Private Percy Buckland

Army Number: 12181

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of John Richards and Mary Ann Buckland, of 27 Mount Street, New Basford, Nottingham. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Commemorated: La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

Private Percy Buckland is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Radford, Nottingham.
St. Augustines Chuech War Memorial, (St Leodegarius Church, Basforld Nottingham.)
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.