Lieutenant John Donald McLennan
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
McLennan,
John Donald
Date of birth: 1880-06-01
Place of birth: River Deny’s Nova Scotia Canada
Next of kin: Mrs. Georgina G. McLennan, wife, Field, British Columbia
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Railway Conductor
Address:
Field, British Columbia
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Givenchy-En-Gohelle Communal Cemetery, C. 3.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Lieutenant
(72nd Battalion)
Rank detail
- Lieutenant (Army).
- Lieutenant, 72nd Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: He was killed by enemy shell fire on the morning of April 9th, 1917, during the attack on Vimy Ridge
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 561755
LAC ID:
163181
Attestation record(s): image 1
Service file: B7068-S031
Uploader's Notes:
Married Georgie Gertrud Urquhart at Sandwick, British Columbia November 23, 1905.
Son of Allan and Margaret McLennan; husband of Georgina G. McLennan, of Comox, British Columbia.
Prior military service with 102nd Regiment, Rocky Mountain Rangers.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 172nd Battalion D Company Lieutenant Army Canadian Infantry 72nd Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-13