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Known locally as Seumas Dhomhnaill Sheorais. Buchanan was born in Flodigarry and lived at Stenscholl, the younger son of Donald and Margaret Buchanan. He was serving in the Far East on board HMS Tenedos, a Royal Navy Destroyer, when she was attacked and sunk by carrier borne Japanese aircraft on 5th April 1942 in Colombo Harbour in Ceylon. Buchanan is one of the 33 members of the crew that were lost.