Robert James Buchanan

Died

20 March 1989

Age

Rank

Superintendent

Force

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Shot dead alongside a colleague, when they were ambushed by terrorists as they drove home from a meeting in Dundalk.

Roll of Honour Citation

Shot dead alongside a colleague, when they were ambushed by terrorists as they drove home from a meeting in Dundalk.

Circumstances

Having travelled to Dundalk with a colleague to discuss a possible joint RUC/Garda operation they they were on their way home on the Edenappa Road near Jonesborough, Co. Armagh. Just a few hundred yards over the border they were ambushed and fatally shot.

Superintendent Buchanan was shot dead alongside his colleague, Chief Superintendent Henry Alexander Breen, as they drove home from a meeting in Dundalk, to discuss a possible joint RUC/Garda operation, when they were ambushed by terrorists, on the Edenappa Road near Jonesborough, County Armagh, just a few hundred yards over the border.