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Private JOHN BUCHANAN

Service Number: 2939667
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

XXII. G. 18.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Donald Buchanan, and of Catherine Buchanan, of Laxdale, Isle of Lewis.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON , DEAR SON IN A GRAVE I SHALL NEVER SEE WHILE LIFE AND MEMORY LAST I WILL REMEMBER THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 7368
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