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Private Harold Bruce McLagan

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Military service

Service number: 781871
Age: 33
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division: 9th Coy.
Birth: September 7, 1884 Carluke, Ontario
Enlistment: January 13, 1916 Saskatchewan
Death: November 4, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XXX. J. 18.
Additional information

Son of James and Isabella (née Calder) McLagan, of Carluke, Ontario. Pte McLagan was a farmer and teamster before he enlisted. He was the captain of the Carluke Baseball team in 1905. In Autumn 2006, the City of Hamilton will install a small plaque above the names that are engraved on the Ancaster Cenotaph. It will bear the name of Bruce McLagan who was missed from the Cenotaph when it was created.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 285 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

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