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A motion of sympathy with Mr and Mrs 0. A. Spicer in the recent death of Mrs Spicer’s father, the late Mi Hydes; was carried in silence at a meeting of the Hampstead Chrysanthemum Show Committee last evening. Major, D. A. Buchanan, M.8.E., of the first party of officer cadets to join the Indian Army in 1941, has returned to Christchurch. Born in Ashburton, Major Buchanan is a son of Mr and Mrs G. H. Buchanan. Throughout the war he served with the famous sth Royal Gurkha Regiment, duty taking him through India, Burma, Assam, Malaya and Batavia. Major Buchanan was commissioned from an officer cadets’ school of the Indian Army at Belgaum, south of Bombay, and posted to the 3rd Battalion of his regiment at Lahore. After service at Assam for two and a half years and the Chindwin, Major Buchanan’s battalion was sent to help the 17th Division when the Japanese tried to invade India. The British forces were besieged by the Japanese for. three months and it was for his distinguished service during this time that Major Buchanan received the award of M.B.E.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 196, 1 June 1946, Page 4
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