(5 Dec. 1889-28 Aug.1919), soldier. (J. Lawrence McLennan, J. L. McLennan, Jock McLennan; and at least to some RAF contemporaries, “Mac” McLennan) Born at Lancaster, GC. Parents: Duncan McLennan his wife Harriet Mair (see entry Mrs Duncan McLennan). He attended Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Que. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Kingston, in June 1911. (Glengarry News 23 June 1911) The same month he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army Service Corps of the British Army.

     As early in the First World War as August 1914, he was on his way from England to the front. (GN 21 Aug. 1914) By the beginning of Nov. 1918, Capt. J. L. McLennan was in Greece, having fairly recently left the Army Service Corps to join the Royal Flying Corps (predecessor of the Royal Air Force), and having accepted a reduction in rank from major to captain to do so. By this time he had been more than seven years in the Imperial Army (the British Army), and had won the Military Cross and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, and had been recommended for the Croix de Guerre. (GN 1 Nov. 1918) He was killed in action while acting as an observer in the Royal Air Force during the Allied intervention in Russia which followed WWI. His parents were notified of his death in Sept. 1919. (GN 19 Sept. 1919) The Cornwall Freeholder of 19 Feb. 1920 published a letter from an RAF colleague or officer to Mrs Duncan McLennan, of Ridgewood, Lancaster, describing how her son Capt. Jock (Mac) McLennan had been killed during the defence of a town on the Volga when a machine gun bullet penetrated the plane in which he was travelling. He is presumably buried in Russia, but he is among the servicemen commemorated on the Haidar Pasha Memorial at the Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Istanbul.

Killed in action, Glengarry News 19 Sept. 1919 * his death recalled, 20 Years Ago column, Standard Freeholder 22 Sept. 1939 * Ross, Lancaster, 282 * information kindly supplied by Royal Military College of Canada, National Defence Headquarters (Ottawa), Commonwealth War Graves Commission