Private William Bellas Buckland
PERSONAL INFORMATION
MILITARY INFORMATION
Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Original overseas unit: 1st. University Company. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field July 28, 1915
Wounded June 2, 1916 and April 9, 1917. Struck off strength April 15, 1917. Invalided owing to sickness or wounds, with gun shot wounds to head, left shoulder and right hip.
William B. Buckland spent 2 years in the Corps of Guides Militia prior to his 19 March 1915 enlistment.
William Bellas (was actually Bellows but mispelled?) Buckland original 1915 Service Number was 410984. He was a member of the 38th Battalion when he joined in Montreal but Pte Buckland joined the PPCLI in France after16 July 1915. He was discharged in Montreal in 5 August 1918 and died 18 February 1976
William Bellows Buckland died 18 February 1976 in Laval Quebec and is buried in the Ways Mills Cemetary, in Stanstead, Quebec next to his father Pardon Bennett Buckland (1869-1963) and his mother S.I. Buckland (1867-1942).