Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
Robert McLaren
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- Service no: ZX 8
- Rank: Seaman
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- Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Division
- Unit/Ship: Hood Battalion, RN Div
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- Address: 19 Blackness St, Dundee
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More about Robert McLaren
Robert McLaren ZX8 Hood Bn Royal Naval Division
DUNDEE NAVYMAN’S RELICS OF ANTWERP.
A piece of German shell and a granite like oblong object, which proved to be a biscuit, are among the relics brought home from Antwerp by Robert M’Claren, a Dundee Naval Volunteer, who resides at 19 Blackness Street. As a stretcher-bearer, it fell to him to convey shattered Belgians and Britishers from the battlefield to hospital. “Duck lads!” was the cry, he said, when the nerve-racking whizz of a shell was heard in the air. He got more than one glimpse of the Germans, but could not make out their faces―it was generally their backs.
Dundee Courier 15th October 1914
Information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell
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