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BORN 11 August 1894
DIED 1 March 1944 AGE 49
VC Won 5 April 1916 AGE 21
Place VC Won Falauiyah Lines, Mesopotamia, now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Angus Buchanan No.
VC Issue No. 692 Awards VC MC
Regiment South Wales Borderers, 4th Battalion, B Company
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Lieutenant (Temporary Captain)
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Old Bank House, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death Gloucester Royal Infirmary, Gloucestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Coleford Cemetery Churchyard, Gloucestershire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 6 March 1944
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 8 November 1917 by King George V at Durdham Downs, Bristol, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Coleford Cemetery Churchyard, Gloucestershire, England
P Plaque in St John the Evangelist, Parish Church of Coleford, Gloucestershire
P Memorial Park with name on gates, and stone memorial, Coleford, Gloucestershire
P Buchanan Close, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
Memorial Plaque, Monmouth School, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
House named after him, Monmouth School, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
By The Way…
Being blinded during the war, he learnt to read braille and became a solicitor, working on his own in a practice in Coleford, Gloucestershire
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
