Captain John James Buckle was born on 28 October 1879 in Ketton Rutland, England, the son of John Buckle and Mary Herald.

He married Maud McKnight and had two children: M. Eileen Maud Buckle and J. Herald Buckle.

He became The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada’s Director of Music in 1928.

Buckle died in 1956 and is buried in Toronto’s Park Lawn Cemetery.

Service Record

• 1895 – Enlisted with Royal Sussex Regiment
• Later with the Queen’s Royal Regiment
• 1895 – India
• 1897-98 – Tirah Expeditionary Force
• Punjab Frontier
• Malta
• 1905-07 – Occupation of Crete
• 1914 – Graduate of Kneller Hall, London – School of Music
• Great War as Regimental Sergeant Major in the field
• 1920-23 – Irish Rebellion
• 1927 – Retired from the British Army
• 1928 Jan – Immigrated to Canada to become Bandmaster of QOR [His passage paid for by the QOR]
• 1945 21 Nov – Transferred from QOR to Corps of Reserve Officers with the rank of Captain.

Mostly taken from info in FO18.F05 H.G. Barnum Collection – Report on Officers dated 21 July 1944.