✟ Major O.C. 105 Battery, 22 Brig R.F.A. 2/Lt 12/5/1900, Capt 1910 & Major 30/10/1914. (DC 27/2/1915; mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French). D of W age 32 on 18/5/1915. Grave; Bethune Town Cemetery. Also remembered together with his brother, John Charles Bucknill, at Hedge End Memorial, Hants.
Son of Lt Col John (late R.E.) & Catherine Bucknill, of Thornfield, Bitterne, Hants. He married Mary Ashton Bucknill, of Bryn Cottage, Cricklade, Wilts, the only daughter of the late Col Ashton John Shuttleworth R F A of Hathersage Hall. They were married at Hathersage Parish Church on 24/9/1913, where his original grave cross is displayed. See article and photo in WHW2W p 28.