Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Marine C. P. Buckle, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who served ashore in the Dardanelles and France and with the Special Naval Party on the Caspian with Dunster Force in 1918

1914-15 Star (Ch.18269 C. P. Buckle. Pte. R.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.18269 Pte. C. P. Buckle. R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (Ch.18269 (Ch.B.2791) C. P. Buckle. Mne. R.F.R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

Charles Peter Buckle was born at Tottingham Watton, Norfolk on 30 November 1895. He enlisted into in the Royal Marines on 9 December 1913, as Private at the Royal Marines Depot at Deal. He saw sea service in S.S. Duchess of Devon, which had been requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as an armed boarding steamer. He served in the Dardanelles with the M.E.F. in 1916 and from May 1916 to December 1917 served ashore in France receiving a gun shot wound to the left arm in February 1917. He subsequently served at Chatham, and was posted to H.M.S. Venus in 1918. In August 1918 he served ashore with the Special Naval Party with Dunster Force in the Caspian. He was discharged from Chatham Division in March 1922, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was awarded the Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service Medal in February 1934 and died at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in December 1992.