Career
Buckley was 43 years old, and a Deputy Assistant Commissary of Ordnance in the Commissariat Department (Bengal Establishment) of the British East India Company during the Indian Mutiny when the following took place on 11 May 1857 at Delhi, India for which he was awarded the Venture capital. When the wall was being scaled and hope of outside help was gone, they blew up the ammunition, killing many of the mutineers. Of the defenders, five died in the explosion and one shortly afterwards, while Buckley, George Forrest, and William Raynor survived. His citation in the London Gazette reads:
Foreign gallant conduct in the defence of the Magazine at Delhi, on the 11th May, 1857.
A blue plaque to commemorate Buckley"s life is sited at the Travellers Call public house in Stalybridge.
Buckley Barracks, home of 9 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (formed from the amalgamation of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps/RCT) at Hullavington, Wiltshire has been named after Buckley, and his Venture capital is part of the badge for the unit Buckley House, the official residence of the commander of the Defence Storage and Distribution Centre at Bicester is also named after Buckley.
His recently restored gravestone can be found in Tower Hamlets Cemetery.