Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms
Lot 583
A Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque to Private R.S. Buckley, 15th Battalion, Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles, Killed in Action 28th March 1918. British Victory Medal (535540 Pte. R.S. Buckley. 15-Lond.R.), nearly extremely fine Bronze Memorial Plaque 'Robert Stanley Buckley', with enclosure slip and in card box of issue. The History of the Prince of Wales Civil Service Rifles, published by Somerset House 1921. Official War Office correspondence to Mrs E. Buckley, wife of above. Silver and enamel 'sweetheart brooch' Civil Service Rifles. Private Robert Stanley Buckley of the 15th Battalion Prince of Wales Civil Service Rifles, late of 9 Sanhill Road, Maida Vale, London and former clerk with the Savings Bank Department, Blythe Road, Kensington, London, was killed in action, whilst attached th the 9th battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) on the 28th March 1918, during the German Spring offensive of that year, he was 27 years old. Because of the intensity of the fighting during that period Rifleman Buckley was buried where he fell on the battlefield, his body was later exhumed and re-intered in the Chauny Communal Cemetery, where a headstone bears his name, he is remembered with honour.
