Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private C. S. Buckley, Cheshire Regiment, who died on the Western Front on 27 May 1917

British War and Victory Medals (56842 Pte. C. S. Buckley. Ches. R.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Stott Buckley) in card envelope, extremely fine (3) £80-£100

Charles Stott Buckley, a native of Rochdale, Lancashire, attested for the service with the Cheshire Regiment during the Great War. Transferring to the Labour Corps, he died of sickness on 27 May 1917, and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.

Sold with unofficial paper memorial scroll relating to Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France, together with an original copy of the register for that cemetery and the accompanying original letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission, to the recipient’s father, dated 19 November 1923.