BUCKETT, Gordon Edward

Gordon was born 1920 in Newport to William Henry & Grace Agnes (nee BAKER) BUCKETT of 9 Cavendish Place Newport. He married to Joan WOODWARD in 1941 at St Olave Church in Gatcombe.

Gordon, aged 21, was Killed in Action on the 26th of November 1941 & was originally buried on the battlefield. His body was exhumed, identified by the grave marker, & reburied in the Knightsbridge War Cemetery in Lybia on the 19th July 1945 by soldiers of the 21st Graves Unit.

Gordon is buried beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the family inscription: “SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING TILL WE MEET AGAIN” with 3,650 of his Second World War comrades.

The graves of many of those who gave their lives during the campaign in Libya were later gathered into Knightsbridge War Cemetery from the battlefield burial grounds & from scattered desert sites. The men who fought & died with them, but have no known grave, are commemorated on The Alamein Memorial which stands in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

Gordon is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memoiral. His brother Douglas also served in the same regiment & was killed in Italy in 1943, also 21.