Captain Edward Sterling BUCKLEY
6th Divisional Ammunition Column and 77th (Howitzer) Battery, 7th (Indian) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Date of birth: 22nd November 1892
Date of death: 13th December 1981

Died aged 89
Unknown
Edward Sterling Buckley was born at Omagh in Ireland on the 22nd of November 1892 the son of Colonel Edward James Buckley, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Edith Agnes Buckley of Earlsfort Place, Dublin 8, later of Milton, Pembrokeshire in Wales.

He left Hazelwood School at December 1905 where he was a member of the Football XI in 1905. The school magazine wrote the following on his season that year: - "(Goal keeper) - Not an ideal custodian, but possessed of many valuable qualities; slow on starting, and an uncertain kick, but has quite a talent for anticipating shot, and loses no time in parting with the ball."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - "He has been with us too short a time to have made much of a mark at games, but is full of enthusiasm."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Awdry’s and Orange Houses from January 1906 to 1909.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Artillery on the 17th of June 1911. On the 10th of August 1914 he was posted to the Heavy Portion of No.4 Section, 6th Divisional Ammunition Column at Woolwich. He landed in France, with his unit, on the 10th of September 1914.

In January 1915 he was serving with the 3rd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Royal Field Artillery and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 9th of June 1915. On the 23rd of June 1916 he embarked at Devonport aboard the SS “Commonwealth” for duty in India with a Royal Field Artillery draft. He served in Mesopotamia from later in 1916 to 1918. He was appointed as Acting Captain from the 7th to the 25th of September 1917 and was promoted to Captain on the 3rd of November the same year.

He was married at Mussoorie in Bengal to Nora Eileen (nee Murphy) on the 25th of August 1918.

In 1919 he served on the North West Frontier with the 77th (Howitzer) Battery Royal Field Artillery during the Afghan War. From the 16th of February 1920 he served in India with 1st (Cassipore) Brigade, Mobile Artillery, Indian Defence Corps in Calcutta as Adjutant, serving in that capacity until 1922 when he joined the 35th (Howitzer) Battery, 2nd Brigade at Lahore. He returned from India in early 1923 after six years service there and resigned his commission on the 18th of February 1923.

He served as a Captain in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in the Royal Artillery in World War Two and was promoted to Major on the 12th of May 1940 when he was appointed as a Garrison Adjutant.

He lived at “The Forge” Underriver, Sevenoaks in Kent and later at Wellington House, 47 Wellington Road, Bournemouth. He died at Bournemouth.
Went on to Wellington College

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