Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Barclay Thompson Mclean

Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service Number: 79

Colony or State of enlistment: Not applicable, Place of Enlistment: South Africa

Unit: DAMANT'S HORSE (formerly known as RIMINGTON'S GUIDES).

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post war service

Murray Page: Not applicable, did not serve in an Australian unit

Contingent: Not applicable

Ship: Travelled privately to South Africa

Memorial details: Not known

Decorations: Unfortunately my information is limited as I only have his Service Medal (Presumably Queen and King's South Africa medals with clasps).

Personal Characteristics: Vegetable and cattle farmer in Croydon area.

Reasons to go and fight: Not known

Details of service in war: January 1901 - March 1902 in Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony

Service and life after the Boer War: After the war settled in Hampton Victoria

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: John Barclay McLean, Somerville VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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