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Personal data

• Name BUCHANAN
• Initials JB
• First name JOHN BERTRAM
• Place of birth Parkes
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence Coff's Harbour, New South Wales
• Family Son of Charles Sydney Buchanan and Ann McCaughan; brother of Violet Jane, Sydney Charles, Leslie, Minnie Thelma, Elwin Archibald, Ivo Kingsley, Lindsay Robert, Phyllis Edna
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 24 January 1916, Coff's Harbour
• Service number 2276
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 36th Bn. Australian Infantry D Coy
• Division - Brigade 9th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Sydney 17 October 1916; to France 25 April 1917

Death

• Wounded 12 October 1917, Passendale
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds left buttock, n°3 Canadian CCS at 6.5 pm
• Date of death 12 October 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - A - 16

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