Lachlan McKinnon MacLean

Name   Lachlan McKinnon MacLean also McLean

Number    Private 955

Battalion      37^th Battalion   5^th  

Place of Birth   Urana  NSW

Next of Kin   His sister Miss McLean of 179 Riversdale Rd Auburn

Date and place of enlistment   Leongatha 17/2/1916

Physical details on enlistment.  Age 34 years 11 months, height 5’11 ½”, brown eyes and dark hair

Religion Roman Catholic

Occupation   farmer

Date and place of death

He died of wounds on 22/9/1917 in Rouen

Location of grave or memorial

St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France

Relationship to Woorayl Shire

He enlisted in Leongatha

Military History

• He is not on the Leongatha Memorial Hall Black Marble Honour Roll.
• His place of Association was given as Auburn
• 3/6/16 embarked Melbourne on the HMAT Persic
• 25/7/16 He disembarked Plymouth
• 15/9/16 He went to France
• 17/9/16 He was in Etaples
• 29/9/16 He was sick in hospital with laryngitis which developed into pneumonia
• 13/110/16 He went to England via Calais and went to Kitchener Hospital Brighton
• 30/11/16 He was transferred to the 3^rd Auxiliary Hospital
• 24/2/17 He returned to France via Folkestone
• 2/3/17 He marches to his unit
• 21/9/17 He was wounded in action in Belgium. He was taken to a casualty clearing station and on to Rouen. He had a gun shot wound to the thigh.
• 22/9/17 He died of wounds
• His effects were: – disc, pipe, rosary, badges, shoulder titles 2, prayer book, photos, letters, notebooks, hymnbook and military book.
• He left his estate to his sister Gwendoline McLean of Surrey Hills.
• 28/9/17 There is a letter from the priest of Our Lady of Victories Camberwell stating that Gwendoline McLean had died 3 or 4 months previous. He had located a brother of the deceased soldier who works at the Bank of New South Wales Collins St.
• H R MacLean wrote and asked if his medals could be sent to him in Toora