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Military service
Age:
18
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Western Head (Nassau, Bahamas) (159979)
Birth:
June 23, 1923
Jordan Branch, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Death:
May 28, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21.
Additional information
Son of John Nathaniel Buchanan and Mary Eula Williams, of Jordan Branch, Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
On May 29, 1942, at 2:17 a.m., the Western Head was sailing unescorted when she was torpedoed by U-107 50 miles (70 km) east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sank in Windward Passage, position 19°57'N/74°18'W.
Digital gallery of Able Seaman Willard John Buchanan
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Photo of WILLARD JOHN BUCHANAN
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman Willard John Buchanan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 103 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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