Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Wargnies-Le-Grand Churchyard | On North Boundary. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.129 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 56C GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Family :
He was born at Greenock, Scotland and resided at Egremont, Cheshire and was Senior Deacon of his Lodge.? He enlisted at Wallasey, CheshireService Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 9th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment |
9th (Service) Battalion Formed at Chester on 13 September 1914 as part of K2 and attached to 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. Moved to Salisbury Plain and by December 1914 was in billets in Basingstoke. Returned to Salisbury Plain in March 1915. 19 July 1915 : landed at Boulogne. 7 February 1918 : transferred to 56th Brigade in same Division. |
| Action : The Final Advance in Picardy |
17 October - 11 November 1918. The final stage of the British advance saw them cross the Selle and the Sambre rivers as the relentless pressure was kept on the retreating Germans. By the 11th November 1918 the British army had returned to Mons, where it all started for them back in August 1914 when it made its first contact with the Germans, and where the war stopped when the Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Detail :
64379 Lance Corporal MCLACHLAN David William Adams Cheshire Regiment 9th Battalion He was born at Greenock, Scotland and resided at Egremont, Cheshire and was Senior Deacon of his Lodge. He enlisted at Wallasey, Cheshire and was killed in action on the 4th November 1918 and is buried in Wargnies-Le-Grand Churchyard, France, on north boundary.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Seacombe No. 3468 E.C. | Cheshire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
4th January 1912 | 1st February 1912 | 10th April 1912 |
Listed as a 23 year old clerk from Egremont at the time of initiation in 1912. Two years of war service is noted before the contribution register is closed out for his entry with "Killed in Action 1918."
Senior Deacon
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