Commander Archibald Walter Buckle DSO 3 Bars VD

Branch: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Rank: Commander

Unit: Anson Battalion, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division

Awards: Mentioned in Dispatches (5 times), DSO (3 bar)

Notes: Buckle returned to teach in Brockley after the war, and became headmaster of the London County Council school on Rotherhithe New Road. He suffered three war wounds, which were said to have contributed towards his death aged 38, after a scratch to his arm became infected. He was survived by his wife and their three children. Buckle's medals—the DSO and three Bars, the trio of the 1914 Star (awarded for service when he was a petty officer), the British War Medal, the Victory Medal (known as "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"), and his RNVR Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, are held by the Imperial War Museum, along with a portrait by Ambrose McEvoy