Place: Oatlands, Tasmania, 7120
District: Central North & Midlands
Orientation:
Location: Oatlands Town Hall, High Street, between Church Street and Barrack Street
Position: 42 17 99 S     147 22 31 E
Ref: 70097

The memorial is a marble plaque in the foyer of Oatlands Town Hall

Photograph of Trooper MacLaren
In Memoriam
TROOPER PERCY DOUGLAS MACLAREN
1^ST IMP: CONTGT: TASN: BUSHMEN
BORN AT OATLANDS ON 25^TH DEC^R. 1878.
KILLED IN ACTION AT BRONKHORST SPRUIT. S.A.
ON 22^ND JAN^Y. 1901.

BORNE 12 MILES IN AMBULANCE BY COMRADES
AND BURIED (WRAPPED IN A UNION JACK)
WITH MILITARY HONOURS AT BALMORAL.

"Your Son has paid a Soldier's debt:
"He only lived but 'till he was a man:
"But like a man he died."                 

ERECTED BY RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT

 

Information current to August 2001

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