BUCHANAN, Thomas Malloch
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
14416348
Born:
Saturday, March 15, 1924
Died :
Thursday, June 10, 1948
Died in service
Age:
24
Cemetery/Memorial:
Private Thomas Buchanan, 4 troop, was wounded on the 31st January 1945 during the battle for Hill 170 at Kangaw, Burma.
Service
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Dec.1941 - Nov. 1942 Argyll Home Guard aged 17.
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Jan. 1943 enlisted 8th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
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31 May 1943 commenced commando training at Achnacarry.
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28 July 1943 attached No.1 Commando.
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31 Jan. 1945 wounded Hill 170, Burma.
His service record then has a gap of 17 months until he turns up in Durban, South Africa, on way to a tuberculosis sanitarium at British Military Hospital 130 located at Baragwanath near Johannesburg. Private Buchanan, a native of Inverary, was repatriated to the UK and died in service at Hairmyers Military Hospital, Lanarkshire on 10 June 1948.
Sources
AFM ROH database.
Service Record.
No.1 Cdo Hill 170 Casualty List [view...]
Alex Kean (nephew).
Image: CVA Gallery - No. 1 Commando panorama.
Notes
His date of death is outside of the CWGC parameters for inclusion in their database 3 September 1939 to 31 December 1947.
Primary Roll of Honour:
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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