1445 Pte Samuel Ernest Buckel of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry is commemorated on a special memorial plaque in Green Hill Cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsular. The cemetery was made after the Armistice when isolated graves were brought in from the battlefields of August 1915 and from small burial grounds in the surrounding area.
Samuel Buckel was a pre-war Territorial, his number dating to 1912/1913 and he arrived overseas quite early on. His medal index card indicates he landed in Egypt on 3rd November 1914. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of George and Eliza Buckel of Clapton, London, whilst Soldiers Died in The Great War confirms that he was born in Hackney and enlisted there.
The War Graves Photographic Project holds a photo of Samuel's memorial.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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