Donald Cecil BUCHANAN

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Service Number:	NX84209
Enlisted:	16 January 1942, Paddington, New South Wales Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Valla, New South Wales, Australia., 6 April 1906
Home Town:	Valla, Nambucca Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 21 June 1943, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot L. Row D. Grave 1. Personal Inscription ~ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nambucca Heads War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX84209
16 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Paddington, New South Wales Australia
16 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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.