PRIVATE GEORGE LYALL MCLAUCHLAN MM
47TH BATTALION CANADIAN INFANTRY
16TH APRIL 1917 AGE 40
BURIED: WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE
George McLauchlan emigrated to Canada in April 1910 at the age of 32. He enlisted in British Columbia in April 1915 and died of "shrapnel wounds, neck" in a base hospital in Boulogne on 16 April 1917. McLauchlan came from Struan, a small community in Perthshire. It was his brother, Alex, seven years older than him and an inspector on the Government railways in Ceylon, who chose his inscription. There's something rather moving about Alex in Ceylon remembering their Perthshire home on his brothers' headstone inscription in France.