A fine Great War M.C. group of eleven awarded to Colonel C. D. M. Buckley, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. C. D. M. Buckley, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major C. D. M. Buckley); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (Capt. C. D. M. Buckley, M.C., R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937, privately engraved, ‘Lt. Col. C. D. M. Buckley’; Belgium, Order of Leopold I, Officer’s breast badge, with swords, gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, generally good very fine (11) £1800-2200

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Charles Dudley Maybury Buckley was born at Glengeary, Ireland in December 1890 and qualified in medicine in Dublin.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1914, he embarked for France that October and remained actively employed in the same theatre of war until 1917, when he transferred to the Italian front in the acting rank of Major. He was awarded the M.C. and mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917, refers).

Seconded to the Colonial Office in 1919, he embarked for East Africa and served in the Somaliland operations of 1920 (Medal & clasp), prior to taking up a post as a specialist in pathology in India, where he was advanced to substantive Major in August 1926. Latterly employed there as Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology in Baluchistan District 1928-30, and at the Enteric Laboratory in Kasauli, he returned home in 1933, to take up appointment as Pathological Specialist at the Royal Victoria Hopsital, Netley. Having then served again in India - as a Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology in Madras 1936-38 - he was appointed Assistant Director of Pathology in Southern Command in 1938 and, by the renewal of hostilities, was serving as Assistant Director of Hygiene and Pathology at G.H.Q.

Re-embarked for India in 1941, he next served in the rank of Colonel as Commanding Officer of the British Military Hospital at Bangalore, following which, in 1944, he returned home to take up appointment as Commanding Officer of the Military Hospital at Shenley. In the following year, however, he was appointed Commanding Officer of 111 General Hospital in North-West Europe, in which capacity he added the Belgian Order of Leopold I (London Gazette 14 May 1948, refers), and another “mention” to his accolades (London Gazette 4 April 1946, refers).

Buckley was placed on the Retired List in February 1947, having ended his career as Commanding Officer of Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot. He died in London in June 1961.