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Son of Alexander McLean.
Digital gallery of Private Alex McLean
Digital gallery of
Private Alex McLean
This is a photograph of my grand uncle Alex or Alexander McLean. He was with the 7th Battalion. He was involved in the Scarpe operations in WW1 in France, near Nord Pas de Calais. Here they were subjected to heavy machine gun fire and was killed in combat. At the time they were taking MONT DURY on September 2,1918. He was buried there at DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY.
Digital gallery of
Private Alex McLean
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Alex McLean
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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This is a photograph of my grand uncle Alex or Alexander McLean. He was with the 7th Battalion. He was involved in the Scarpe operations in WW1 in France, near Nord Pas de Calais. Here they were subjected to heavy machine gun fire and was killed in combat. At the time they were taking MONT DURY on September 2,1918. He was buried there at DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY.
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 461 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. 200 metres from the D939 the cemetery is signposted to the left. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long.
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