Profile

McLACHLAN, Colin John Alexander
(Service number 20931)

Aliases
First Rank	Quartermaster Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	abt 1891	Place of Birth	New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Engine Driver
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs A. Mclachlan (mother), Doyleston, Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	19th Reinforcements Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date	15 November 1916
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth or Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	12 October 1917	Age	26
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot cemetery, Zonnebeke, West vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	XX. F. 7
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Dolyston Roll of Honour

Biographical Notes

Colin McLachlan was the son of Archie (Archibald Hugh) and Mary (Mary Eliabeth nee Charles) McLachlan, of Hazelburn, Dolyston, Canterbury, Otago

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014); 'nzhistory.net.nz'; NZ Historical BDM records (bdmhistoricalrecords,dai.govt.nz)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG

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Not assigned.

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