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Military service
Service number:
68127
Age:
27
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
January 5, 1889
Big Island, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
January 5, 1914
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Lauchlin and Elizabeth MacLean, of Big Island, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Brother of Pte James Macglashan, deceased 21 June 1917 and Pte Hector Norman, deceased 12 January 1918. He enlisted stating that he was single and a studen.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Mourning Mother
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Vimy Memorial
August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
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Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Neil Archibald MacLean
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 128 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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