McClelland Barclay | |
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![]() Barclay in 1933 | |
Born | 1891 St. Louis, Missouri, US |
Died | July 18, 1943 at sea near the Solomon Islands | (aged 51–52)
Buried | Lost at sea |
Allegiance | United States |
Service | Navy |
Years of service | 1938–1943 |
Rank | Lt. Commander |
McClelland Barclay (1891 – 18 July 1943) was an American illustrator. By the age of 21, Barclay's work had been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve in 1938[1] and following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he went on active duty. At the time of his death, in 1943, he was a Lt. Commander.