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E. (Edmond) Buckle

1808–1846

A Bengal Artillery officer turned military historian, he left behind a detailed record of one of the East India Company's most important fighting forces. His best-known book was published after his death, shaped by years of research and service.

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Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization

Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization

by E. (Edmond) Buckle

About the author

E. (Edmond) Buckle, who lived from 1808 to 1846, is known chiefly for Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery. Project Gutenberg and library catalog records identify him as Edmond Buckle and note that the book was issued as the work of the late Captain E. Buckle.

The book presents a long, carefully assembled history of the Bengal Artillery, tracing the corps from its formation through major campaigns and its internal organization. In the original 1852 edition, Buckle is described as Assistant Adjutant-General of the Bengal Artillery, and editor J. W. Kaye explains that Buckle had spent years collecting records and shaping them into a substantial work of military history.

Kaye also notes that Buckle had been forced home by ill health and did not live to see the manuscript through publication. That gives the work an added sense of dedication: it is not just a regimental history, but the finished result of a soldier-scholar's long effort to preserve the story of his corps.