MCLEAN, Hector James Alexander
| Service Number: | 4421 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 March 1916, Place of enlistment - Perth |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Black Watch Shaft, France, 27 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension Plot I, Row C, Grave 21, Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension, Hersin-Coupigny, Lens, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 4421, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Place of enlistment - Perth | |
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| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 4421, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Embarked on HMAT 'A69' Warilda from Fremantle --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Nov 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4421, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4421 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1916-11-27 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Husband of Henrietta (Ettie) E. McLean (nee Heath) and father of Daphne of Perth, Western Australia.
Sson of John and Harriet (nee Devereux) McLean who were married in Hamilton, Victoria on the 29th July 1878. John and Harriet had six children up to the time of John's death on March 6th 1890: Annie Lillian born 1878; Mary Haidlee b. 1880; Margaret Agnes b. 1882, John William b. 1884, all at Branxholme, Vic; Hector James Alexander b. 1886 and Francis George b. 1889, both at Stawell Vic.
On the 24th May 1890, Harriet Mclean married James Goodlet in Stawell, Victoria and the couple had three children in Victoria before moving to Western Australia between 1895 and 1898 where two more children were born: Emily Ettie born 1891; James Thomas b. 1893; Walter William b. 1895, all at Stawell, Vic; Lila May b. 1898 at Bellevue, WA and Daisy for whom few details are known.
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