Private William Buckley

Army Number: 266949

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Quorn, Leicestershire. Son of William and Sarah Buckley, of 109, Pym Street, Gordon Road, Nottingham. He was a hosiery errand boy prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, age 22, in the attack on the German positions near Wieltje, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private William Buckley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.