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E. (Edmond) Buckle

1808–1846

A Bengal Artillery officer remembered for a detailed military history that was published after his death, he left behind a work valued for its firsthand knowledge of the East India Company’s artillery service in India.

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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

Little seems to be widely recorded online about this author beyond his book and his military role, so the safest picture is a modest one. He is identified in library and ebook records as E. Buckle or Edmond Buckle (1808–1846), and as Captain E. Buckle of the Bengal Artillery.

His best-known work is 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. The book was published after his death and edited by J. W. Kaye, which suggests it was regarded as an important record of the corps by people close to the subject.

Because reliable biographical details are sparse in the sources I could confirm, it is best to remember him through the book itself: a substantial historical account shaped by an insider’s understanding of the Bengal Artillery and its place in British India.