WWI · Battle Death Record
Harold MacLachlan
Major, U.S. Marine Corps · New Jersey
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Harold MacLachlan
- Entered the Service From
- New Jersey
- Rank
- Major
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Unit / Regiment
- 13th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- September 27, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Seringes-et-Nesles, France
- Grave
- Plot A, Row 28, Grave 9
Their story
Major Harold D. MacLachlan, a 1912 U.S. Naval Academy graduate from New Jersey serving with the 13th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps, is the highest-ranking Marine officer buried at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery. He died of influenza in a hospital in France on 27 September 1918, before reaching the front, during the WWI flu pandemic.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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