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Flight Lieutenant DAVID ADYE BUCHAN

Service Number: 43092
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

59 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1941

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHERBOURG OLD COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 6. Row B. Joint grave 6-7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Brigadier David Adye Buchan, D.S.O., Royal Artillery, and of Phyllis Mary, Buchan (nee Peters); husband of Josephine Buchan, of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription THE BRAVEST IS HE WHO REALISES WHAT LIES BEFORE HIM AND GOES OUT TO MEET IT
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