OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 16

OBITUARY

LIEUT.-COLONEL G. A. M. BUCKLEY I United Press Association—B,v Electric Telegraph—Copy right 1 LONDON, 15th November. The death has occurred of Lieut.Colonel George Alexander Maclean Buckley, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Lieut.-Colonel George Alexander Maclean Buckley was born in the Heathcotc Valley, New Zealand, in 1866, and was the second son of the late George Buckley He was educated at Christ’s College, and at Cheltenham. 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 D.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 lo 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. DR. JAMES SEDER NEW YORK, 15th November. Dr. James Seder, one of the most prominent prohibitionists in the United Status, has died of pneumonia. A message from Huntingdon (West Virginia) stated that, bruised and exhausted, Dr Seder, aged 79, a former missionary in Japan, escaped from abductors who held him captive for 11 days in an abandoned coalmine. Gmcn arrested two men, Arnett Booth and John Travis, who later confessed The third kidnapper. Orville Alkins. was captured without resistance at Canada (Kentucky). LADY MARKS SUVA, I7th November. The death occurred of Lady Marks, wife of Sir Henry Marks.