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Alvah Clarence “Bucky” Buckmore Sr.

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Alvah Clarence “Bucky” Buckmore Sr.

Birth
South Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Death
3 Dec 1982 (aged 66)
USA
Burial
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec.17, Region 9, Lot 22A
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Alvah Buckmore, Sr., was a veteran of the Second World War and fought in the North African campaign and Western Europe. In June of 1944 he participated in the Invasion of Normandy in the fourth wave of the Utah Beach. Then, after fighting half-way across western Europe, during the "Battle of the Bulge," he was shot for the third and last time in December of 1944.

From 1939 to 1945 he served in the United States Army; after his third battle wound he was sent home to the state of Maine and discharged around April of 1945. With his family he migrated to Massachusetts around 1952 to find gainful employment. His first job in Massachusetts was that of an automobile mechanic at Westfield Ford, an automobile dealership. I can still remember it well although still a child of 8 or 9 years of age.

One of 15 children, resulting from a marriage in 1905 between Luther Arthur Buckmore and Mary Foster, he married Mary Reina Begin in August 11, 1941 and fathered four boys: Alvah, Jr., James Raymond, David Edward and Cylde Robert.

His wife of 41 years died in July of 1994.

The Black & White photograph in the upper right-hand corner is that of my parents taken in 1955 at the Bonnie Rigg Restaurant in Becket, Massachusetts.

Alvah Buckmore, Sr., was a veteran of the Second World War and fought in the North African campaign and Western Europe. In June of 1944 he participated in the Invasion of Normandy in the fourth wave of the Utah Beach. Then, after fighting half-way across western Europe, during the "Battle of the Bulge," he was shot for the third and last time in December of 1944.

From 1939 to 1945 he served in the United States Army; after his third battle wound he was sent home to the state of Maine and discharged around April of 1945. With his family he migrated to Massachusetts around 1952 to find gainful employment. His first job in Massachusetts was that of an automobile mechanic at Westfield Ford, an automobile dealership. I can still remember it well although still a child of 8 or 9 years of age.

One of 15 children, resulting from a marriage in 1905 between Luther Arthur Buckmore and Mary Foster, he married Mary Reina Begin in August 11, 1941 and fathered four boys: Alvah, Jr., James Raymond, David Edward and Cylde Robert.

His wife of 41 years died in July of 1994.

The Black & White photograph in the upper right-hand corner is that of my parents taken in 1955 at the Bonnie Rigg Restaurant in Becket, Massachusetts.

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