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Alexander McLaren

In memory of:

Private Alexander McLaren

August 7, 1917

Military Service


Service Number:

213292

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Division:

19th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

September 12, 1897
Dundee, Scotland

Enlistment:

December 14, 1915
Windsor, Ontario

Son of Alexander and Maggie Wilson McLaren, of Windsor, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 285 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

II. B. 28.

Location:

Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the London Free Press August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Alexander Mclaren– Enlisted with the 99th Battalion in December 1915, Transferred to the 19th Battalion. Killed in action at Lens.

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