OBITUARY
LIEUT.-COLONEL G. A. M.
BUCKLEY
(Received November 16, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 15. The death has occurred of Lieut.dolohel George Alexander Maclean Buckley, of Christchurch, New Zea* land. . Lieut-Colonel George Alexander. Maclean Buckley was born in the Heathcote Valley, New Zealand, in 1866, and was the, second son of the late George Buckley. He was educated at Christ's College and at Chel* tenham. He entered the Army in 1885, was gazetted to the East Lancashire and Hampshire Regiments, and was with the New Zealand Forces until 1900. He served in the European War from 1914 to 1918, won the C.S.O. in 1916, and in 1915 was appointed to command the 47th Brigade in the 16th (Irish) Division. He was a member of an exploration party which went to Patagonia in 1897 and of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition in 1908. He married Miss Mabel Warren, who died in 1929, and they had one son and two daughters. In 1919 he received the C.B.E.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 9
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163OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 9
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