"Reggie" Tupper and "Vic" McLean [MacLean], 16th Battalion sitting on deck chairs on the HMST Andania, October 1914. CEF service files attached elsewhere. Victor Alexander MacLean [also spelt McLean] was an officer of the 72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada before the Great War. On 22 September 1914, he enlisted in Valcartier with the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion, CEF. He became a platoon commander in C (Seaforth) Company. MacLean arrived in France on 15 February 1915. He was wounded and captured on 28 April 1915. MacLean was awarded the Order of St. Anne, 4th Class, (Russia) on 25 August 1915. He was released on 18 November 1918 and transferred to the Militia District No. 11 (BC) Depot on 15 December 1918. McLean was stricken off strength on 17 October 1919. On 30 January 1920, he was awarded the Military Cross for his services when he was a Prisoner of War. Lieutenant Reginald Hippert "Reggie" Tupper. He had been with the 72nd Regiment for a year before the War. Later he served overseas with the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) C.E.F., was wounded and invalided back to Canada in 1915. Promoted to major, he assumed command of the 72nd Regiment in Vancouver from 1916 until 1919. This photo is from the album of Marshall Beck.