During the action at Capuzzi in November 1941, he was ordered to bring another gun forward, No. 1 which "drove forward under cover of the west wall of the old fort until the driver was killed by a sniper. McClelland at once brought his gun into action and ‘engaged and knocked out an enemy tank, silenced a machine gun nest, and dislodged a considerable number of enemy infantry" [page 249, 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery] Another account states that "Second-Lieutenant Chance, Sergeant McClelland and Bombardier Manning knocked out a German tank, a heavy machine gun and another gun with well-aimed fire from the No. 3 Bofors." [ref page 119, 23 Battalion official history]

During the action at Capuzzi in November 1941, he was ordered to bring another gun forward, No. 1 which "drove forward under cover of the west wall of the old fort until the driver was killed by a sniper. McClelland at once brought his gun into action and ‘engaged and knocked out an enemy tank, silenced a machine gun nest, and dislodged a considerable number of enemy infantry" [page 249, 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery] Another account states that "Second-Lieutenant Chance, Sergeant McClelland and Bombardier Manning knocked out a German tank, a heavy machine gun and another gun with well-aimed fire from the No. 3 Bofors." [ref page 119, 23 Battalion official history]