Ian Urquhart MCLENNAN

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MCLENNAN, Ian Urquhart

Service Numbers:	W11747, WX17098
Enlisted:	9 September 1940
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/5th Cavalry Commando Squadron
Born:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 4 May 1908
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 10 November 1980, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

9 Sep 1940:	Enlisted W11747
13 Mar 1941:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, 44 Infantry Battalion AMF
25 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, WX17098
20 Aug 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, WX17098, 2nd/5th Independent Company / Commando Squadron , embarked Sydney for Port Moresby per SS Montoro
11 Mar 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, WX17098, 2nd/5th Cavalry Commando Squadron, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville per Duntroon
13 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, WX17098, 2nd/5th Cavalry Commando Squadron

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lieutenant Ian Urquhart McLennan (Service No:WX17098) served with the Militia in 1937 (44th Infantry Battalion) and enlisted in the ACMF on 4 September 1940 as a Sergeant (Service No:W11747) attached to 44th Infantry Battalion. Promoted to Lieutenant on 13 March 1941, he was seconded to Western Command Training School Guildford on 15 September 1941. Lieutenant McLennan then served with the AIF - No 7 Independent Coy, 2nd/5th Independent Coy and 2nd/5th Commando Squadron in New Guinea (20 August 1942 - 11 May 1943). Lieutenant McLennan was attached to 2nd/5th Commando Squadron when his appointment was terminated on 13 October 1945.

Born in 1908 in Fremantle WA, Ian was the eldest of five children of John McLennan (b1866 in Mondrook, NSW) and Florence Edna Meyer (b1886 in Eudunda, South Australia). John (a Clerk) and Florence married in 1907 in Perth WA and settled in Fremantle where they raised their family and John was a Clerk for D & J Fowler Ltd until his death in 1919.

Ian worked as a Clerk and Salesman and in 1937 served with the Militia before enlisting in the ACMF and then AIF. In 1938 in Fremantle WA, Ian married Grace Isobel Viles (b1909 in Fremantle, WA). Ian and Grace settled in Perth, and following Grace's death in 1948, Ian remarried to Patricia (Margeurite) Margaret Ryan (b1909 in Kalgoorlie, WA) - Patricia was working as a Shop Assistant in Perth. Ian and Patricia settled in Perth where Ian worked as a Clerk. Ian died in 1980 and Patricia in 1991.

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