Peebles, Scottish Borders
Lt Alastair Buchan
1894 - 1917
and War Graves
Visits
JB’s brother Alastair was killed in action
near Arras on Monday, 9th April 1917.
Mrs Helen Buchan made the first of two visits
to her Son’s grave in 1919.
She made a further visit in 1920 by which time
permanent gravestones had been erected.
The photographs in the following pages
were taken during these visits.
Alastair on the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle
Alastair with his niece Alice and
nephew William
Lt Alastair Buchan’s grave in the British Military Cemetery at
Duisans, near Arras
Anna in the British Military Cemetery, Duisans
Mrs Helen Buchan and Anna at Alastair’s grave
Mrs Helen Buchan in
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Possibly Bouzincourt Cemetery
Possibly Bouzincourt Cemetery
Grave of 2nd Lt H R Taggart
H R T
Duisans Cemetery with the cross completed
Grave of Pte W Gray
A French War memorial in the
village of Rumaucourt near Arras
Arras Cemetery
Arras Road, Roclincourt War Cemetery
Alastair’s Grave, Duisans
Mrs Helen Buchan and Anna
at the Memorial Cross, Duisans
A French War Memorial in Rumaucourt
The white cliffs
Dover and the Castle
Dover Harbour
Dover
En route to Arras
En route to Arras
Identifying the grave sites
French roadside services
Calais’s magnificent Hotel de Ville tower at the end of a tenement row which no
longer exists.
Inland from Calais
Destruction around Ypres
Ypres - a reminder that this is Holy Ground
and stones should not be removed
Anna
Ypres ruins
Ypres
Crossing the English Channel
Ruins around Ypres
Ypres devastation
Anna aboard the Channel ferry
The Royal Canadian Artillery Memorial on Vimy Ridge which is now
within the Village of Thelus
Cross to the German Defenders
on Butte de Warlencourt
View from the Butte de Warlencourt
War Graves in Bouzincourt Cemetery
Possibly the war cemetery at Hamel
Military graveyard at Bouzincourt which adjoins
the civil cemetery where the large family tomb
can still be seen
Mrs Helen Buchan at her Son Alastair’s grave
The ruins of the St John the Baptist Church, Arras
The ruins of the St John the Baptist Church,
Arras
Cross to the South African Brigade
at Warlencourt
British War Cemetery, Hamel
The road to Bapaume taken from the Butte de Warlencourt
View from Butte de Warlencourt
Homeward bound
La Madeleine, Paris
The photographs which follow were taken during Mrs Buchan’s second visit
to northern France in April, 1920.
The ladies taking full advantage of the sea air
Disembarking
Disembarking
Unloading the luggage
Unloading the luggage
Gare Maritime, Calais
Gare Maritime, Calais
Mrs Helen Buchan at Alastair’s graveside, Duisans
Alastair’s gravestone
Duisans Military Cemetery
Duisans Military Cemetery
Duisans Military Cemetery
