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BUCHANAN, Frank Cuthbert

Service Number:	1769
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	3rd Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Mendelsham, Suffolk, England, 1893
Home Town:	North Perth, Vincent, Western Australia
Schooling:	Framlingham College, Suffolk, England
Occupation:	Motor Mechanic
Died:	Killed in Action, Dardenelles, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 July 1915
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 11, Row K, Grave 28 Rev. A. Talbot officiated Headstone inscription reads: Be thou faithful unto death & I will give Thee a Crown of Life, Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Francis T. and Ada Harriett Buchanan of 27 Leake Street, North Perth, WA

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in the Officer Training Corps, Framlingham, England. At the age of 18 he served as a volunteer in the 37th Battery, WA Field Artillery, with the rank of Sergeant for about 2 years prior to enlisting.