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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 660

(x) Five: Sergeant C. H. Buckle, Highland Light Infantry, late King's Royal Rifle Corps, a Boer War veteran who was reported wounded in the "Roll of Honour" casualty list published by The Times on 1 January 1915

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9705 Corpl: C. Buckle. K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (6705 Sjt. C. Buckle, 1/K.R. Rif:C.); British War and Victory Medals (9705 Sjt. C. Buckle, K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (9705 Sjt. C. Buckle, K.R.R.C.), very fine and better (5)

Charles Henry Buckle was born in Paddington in 1876, the son of Maria and Henry Buckle and subsequently the husband of Flora Fotherby Colespy, of Richmond Upon Thames. He served in South Africa with the 1st Battalion, K.R.R.C, and continued to serve with them in the opening months of the Great War. It is likely he saw action in the Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, the Battle of the Aisne, the actions of the Aisne heights and the First Battle of Ypres. It was on the first day of the latter that he was reported wounded on 24 November 1914.

Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal on 1 July 1915, Charles subsequently transferred to a series of Highland Light Infantry battalions and largely spent the remainder of the war in reserve and at home; he was discharged after 22 years' service with the Colours on 28 June 1919 and died at Herne Bay, Kent, on 19 November 1949.


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