No.4695, Private, Alvah BUCKLE
Aged 22
no overseas service hence no medals.
11th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Died of Illness on 8th September 1915
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Harold Alvah Buckle was born in Tostock (2nd qtr 1893 Stow 4a:812), son of Amos and Beatrice Emily BUCKLE (née PEASEY).
1901 census...Aged 8, Alvah was at The Green, Tostock with his father Amos BUCKLE [37] a navvy born Thurston; his mother Beatrice [36]; brothers Jack [13] farm labourer; Bertie [10],and Claude [3]; sisters Winifred [11] born Thurston, Abegale (sic) [5] and Marjory [4 months]. All except his father and Winifred were born in Tostock 1911 census...Aged 18, farm labourer, he was still at The Green, Tostock with his parents, father now labourer on railway (G.E.R.) ; sisters Abigail, Marjorie Phyllis Stella and Rosalind Irene Joyce [4]; brothers Frederick Jack (horseman), Bertie (farm labourer), Clarence Claud, Vernon Oswen (sic) [8] and Russell Gilbert [2] The pension card has his parents in Tostock. At times he is Harold, other times Alvah. The Army used Alvah |
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He enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds. CWGC has him as A.BUCKLE. He died in Codford Military Hospital, Warminster, Wiltshire.
No medal index card has been found, but if he was always with the 11th Battalion, this would be due to no overseas service. 11th (Reserve) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment was formed in Devonport on 1 November 1914 as a Service Battalion of 100th Brigade, 33rd Division. Moved to Dartmouth in December and to Colchester in summer 1915.
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