E. Buckle

The surviving record for this author is quite sparse, but the title page of Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery identifies him as Captain E. Buckle, an assistant adjutant-general in the Bengal Artillery.

In the editor's advertisement to the 1852 edition, J. W. Kaye explains that Buckle had spent years gathering records and shaping them into a full history of his corps. He seems to have worked on the book during brief intervals away from official duties, treating it as a serious labor of love rather than a casual side project.

That same notice says Buckle's health declined while he was still in India, and that he left for Britain after suffering from a severe illness; he died in 1846 before the work could appear in print. The memoir was therefore published posthumously, preserving both his research and his deep attachment to the regiment whose story he set out to tell.