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Ultimate Frontier Survival - Escaped Convict Former Soldier William Buckley the 'Wild White Man'.

The True story of William Buckley (1780 – 30 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, and was given up for dead while he lived in an Aboriginal community for many years. Buckley's improbable survival is believed by many Australians to be the source of the vernacular phrase "you've got Buckley's or none" (or simply "you've got Buckley's"), which means "no chance", or "it's as good as impossible". According to one source Buckley was born in Marton, Cheshire, England, to Eliza Buckley. In the book The life and adventures of William Buckley his place of birth is, however, given as Macclesfield. Buckley had two sisters and one brother. At around the age of six he was being raised by his mother's father in Macclesfield. He was apprenticed to a bricklayer, Mr. Robert Wyatt, but left to enlist in the King's Foot Regiment. He was soon transferred to the King's Own Regiment. In 1799 his regiment went to the Netherlands to fight against Napoleon, under the command of the Duke of York, where Buckley suffered an injury to his hand. Later, in London, Buckley was convicted of knowingly receiving a bolt of stolen cloth; he insisted he was carrying it for a woman and did not know it was stolen. He was sentenced to transportation to the Colony of New South Wales for 14 years.