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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
3rd Div. Ammunition Col.
Death:
October 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. M. 9.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paton McLea, of Montreal.
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Circumstances of Death
<p>Circumstances of Death Card: "Died of Wounds"</p> <p>On the morning of October 28 1917, he was in charge of a pack train of about 200 mules, loading ammunition at "B" Dump, Oxford Road. About 11.00 o'clock a number of Gotha bombing planes came over and bombed the dump and vicinity. Lieutenant McLea who was on the road near the dump was hit by one of the bombs, which shattered all the lower part of his body. He was carried to a dressing station, from there evacuated to No. 8 Canadian Field Ambulance, where he died shortly afterwards. </p> -
War Diary
War Diary of the 3rd Canadian Divisional Ammunition Column with entry pertaining to Lieutenant K.W. McLea. -
Grave Marker
Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Kenneth Wetzlar McLea
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Lieutenant Kenneth Wetzlar McLea
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth Wetzlar McLea
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth Wetzlar McLea
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 286 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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