Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: 2nd Lieutenant D. N. G. Buchanan, Indian Army, attached 37th Dogras, who was killed in action at Sheik Saad in January 1916

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., 37-Dogras); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), nearly extremely fine (3) £300-400

David Neil Griffiths Buchanan was born at Clun, Salop in February 1892 and was educated at Hereford Cathedral School. He was in Assam on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, having found employment as an Electrical Engineer on the Makum Tea Plantation, and as a part time soldier in the Assam Valley Light Horse. Subsequently commissioned, he was attached to the 37th Dogras and fought with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia from November 1915 until his death in action at Sheik Saad on 21 January 1916, aged 24 years. Buchanan was buried in the Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.