2nd Lieutenant Wiliam BUCKLE
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
2nd Lieutenant Wiliam BUCKLE

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2nd Lieutenant Wiliam BUCKLE

2nd Lieutenant Wiliam BUCKLE
Photo : "Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery - Daily Reflections of the Great War"

2nd Lieutenant William BUCKLE.
8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Martha Isabella Buckle, of 24, Crescent Rd., Middlesbrough, Yorks, and the late William Buckle. Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 24.
Buried LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY.

The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"A Middlesbrough man, William Buckle was born in the town in 1893.
He served in the ranks of Yorkshire regiment as Private and Corporal before he was commissioned.
William Buckle and the 8th Battalion moved into the Ypres area in late April of 1917.
On the night of June 5th they moved up to the line in preparation for the Battle of Messines.
At 3-00am on June 7th 2nd Lt Buckle and his men left the trenches and lay out in front awaiting the explosion of 19 great mines whish had been tunnelled under the enemy lines along the Messines Ridge. After the explosions the battalion advanced skirting the craters of the mines as they went.
2nd Lt Buckle was wounded in this advance and died later in the day, June 7th 1917 at the age of 24.
His grave lies in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery to the south west of Ypres.
2nd Lt William Buckle is also remembered on Middlesbrough’s war memorial panels at the town's Albert Park.
He was the son of Martha Isabella and the late William Buckle of 24 Crescent Road in Middlesbrough."

Other photos seen in the website "Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery - Daily Reflections of the Great War".

2nd Lieutenant Wiliam BUCKLE

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