Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Nwa nwoke nke onye ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị bụ Edward Pery Buckley, a mụrụ ya n'ọnwa Ọktoba 1829 n'ụlọ ezinaụlọ New Hall na Bodenham, Wiltshire. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Eton College. Buckley gbara bọọlụ cricket nke mbụ maka Marylebone Cricket Club ugboro abụọ, na-egwuri egwu megide Mahadum Cambridge n'oge abụọ ahụ na Fenner na Onyenwe anyị na 1851 na 1852, n'agbanyeghị na ọ nweghị ihe ịga nke ọma dịka ọ gbara naanị 9 na egwuregwu abụọ ya. Ya na nwanne ya nwoke, Alfred, gbara egwuregwu abụọ ahụ. Buckley jere ozi na ndị agha Britain n'oge Agha Crimea, zụta ọkwa nke onye isi na onye isi na Royal Scots Fusiliers na Ọktọba 1853. E merụrụ ya ahụ nke ukwuu na
Agha nke Alma na Septemba 1854, mana emesịrị laghachi na ndị agha ya. E gburu Buckley n'agha na Septemba na-esote mgbe ọ na-ezipụ ndị nche n'ọgba na Siege nke Sevastopol.