The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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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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