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BUCHANAN, Donald Cecil
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX84209 |
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Enlisted: | 16 January 1942, Paddington, New South Wales Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Valla, New South Wales, 6 April 1906 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, New Guinea, 21 June 1943, aged 37 years |
Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery Plot L, Row D, Grave 1 Roll of Honour NamBucca Heads, Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nambucca Heads War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX84209 | |
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16 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Paddington, New South Wales Australia | |
16 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX84209, 2nd/6th Infantry Battalion |
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2/6 Battalion
Rank - Private
Son of John and Winnifred Grace Buchanan; husband of Mary Davidson Buchanan, of Bondi, New South Wales.