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Second Lieutenant James Acheson MacLean MC

 

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Second Lieutenant James Acheson MacLean MC, 148th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Formerly a Lance Corporal in the North Irish Horse, Service No. 1295. Son of John and Martha Ann MacLean, Priestland, Coleraine, County Derry. Enlisted in October 1914. Embarked for France 30 November 1915. Commissioned as a temporary 2nd Lieutenant to the Royal Field Artillery, Special Reserve. Awarded the Military Cross in September 1916 (see citation below). Killed in action on 30 September 1917, aged 31. Buried at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave L.26. The gravestone inscription reads:

SECOND LIEUTENANT

J. A. MAC LEAN MC.

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

30TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 31

 

MacLean JA 2

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.