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NAME: Buckle, Matthew Perceval

RANK: Major

UNIT: Royal West Kent Regiment

BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER:

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 27th October 1914 Neuve Chapelle

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France

OTHER INFORMATION: DSO., MID. Age 45. Born 10th April 1869 at Ambleside, Westmoreland. Served in the South African War. In probate same address as father. Son of Admiral Claude Edward & Elizabeth P Buckle, R.N. of The Red House, Raithby, Spilsby, Lincoln. Husband of Marjorie Ethel Grace Buckle of Sansthorpe Hall, Spilsby, Lincs, married 1909. She remarried and became Knox-Shaw.