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Duncan McLean

Name on Board D McLean
Name on Service
Records
Duncan  McLean
Enlistment Age 18
Occupation Clerk
Place of Birth Greenock, Scotland (Roseneath)
Next of Kin John and Jeanie McLean
Address 7 Laverton St, Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 21/07/1915
Service No. 3199
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 26/11/1915
Embarkation Ship HMAT Commonwealth A73
Unit on Embarkation 22nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 25/07/1916
Unit on Death 7th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Sergeant
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
France (No known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Additional Information Duncan McLean attended Scotch College from 1912 to 1914.  As he enlisted at the age of 18 he required a permission letter from his father.
Additional References Williamstown Chronicle: Saturday 26 August 1916, p2 Scotch College World War I Commemorative Website, D McLean
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