. 8th from left; Squadron Leader CE Kay. Far right; FJ Lucas (Popeye Lucas).
Maurice Buckley (right) and Harrington (left) in a Canterbury Aviation Company's Avro 504k, before flying to drop confetti on Captain Euan Dickson's wedding at St. Barnabas Church, Christchurch. Sockburn Aerodrome.
