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Angus Buchanan VC, MC dedicating the School's War Memorial. Taken on the 2nd October 1921. Note WW1 style OTC uniforms in the background.
Angus Buchanan, VC MC (11 August 1894 – 1 March 1944). Buchanan was the son of a doctor from Coleford, Gloucestershire and was educated at Monmouth School, where he was head boy. In 1913 he went to Jesus College, Oxford to study Classics.
Buchanan was 21 years old, and a temporary captain in the 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers at Falauyah, Mesopotamia (Iraq) when he received the VC for recovering two wounded colleagues under heavy fire. Buchanan was shot in the head in 1917 by a sniper and blinded.
After the war, Buchanan returned to Jesus College and read law, rowing for the college in 1919 despite his blindness. After graduating in 1921, he worked in a solicitor's office in Oxford before returning to Coleford to work until his death in 1944.
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Der VC Wiesbaden ist nicht weiderzuerkennen. Im Spiel gegen den Tabellenzweiten SSC Palmberg Schwerin kam zu keinem Zeitpunkt Zweifel auf, wer als Sieger vom Platz geht. Wiesbaden gewinnt gegen den amtierenden Deutschen Meister mit 3:1.
(Photos by Karl Weisel)
V Corps' Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion put spouses to the test during Spouses' Combat Day Oct. 25.
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