RAMC: Royal Army Medical Corps WW1

RAMC profile of:

William Mercer MACLAREN
[Service No: 59252]

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Place or Date of Birth:	Wellsgreen Place, Wemyss, Fife, Scotland

Service Number:	59252

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Rank:	Pte

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Outcome:	Survived the war

Date Died:	Died in 1976
Age Died:	83

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William was a coal miner before the war. He was a first aider - taking part in ambulance competitions between coal mine first aid teams. He entered the war in the Balkans on 6th November 1915 - [MIC]. William's family state that he saved a Polish officers life at Gallipoli. The officer gave him his Sam Brown belt and pistol. The pistol was handed back to the police in the sixties. After the war William married and lived in Randolph Street, Buckhaven, and worked in the Michael Colliery in Wemyss until he retired. [Information and photograph courtesy of William's family]