Robert James Buchanan

Died

:

20 March 1989

Age

:

55

Rank

:

Superintendent

Force

:

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Cause

:

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

:

On Duty

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,