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James Macglashen MacLean

In memory of:

Private James Macglashen MacLean

June 21, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

222634

Age:

25

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division:

85th Bn.

Citation(s):

British War Medal and Victory Medal

Additional Information


Born:

April 4, 1892
Big Island, Nova Scotia

Enlistment:

October 19, 1915
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Son of Lauchlin and Elizabeth MacLean, of Big Island, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He was a carpenter and single. He was the brother of Pte Hector Norman MacLean, deceased 12 January 1918 and Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean, deceased 16 September 1916.

Commemorated on Page 286 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. C. 32.

Location:

Barlin is a village about 11 kilometres south-west of Bethune on the D188, between the Bethune-Arras and Bethune-St. Pol roads, about 6.5 kilometres south-east of Bruay. The BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and EXTENSION lie to the north of the village on the D171 road to Houchin.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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