MACLEAN, John
Service Number: | 6119 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, Scotland., date not yet discovered |
Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, Bullecourt, France, May 1917, age not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6119, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
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22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6119, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
1st Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Died Between 05/05/1917 and 08/05/1917
He was 38 and the son of Donald and Jessie MacLean.
Siblings
Annie MacLean 1870–1956
Donald MacLean 1872–1936
Alexander MacLean 1874–1913
Thomas MacLean 1882–1967
He is one of two Australian soldiers of the Great War commemorated on the Glen Urquhart War Memorial at Drummadrochit, Inverness-shire, Scotland. The other is Private Duncan MacDonald, also born at Glen Urquhart.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His body was lost or destroyed so his official Point of Commemoration is the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France