Charles Forbes Buchan

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Forbes Buchan CBE OStJ (1869–1954) was Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office during World War I and was, for many years, Honorary Treasurer of the Navy League and the Training Ship Stork at Hammersmith. He was invested CBE in 1919 for his service during World War I and in 1939 was made an Officer of St. John in recognition of his work for the Navy League.

Life Buchan was born in 1869, the son of Charles Forbes Buchan M.D., a military surgeon. He was also Honorary Treasurer and Secretary of the Training Ship Stork at Hammersmith and in 1926 organised a fundraising Ball in aid of the ship at the Hyde Park Hotel in London. In 1939 he was invested as an Officer of St. John for his work with the Navy League.

Buchan was a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. In 1898 he married Margaret Hume, the daughter of Captain Walter Hume of North Devon, who predeceased him. Buchan died on 30 April 1954.