In 1909 Buckler and Paget were in England, with George Willoughby's Farcical Comedy Company, touring Weedon Grossmith's The Night of the Party, which production was brought out to Australia by Rupert Clarke and Clyde Meynell, opening at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne on 26 February 1910.

[5] Buckler, who was a reserve officer with the Royal Irish Rifles,[6] volunteered for service with the outbreak of war, and received a commission with his old regiment[7] leaving Melbourne by the R.M.S.

A rumor that he had a leg amputated below the knee[8] and another, that he was killed in action,[9] were without foundation but he was wounded and his wife and son left for Egypt, where he had been hospitalized, in November 1915.

[13] Little has been found on Paget's time in America, apart from an incident in 1926, when Buckler was in New York, playing in The Ladder, and his wife was suffering from "a bad attack of blood poisoning".

[15] In 1936 he visited his actor son John Buckler in Hollywood and the same week was signed for the part of Gainsford in Lost Horizon.