BUCKLEY W.
Walter Buckley
Private 18052
9th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Walter Buckley died on Saturday 16th September 1916, aged 24 years, and was remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
He was born c1892 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents William & Ellen Buckley. In 1891, William Buckley was recorded as a Coal Miner and a native of Codnor, Derbyshire. His wife was born in Sutton. On the 1901 census the family were living at 4 Chatsworth Street, Sutton.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Buckley, Private W., Sherwood Foresters.*
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry’
BUCKLEY
Walter. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts,
enlisted Doncaster. 9th Bn., King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry, Private
18052, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 16th September 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
* This source has many similar errors.
