Laurence Herbert McLellan

Rank:

Lieutenant

Regimental number:

772199

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

May 26th, 1918

Cemetery:

Bellacourt Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - II.L.4.

Commemorated at:

Park Baptist Church, Freemason Brant Lodge No. 45

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

180 Nelson Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

180 Nelson Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Bookkeeper

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Trenches South East of Neuville Vitasse.

BX June 3, 1918

Lieutenant Laurence Herbert McLellan Killed in Action – Enlisted as Sergeant with 125th and was Promoted in England

Mrs. W.T. Pearce has received word that her nephew, Lieutenant Laurence Herbert McLellan, had been killed in action on May 26. Lieut. McLellan enlisted as a sergeant here with the 125th Battalion, and after the battalion arrived in England, was one of two picked out to take a commission. After taking a course at Oxford, he received his lieutenancy, and was later sent over to France to join the 19th Battalion with which he was serving when he was killed. Lieut. McLellan was brought up by Mrs. Pearce, and was, before enlisting, employed at the Bell Telephone Company here. He was popularly known and greatly liked in this city.