Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Petty Officer 1st Class W. H. Buckland, Royal Navy - a veteran of service with the Naval Brigade at the Defence of Ladysmith, and in the cruiser H.M.S. Caroline at the Battle of Jutland, May 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (166362 A-B: W. H. Buckland, H.M.S. Powerful), large impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (166362 W. H. Buckland, P.O. 2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (166362 W. H. Buckland. P.O. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R (166362 W. H. Buckland, Boatn., H.M. Coast Guard.) light contact marks overall, therefore very fine or better (5) £600-800

William Henry Buckland was born in Portsea, Hampshire, in 1876, and joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class in 1894. He advanced to Able Seaman in September 1895, before being posted for service to H.M.S. Powerful in June 1897, and served during the Boer War ashore with the Naval Brigade during the Defence of Ladysmith. He left the Powerful in June 1900, and was advanced to Petty Officer 2nd Class in October 1903. In November of the same year he transferred to H.M. Coastguard, and spent the next ten years stationed in Ireland, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1911.

Buckland was recalled for service with the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the Great War. He served in H.M.S. Caroline (light cruiser), from December 1914 - June 1917, during which time she served as part of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1 June 1916. Promoted Petty Officer 1st Class, 10 August 1916, he returned to the Coastguard in Ireland for subsequent service. He died in Hampshire in 1940.