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Personal data

• Name BUCKLE
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Middlesborough
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Family Son of William and Martha Isabella Buckle, of 24, Crescent Rd., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; 11 brothers and sisters
• Education Ayresome School; Middlesbrough High School
• Profession Clerk in the salt union works

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 1 September 1914, Northallerton
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 69th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 23rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Enlisted as a private (n°1999), later Corporal (n°200384); entry date 18 April 1915; 25 May 1915 wounded right hip, chest and shoulder; 23 September 1915 promoted to Lance Corporal; 20 January 1916 Corporal; 7 July 1916 Temp.2nd Lt.;

Death

• Wounded 7 June, Hill 60, Zillebeke
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 7 June 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - B - 3

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