Lance Corporal Horace Buckley

Army Number: 1408

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Isaac and Sarah Ann Buckley, of 35, Buxton Road, Radford, Nottingham. He was ashphelter’s labourer prior to enlisting on 2nd August 1911 at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th February 1915 and was appointed Lance Corporal on 10th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Lance Corporal Horace Buckley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Radford, Nottingham 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Isaac Buckley, 2nd Battalion Royal Scots, also fell in the Great War.