Robert Archibald BUCHANAN
Age at Death43
Date Of Death1 May 1918
Place Of BirthSmeaton, Victoria
OccupationMiner
Last Will and Testament
Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997 for Robert Archibald Buchanan
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Great Boulder GM, Western Australia
Length Of Time Working In Mining Industry
14
Diagnosis or cause of accident
He died on 1 May 1918 in Yarra Junction, Victoria, at the age of 43.
Place Of Treatment (Miners Lung Only)
Wooroloo Sanatorium, Western Australia
Place Of Burial
Lilydale Cemetery, Victoria
Submitted by
David McMillan
Mines Workers Relief Fund Number (If Known)
215
MSW
Single
Cause of Death
Mine Lung
Father
John Buchanan
Mother
Jane Stark
Other Information
Left Wooroloo Sanatorium still infectious
There is a Robert Archibald Buchanan, April 17, 1875 – May 1, 1918, in the Lilydale Cemetery, Victoria. Wooroloo opened in 1915. Last Will and Testament (below) shows that he lived in Boulder, Western Australia, and Launching Place, Victoria.
BUCHANAN.—On the 1st May, at "Cartchonzie,"Launching Place, Robert Archibald, son of the late John and Jane Buchanan, and dearly beloved brother of John, James S., Mrs. Spring (of Romsey), Christina M., Thomas S., David A., William S., Alexander S., and the late George A.B., late of A.I.F., aged 43 years.
