---

 

In memoriam

Corporal Edmond Buchanan

 

 

 

Edmond Buchanan was born on 27 August 1890 at Rathdonnell, County Donegal, son of farmer David Buchanan and his wife Catherine (nee Wilkin), one of at least thirteen children.

He enlisted in the North Irish Horse at Letterkenny in March 1912 (No.686).

He embarked for France with A Squadron of the North Irish Horse on 17 August 1914, seeing action in the retreat from Mons and the Advance to the Aisne.

In October 1914 he was taken seriously ill and evacuated to the Epsom and Ewell Hospital (Grandstand) in England. He died there on 23 October 1914.

Corporal Buchanan was buried at Epsom Cemetery, Surrey, England, grave D.220A, together with two men of the Manchester Regiment who also died at the Epsom and Ewell Hospital that month. The gravestone inscription reads:

PRIVATE ANDREWARTHA.
PRIVATE THOMAS SIMMS.
MANCHESTER REGT.

CORPL. EDMUND BUCHANAN.
ROYAL IRISH HORSE.

 

Gravestone image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org. Newspaper image from the Belfast Evening Telegraph kindly provided by Nigel Henderson, Researcher at History Hub Ulster (www.greatwarbelfastclippings.com). See also http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/GrandstandWarHospital.html