Arthur Lewis BUCHANAN

BUCHANAN, Arthur Lewis

Service Numbers: QX11457, QX11457
Enlisted: 5 August 1940
Last Rank: Lance Sergeant
Last Unit: 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Mossman, Queensland, Australia, 19 December 1913
Home Town: Townsville, Townsville, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Southport, Queensland, Australia, 11 September 1991, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Southport St Peter's Church of England Columbarium
Memorials: City of Townsville WW2 HR
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World War 2 Service

5 Aug 1940: Involvement QX11457
5 Aug 1940: Enlisted
5 Aug 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
27 Dec 1940: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, to Middle East
25 Jul 1942: Wounded Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, GSW
27 Feb 1943: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Middle East for Sydney
11 Aug 1943: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Cairns to Milne Bay per HT Allen
17 Feb 1944: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Finschafen to Brisbane
29 Sep 1944: Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
6 Jun 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Townsville to Morotai per General McRae
31 Jul 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Morotai for Borneo
16 Oct 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, ex Labuan to Brisbane per River Clarence
24 Oct 1945: Discharged
24 Oct 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, QX11457, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Arthur was the third of four children of Ernest Arthur Buchanan (b1881 in Port Douglas, QLD) and Mary Lewis (b1883 in Ravenswood, QLD). Ernest (a Storeman in Mossman QLD) and Mary married in 1909 in Mossman and lived there until the early 1920s when they moved to Townsville where Ernest worked as a Clerk. Ernest and Mary moved to Brisbane in the late 1930s.

In March 1940 Arthur was working as a Clerk in Townsville, QLD when he married Eleanor (Nellie) Alice Armstrong (b1913 in Townsville, QLD) - Nellie was working as a Clerk. Arthur enlisted in the Australian Army in August 1940 and was a Lance Sergeant (Service No:QX11457) attached to 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion when he was Discharged in October 1945.

Arthur and Nellie moved to Bowen, QLD where Arthur was a Carrier and Forwarding Agent before purchasing a garage in Wacol, Brisbane in 1954. In 1958 Arthur and Nellie moved to Wilston in Brisbane, where Arthur worked as a Salesman before relocating to Palm Beach on the Gold Coast in 1959. Arthur worked as a Property Dealer and Company Director on the Gold Coast, where he died in 1991 and Nellie in 1997.

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