254532 Sgt. Walter Buchanan MM.British Army 150th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Dumbarton, Scotland My father, Walter Buchanan, enlisted and went to France in 1916 when he was twenty-two years old. He was one of the fortunate few who returned alive and not (physically) injured. He never spoke to me about his war time experience and it was not until several years after his death in 1970 that I learned he had been awarded the Military Medal for bravery.
I find it hard to imagine how he could have endured more than two years of waking up each morning and being thankful to still be alive and how he must have felt when he returned home in 1918.
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