MCLAREN, John Brown
| Service Number: | 198 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 24 January 1883 |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer and miner |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 198, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Margaret Plant
John Brown McLaren served in both the Boer War and a short stint in WW1 till he was medically discharged with a dicky heart.
Dad's Auntie May (his mother's sister) who practically raised the Craker boys married James Young McLaren from Warwick. James had a couple of brothers and sisters - John Brown McLaren, Janet Burns McLaren, Alexander Falkender McLaren and Elizabeth Simpson McLaren.
Yes they're Scottish their father Robert McLaren was born in 1851 • Slamannan, Falkirk, Scotland and mother Martha Brown was born in 1853 • Lanarkshire, Scotland. they arrived in Brisbane on 28 Aug 1878 on the ship Rodell Bay. Port of Departure Greenock, Scotland. Robert took his family to Warwick, Qld.
Both Alexander and James served in WW1. Both came home. James had injuries which never healed and died in 1926. Alexander died in 1953.
It appears John never married. He tried labouring after he was discharged from the Army in 1917, Went to Ingham with the Main Roads Board as an Engineer and stayed at camp at Lilypond, Ingham ( which is between Gairloch and Macknade). He then went mining at Mount Morgan, Rockhampton at Mt Victoria, Pensioners Camp at Tarragindi and Packet Creek at Moonmera all in the same area.
I haven't found when or where he died as he seems to have fallen off the earth after 1949.
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