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Archibald Ure Buchanan

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Archibald Ure Buchanan's Gravemarker (Photo courtesy of findagrave.com)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
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  • Service no: N/A
  • Rank: Second Lieutenant
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  • Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
  • Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 21
  • Date of Death: 27.09.1915
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: I.A.25.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03.12.1893
  • Place of Birth: Seafield Rd, Dundee
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  • Mother:

    Elizabeth Dunlop Gartshore

  • Father:

    Robert Buchanan

  • Siblings:

    Rebecca Maynard Buchanan (1896-1970)

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More about Archibald Ure Buchanan

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

Archibald Ure Buchanan was born at 58 Seafield Road in Dundee on 3rd December 1893, the eldest child of parents Robert Buchanan (a commercial traveller) and Elizabeth Dunlop Buchanan (nee Gartshore), who had married earlier that year in Glasgow. He was given the middle name ‘Ure’ which was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother.

His sister, Rebecca Maynard Fraser Buchanan, was born three years later on 16th December 1896, by which time the family was living about 80 miles away from Dundee at Spring Villa, Waterside, Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. This address is listed in De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour as being the home of Alexander Gartshore, Elizabeth’s father.

By 1901, the family had moved some 300 miles away, to Birmingham, where they were living at 20 Oakfield Road, Balsall Heath. Robert was recorded as a commercial traveller for a Scottish iron foundry. According to De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, Archibald was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham. By 1911, the family was living at Clarinnis, 5 Kineton Green Road, Olton, and 17-year-old Archibald was articled to a chartered accountant.

Archibald joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in June 1914, and volunteered for active service after the outbreak of war. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 11th (service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, on 3rd April 1915 and went to the front, being there attached to the 1st Battalion. He died on 27th September 1915, of wounds received in action at Hooge on the 25th. He is commemorated at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (the second largest Commonwealth war cemetery in Belgium) and on war memorials in Olton at St Margaret’s Church and Olton United Reformed Church.

Information kindly supplied by A. J. Bulloch and Tracey Williams

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