Capt. Buchanan
Fellow officer (13th Battalion)
Mentioned: 1916 only
Comrades in the field A Captain of the 13th Battalion: a different man from Col. Buchanan of the 3rd Brigade, who was killed that September. He arrived on April 29, 1916 to take over 'Taylor's job,' was 'arrested a couple of times' on May 4, went on leave from May 23, and had died by June 28, 1916: 'Poor old Capt. Buchanan cashed in. His seniority won't bother him now.' The diary distinguishes the two Buchanans by rank throughout. Yet another Buchanan (neither of these two) turns up among Robertson's fellow train passengers on August 4, 1918, and is left unlinked.
Appears in the diary · 4 entries
1916
- 29 April 1916… Got up for parade. - Went up in side-car to see day party. - Decided to dig long drain. - Read & slept all aft. - Buchanan, 13th arrived to take over Taylor’s job. - A great evening for work. - Rode up & came dow …
- 4 May 1916Hot & close. Buchanan arrested a couple of times to-day. – Dickson, 60th Battn came up. Uncanny quiet tonight. …
- 23 May 1916… . Must have been a show somewhere. – Joe went up the line, so I read the Co’y’s love-letters, & wrote some myself. Buchanan gone on leave.
- 28 June 1916… ked on 13th Front last night, but the Jacks were up on the parapet with bombs & only two Boches got in. – Poor old Capt. Buchanan cashed in. – His seniority won’t bother him now.