Rank VC Won Deputy Assistant Commissary of Ordinance
Rank End Of Career Deputy Assistant Commissary of Ordinance
Place Of Birth Cocker Hill, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England
Place Of Death At his home, 213 East India Dock Road, Poplar, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Southern Grove, Bow, London, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked grave Plot/Grave no. Common Ground (wooded area to right of Bellamy's Meadow)
Gazetted 18 June 1858
VC Presented 02 August 1858 by Queen Victoria, Southsea Common, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Memorials
P Plaque on the 'Traveller's Call' Public House, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester
P Named on plaque outside The Museum of the Manchesters, Ashton Town Hall, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
Name on tablet over the gateway at Delhi Magazine memorial, Delhi, India
P Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
By The Way…
John Buckley lost two wives and eight children to disease and murder before and during the mutiny. At the end of the mutiny he oversaw the execution of one hundred and fifty mutineers by being blown from the cannon
VC Held By
Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, England
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At the start of the Mutiny the mutineers made straight for the Delhi Magazine. Buckley with 112 Forrest and 113 Rayner, defended the magazine against overwhelming odds. With no ammunition to hand and no relief on the horizon, they decided to blow the magazine
