People - Regiment: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 7th Battalion, C Company

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM McLACHLAN (1868-1918) & MARY ANN SCALES, OF 8, KINGSTON VILLAS, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). PRIOR TO ENLISTING, ALLAN McLACHLAN WAS AN APPRENTICE MOULDER AT THE HUMBER BRASS AND COPPER WORKS, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER 1914. WENT TO FRANCE JULY 1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 12009, “C” COMPANY, … Read more