Age:
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE etc
Regiment: Mercantile Marine.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: British Army.
Rank: Second Mate.
Casualty of the Great War.
Second Mate J. Thomas Buchanan is one of six casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchantman built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway.
The master and 19 crew perished.
*
Burial: 25th February 1918.
Cert: 36.
*
MEDALS
Mercantile Marine War Medal.
Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE etc
Regiment: Mercantile Marine.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: British Army.
Rank: Second Mate.
Casualty of the Great War.
Second Mate J. Thomas Buchanan is one of six casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchantman built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway.
The master and 19 crew perished.
*
Burial: 25th February 1918.
Cert: 36.
*
MEDALS
Mercantile Marine War Medal.
Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).
Age:
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE etc
Regiment: Mercantile Marine.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: British Army.
Rank: Second Mate.
Casualty of the Great War.
Second Mate J. Thomas Buchanan is one of six casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchantman built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway.
The master and 19 crew perished.
*
Burial: 25th February 1918.
Cert: 36.
*
MEDALS
Mercantile Marine War Medal.
Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).
MILITARY/RAF/NAVY/MERCANTILE etc
Regiment: Mercantile Marine.
Unit/Ship: S.S Rio Verde (London) Battalion.
Service No: British Army.
Rank: Second Mate.
Casualty of the Great War.
Second Mate J. Thomas Buchanan is one of six casualties of the sinking of this ship buried in this churchyard.
His ship was a defensively-armed British Merchantman built in 1901 as the S.S.Austriana but renamed in 1915. She was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-86 when 4 miles West from Crammock Head, Mull of Galloway.
The master and 19 crew perished.
*
Burial: 25th February 1918.
Cert: 36.
*
MEDALS
Mercantile Marine War Medal.
Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI - (Dead Man's Penny).
Inscription
Second Mate
J. T. BUCHANAN
S. S. Rio Verde
21st February 1918
Gravesite Details
Above CWGC Headstone attached to the Wall, is a name sign which reads:
"THOS BICHANAN"
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