Corporal Horace Buckland
Army Number: 25388
Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Bulwell, Nottingham and lived at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of John Thomas and Annie Maria Buckland, of 39, Northcote Street, Bulwell. Husband of Eliza Buckland. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 2nd November 1916. by German shellfire while serving in the trenches near Arras, France.
Buried : Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row F. Grave 10.
Corporal Horace Buckland is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary the Virgin Church War Memorial, Bulwell, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.