MacLaurin, Henry Normand

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B.A., Law : Brigadier-General, 1st Infantry Brigade, A.I.F., Gallipoli. Enlisting at the outbreak of War, transferred from 26th Infantry, A.M.F., as colonel, to command 1st Brigade, and went with it to Anzac, serving till death. Killed in Action, Anzac, 27th April, 1915, and buried in 4th Battn. Parade Ground Cemetery. Lieutenant and Adjutant, Scottish Rifles, and Lieutenant-Colonel, 26th Infantry A.M.F., August, 1914. Early education at Blair Lodge School, Scotland. The brigadier, MacLaurin, was a man of lofty ideals, direct, determined, with a certain inherited Scottish dourness rather unusual in a young Australian, but an educated man of action of the finest type that the Australian Universities produce.

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1878

Birth in Sydney -- NSW, Australia 31 October 1878
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Early education at Blair Lodge School, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
1899

Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia 1899
1914

Military service as Brigadier General at Gallipoli -4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery-, Turkey 1914
1914

Enlisted 15 Aug 1914
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MacLaurin, Charles
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Commemorated at MacLaurin's Hill : Anzac Cove [ Gallipoli Turkey ]
1915

Death in Gallipoli -Anzac Cove-, Turkey 27 April 1915

Gender

Male

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