1st Lt. Fitzhugh Lee Buchanan, USMC

77th Company, 6th MG Battalion.

Promoted from Gunnery Sgt to 2nd Lt on 14 July 1918.
Wounded in action at St Mihiel on 15 September 1918.
Present with battalion at time of Armistice.

In Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers & Marines the following entry is found:

FITZHUGH LEE BUCHANAN, 108174, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Enlisted January 25, 1915.
Born Letcher County, Kentucky, January 15, 1891.
Prior service US Army 3 years.
USS Pennsylvania, April 6, 1917.
58 Company, Norfolk, Virginia, July 16, 1917.
77 Company, Quantico, Virginia, August 21, 1917.
France, December 31, 1917 to July 24, 1919.
Sergeant, May 22, 1917.
Gunnery Sergeant, September 28, 1917.
Aisne; Champagne-Marne; AEF, Dec 31, 1917 to discharge
Discharge, July 13, 1918 to enroll as 2 Lt MCR.
Character excellent.
Award Citation General Order #64; Fourragere.
File #68901.

Birth date given above was "fudged" information given to Army to meet enlistment requirements. True birth date was 4 April 1894, Wise County, Virginia. Buchanan was promoted to 1st Lt sometime before leaving France. After returning stateside, he separated from the Corps and tried his hand at both coal mining and railroading. Neither occupation was desirable in the post-war depression so he re-entered the Corps (his grandson thinks as 1st Lt) in 1921. His serial number upon the reorganization of HQ-MC was O-124. Buchanan served in both the Nicaraguan & Haitian campaigns.

Thanks to Art Wadsworth for much of this information.