Description
Queen’s South Africa Medla, 6 bars, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, 5160 Private Edward Buckley, 2nd Middlesex Regiment, wounded in action during 1914.
Officially impressed: “5160 Pte E. Buckley, Middlesex Regt.”
Confirmed on the medal for all 6 bars. Also earned the KSA with both bars. Good combination of clasps.
“Gun Shot Wound to Leg Severe, slight fracture to tibia and foot, War Office List No 1721, 12th October 1914.”
Saw the following service:
Home, 16th Sept 1897 – 1st Dec 1899
South Africa, 2nd Dec 1899 – 15th Feb 1903
Home, 16th Feb 1903 – 15th August 1914
Expeditionary Force France, 16th August 1914 – 14th September 1914
Home, 15th September 1914 – 24th November 1915
India, 25th Nov 1915 – 12th May 1919
En route for UK, 13th May 1919 – 5th June 1919
Home, 6th June 1919 – 12th july 1919.
Total service 21 years 300 days.
Earned the 1914 Star with “Old Contemptible” Clasp and the British War and Victory Medal.
Papers show he was invalided home by 15th September 1914, so his wound must have occurred sometime between the first fighting at the Battle and Retreat from Mons between 23rd August 1914 and 15th September 1914.
At this time he was fighting with the 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment.
Western Mail 6th October 1914, recalls him on a list of “Wounded NCOs and Men from the Expeditionary Force to the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, under date 15th September.”
