Records Of The Men Of Lochbroom | 083 ALEXANDER MACLEAN

83 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

1918

40957. Pte. ALEXANDER MACLEAN,

10th Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.

Aged 27

A Clerk in Mr. Cameron’s Office, Ullapool.

Son of Mr. Kenneth Maclean, Shore Street, Ullapool..

Joined the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders	12th Nov. 1917.
Killed in action at St. Quentin	30th Sept. 1918.

Had two brother serving-

Duncan Maclean, 4th Seaforths.
Roderick Maclean, 7th Seaforths. Killed.

The Chaplain wrote:-

“I wish to assure you of the highest respect in which your dear boy was held by all who knew him – both for his exemplary character as well as his devotion to duty. His company came in for heavy enfilading fire that evening from an adjoining village, and suffered severely. We found your lad who had obviously been killed instantaneously lying alongside a comrade, and had them brought into a little cemetery behind the battlefield."

“Thus do we walk with him, and keep unbroken

The bond which nature gives ;

Thinking that our remembrance though unspoken,

May reach him where he lives.”

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

Cemetery / Memorial: Joncourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France.

Grave: A. 18.

Location and Map (CWGC)

Local Memorial: Ullapool, Right Panel, 15th from the top.

additional information

He and his brother are both commemorated locally on a family grave in the Old Parish Church, Argyle Street, Ullapool: “ALEX, KILLED IN FRANCE 30TH SEPT. 1918, AGED 27 YEARS.”

Family information

The connection with the Parish today is not known.

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