Peter Buchanan

Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Buchanan KBE FNI MRIN (14 May 1925 – 23 November 2011) was a Royal Indian Navy and Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. Early life Born on the Isle of Wight, he was the second son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Henry Theodore Buchanan and Gwendolen May Isobel (née Hunt). He was educated at Malvern College. His brother Leading Aircraftman James Gilliam Buchanan, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died aged 19 on active service in Arizona, United States in 1943. Naval career Buchanan joined the Royal Indian Navy in 1943. During the Second World War he served as a midshipman on HMS Anson and HMS King George V. On the latter ship he fought the Japanese in the Pacific and was in the region when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.