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Pte. Harold Bruce McLagan
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 9th Coy. Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
from:Carluke, Ontario
(d.4th Nov 1917)
Harold McLagan died of wounds on the 4th of November 1917, aged 34 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France.
He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 9th Company, Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He was wounded at Passchendaele Oct 26th 1917 and died of his wounds November 4th 1917, aged 33 (born Sep 7 1884). He was the son of James and Isabella McLagan of Carluke, Ontario.
Tragically for the generation that followed him, only the first of his optimistic projections, written from France Aug 7th, 1917 in a letter to his sister Beatrice, proved to be accurate:
"… this old war cannot last forever and I think the world will be too wise to ever let another one commence."