Duncan McLean

Duncan McLean made it home to Killearnan just a few weeks before his death: the Rossshire Journal obituary reported his visit was to see his aged and infirm parents.

The paper quotes a letter from the regimental chaplain David Herron to Donald McLean: ‘‘Just a few days ago he had been offered the position of Transport Officer of the brigade with the rank of Captain, but evidently his service in this work was finished and God took him to other work through the thin film which we call death.’’

Donald McLean died in Killearnan in 1922 and his wife Anne soon after. Duncan McLean’s brother John had died in infancy, and his sister Annie died in nearby Parkton in 1941.