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Military service
Service number:
1075159
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
December 25, 1897
Long Point, Inverness County, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
April 25, 1916
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
August 15, 1917
Lens, Pas de Calais, France
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Son of Hugh and Jessie McLean, of Long Point, Inverness County, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private John Alexander McLean
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Photo of John McLean
My great-great uncle in his uniform (unknown date). -
Photo of JOHN ALEXANDER MCLEAN
From the book, Catholics of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia and the Great War 1914- 1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: PIcture Me -
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)
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Private John Alexander McLean
Digital gallery of
Private John Alexander McLean
Digital gallery of
Private John Alexander McLean
Digital gallery of
Private John Alexander McLean
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 286 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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