Lieutenant Druce Hervey BUCKLAND
6th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps attached to the 1st Battalion

Date of birth: 20th August 1896
Date of death: 21st October 1963

Survived aged 67
Commemorated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium
Druce Hervey Bucland was born at "Undercliff", Double Bay, Woollahra, East Sydney New South Wales in Australia on the 20th of August 1896 the younger son of Thomas Buckland, a general merchant, of Kengie, Ascot in Berkshire and Ada Lucy (nee Greer) Buckland of Sydney, Australia.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1909. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1907, 1908 and 1909 and of the Football XI in 1908. The school magazine wrote the following on his 1907 cricket season: - "Is a good catch and promises well for the future in all departments of the game." Of his 1908 cricket season, they wrote: - "Should also, unless we are mistaken, make a name for himself in the XI of next summer; at present his defence requires stiffening, and his bowling lacks steadiness, but both are full of promise." Of his 1909 cricket season, they wrote: - "A brilliant but not reliable bat. Should make a fine batsman some day, when he has learned to take coaching properly. A fair fast bowler and a most brilliant field." They wrote the following on his 1908 football season: - "(Right half) - Has improved, but would probably be better suited at back; if only he will allow practice to perfect the strength of his left leg, next season may see him a shining light in defence." On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him in their edition of January 1910: - "...was-much to our regret - prematurely summoned to Eton owing to changes consequent upon the sudden death of a House Master. Leaving us at the end of the summer, he was robbed of the distinction of being Hazelwood's head boy. For sport of every description he has a natural capacity. Great as his loss to the football XI proved, it is on the cricket pitch, the hockey field and the racquet court that he is seen to pre-eminent advantage." He went on to Eton College where he was in A.E. Conybeare
Went on to Eton College

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