Pte. Eric Andrew McLaren

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Pte. Eric Andrew McLaren

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Waitahuna, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
Death: May 08, 1915 (23)
Daisy Patch, Cape Hellas, Gelibolu, Gelibolu İlçesi, Çanakkale, Türkiye (Turkey) (World War I: Killed in Action.)
Place of Burial: Eceabat İlçesi, Çanakkale, Türkiye
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas McLaren and Margaret McLaren
Brother of James McLaren; William Chapman McLaren and Pte. Thomas Corbet McLaren

Occupation: Auckland Infantry Battalion.
Find A Grave ID: 55950726
Service No: WWI 12/1740
Managed by: Private User
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About Pte. Eric Andrew McLaren

McLaren, Eric Andrew, Private, No. 12 1740. A Coy,. 3rd Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force'. 4th s. of Thomas McLaren, of Waitahuna. Miner (b. in Ireland), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Andrew Chapman; b. Waitahuna, Otago. New Zealand, 11 July, 1891; educ. Union Street School. Dunedin, and Richmond Road School. Auckland; enlisted 14 Dec. 1914: left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, and was killed in action at Daisy Patch. Cape Hellas, Gallipoli, 8 May. 1915; unm.

Sources

  1. New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/nzefrohMc.html / Ref 12.4.2021
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Pte. Eric Andrew McLaren's Timeline

1891
July 11, 1891
Waitahuna, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

Birth Registration Number: (reg. 1891/11841).

1915
May 8, 1915
Age 23
Daisy Patch, Cape Hellas, Gelibolu, Gelibolu İlçesi, Çanakkale, Türkiye (Turkey)
May 8, 1915
Age 23
Twelve Tree Copse New Zealand Memorial, Eceabat İlçesi, Çanakkale, Türkiye (Turkey)