Padre Durnford and Lieutenant Colonel the Lord Tweedsmuir at award investiture at London's Buckingham Palace, July 1945 (possibly 29 June, 1945) John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir CBE, CD (25 November 1911 – 20 June 1996), was a Scottish peer and the son of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. He has been described as a "brilliant fisherman and naturalist, a gallant soldier and fine writer of English, an explorer, colonial administrator and man of business." Buchan was educated at Eton and in 1930 he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated with a fourth class degree in History. After a period in the Colonial Administrative Service in Uganda he joined the Governor General's Foot Guards in 1939. In 1941 saw active service with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in Sicily for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). John Norman Stuart Buchan (1911 - 1996) ,was the eldest son of John Buchan and Susan Grosvenor. He was a naturalist, a gallant soldier and fine writer of English, an explorer, colonial administrator and man of business. In 1936, Buchan joined his parents in Canada. He worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company, drove a dog team 3,000 miles, and spent the winter of 1938-39 at the trading post at Cape Dorset, N.W.T. With the outbreak of WWII he enlisted in the Governor General's Foot Guards and was with the first Canadian troops to arrive in England in December, 1939. He succeeded to the title of Baron Tweedsmuir upon his father's death, receiving his army company on the same day. He saw action with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in Sicily. He served with the the General Staff in Italy, responsible for liaison between the British and Canadian contingents. Maj. TWEEDSMUIR, Lord CBE,OBE,CD Sept.41- Apr.42 Lt.Col. Attd.from GGFG H/Maj. DURNFORD,R.C.H. DSO c.c.s. 1942 - 25.Sep.45