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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 432

A tragic family collection to brothers who died of wounds

The funeral took place with full military honours on Monday of Pte. Frederick George Buck, Lincoln Regt., son of Mr. R. T. Buck, 65, Oxford-road. Bearers and a firing arty were kindly provided by Col. Dobbin, of the O.T.C., Trinity College. A short service was held at the Holy Sepulchre Church, the Rev. S. T. Adams officiating. Pte. F. G. Buck was the only remaining son of Mr. Buck, and was 19 years of age. He died of wounds on Nov. 6th received in France on Oct. 13th, being stuck by a shell as he was leaving the lines for a rest. His elder brother, Pte. Bertram Reginald Buck, Wilts Regt., was wounded on April 18th, 1916, and died the same day, at the attempted relief of Kut.

(The Cambridge Independent Press, 15 November 1918, refers)

Four: Private B. R. Buck, 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, who died of wounds on 18 April 1916

1914-15 Star (10396 Pte. B. R. Buck. Wilts: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10396 Pte. B. R. Buck. Wilts. R.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Bertram Reginald Buck), good very fine

Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Frederick George Buck), sold together with original dog tags, very fine and uniquely named

Bertrum Reginald Buck was born at Titchfield, Hampshire in April 1895, the son of Reginald and Ada Buck of Holme Lacy, Hereford. Working as a joiner prior to the outbreak of the Great War, he attested with the Wiltshire Regiment and entered the war in France on 11 December 1914. Later transferring to the 5th Battalion they saw action in the Mediterranean first at Cape Helles and then at ANZAC Cove.

With the evacuation of the Peninsula the Battalion was posted to Egypt and was dispatches to Mesopotamia in January 1916. Here they served with the 13th (Western) Division during the attempts to relieve the garrison at Kut. They were part in the action at Bait Isa between 17-18 April 1916 and it was likely here that Buck was mortally wounded. He died on 18 April and is buried at the Amara War Cemetery.

Frederick George Buck was born at Worstead, Norfolk in January 1899, the son of Reginald and Ada Buck of Holme Lacy, Hereford. Still a child when the war broke out Buck lost his brother in 1916 and enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment himself upon turning eighteen. Entering the war in 1918 Buck was wounded by a shell in October 1918, tragically close to the end of the war. He was invalided to Britian and is listed as dying at a Military Hospital in Nottingham on 6 November 1918. Buck was buried at Cambridge (Mill Road) Cemetery.

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