Family :

Education & Career :

Stationer at Bulawayo (1912).

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, South Africa.
• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

No Data has been recorded for the final action, because none has yet been found. If you have any information to offer, please contact the Project Team so we can add.

Detail :

From Great War Forum: "Albert Henry McLachlan, according to Lieut-Col. A. E. Capell's book on the Regiment had service number 1675, held the rank of Private and attested 26/10/1916. It also shows him as having died on 13/04/1917 which was also the date the Regiment, or rather what was left of it, arrived in Beira on the way home to Rhodesia. The Hollybrook Memorial, amongst others, bears the names of those who were lost or buried at sea, Capell makes mention that one of the ships in the convoy buried 28 men of the Cape Labour Corps at sea over a three day period, I wonder if it's possible that this was McLachlan's fate also.

The date of 10th April would have put him well and truly 'at sea' aboard H.M.S. Himalaya if that is indeed what happened, the remnants of the Rhodesian Regiment had left East Africa two days earlier on the 8th. Capell notes that they had 84 cases on the sick list, mostly malarial, but doesn't mention any casualties as such which doesn't help us. I'm not quite sure how to prove this one."

Masonic :

The record of the Lodge at the United Grand Lodge of England shows "Killed in Action 10 Apr 1917"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley