BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WILLIAM ARTHUR McLEAN (1864-1928) & ALICE McLEAN (1862-1944), OF 14 GLASGOW STREET, HULL AND 5, IVY VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A POSTMAN. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A CLERK AND LIVED AT 2, WINSLADE CRESCENT, PERTH STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS).
DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 35-37 INCH CHEST, GOOD VISION.
SAMUEL WALTER McLEAN (1897-1926), ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 20/11/1914. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EYR & DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY AT HOME FOR TWO YEARS & 225 DAYS. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 3/7/1918. TRANSFERRED TO THE 18TH YORK & LANCS REGIMENT AND APPOINTED AS CORPORAL. HE WAS DISCHARGED ON 13/7/1919. MARRIED EDITH MARTINSON AT HULL IN 1923. DIED ACCIDENTENALLY, AT HULL, IN 1926. (Hull Evening News, 22 Dec 1926).
HIS BROTHER, ALEC MCLEAN, ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 200805, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1918, AGED 22. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOGSTREERT MEMORIAL, HAINAUT, BELGIUM. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM.
BOTH BROTHERS ARE LISTED ON THE SAME WAR PENSION CARD.
