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Major Archibald McLean

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Archibald Alexander McLean

Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Alcohol, Heart Failure

Service Number: Officer - no number

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Inverell NSW

Unit: A Squadron

Rank attained in Boer War: MAJ, Date Effective: 15/10/1901

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided

Murray Page: 110

Contingent: 2nd NSW Mounted Rifles

Ship: SS Aberdeen ex Melbourne VIC, Date of Sailing: 06/11/1899

Memorial details: Monument at Inverell cemetery.

Decorations: Queens medal 7 clasps, Kings medal 2 clasps, Mentioned in dispatches London Gazette 7th September 1901

Personal Characteristics: Brave soldier and a brilliant horseman.

Reasons to go and fight: He felt honour bound.

Details of service in war: Wounded 10th May 1901, Promoted from Captain to Major on the 15 October 1901, served: Paardeberg, Driefontein, Wittenergen, Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal. His horse Phonograph survived the entire campaign and returned to Inverell in 1902.

Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Stuart Neil Douglas McLean-Forrand, Lismore NSW

Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew


 

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