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Cpl. Donald McLean

British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

from:Partick, Glasgow

(d.21st October 1914)

My grandfather, Corporal Donald McLean, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is commemorated at Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. He is the first name for 1914 on the Rothesay War Memorial, Bute-shire.

He was promoted to Corporal from Lance Corporal after saving the life of Captain Stirling who was wounded by shrapnel. He left behind his seven months' pregnant widow (the baby was my father, also named Donald) and four other children. He had just had his 34th birthday the day before he died on 21st of October 1914 in Flanders.



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