MACLEOD, Duncan Dan
| Service Number: | 945 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cawdor, Nairn Scotland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine driver |
| Died: | Killed In Action, La Chapelle d'Armentieres, France , 7 June 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ration Farm Military Cemetery, la Chapelle-D'Armentieres Plot I, Row H, Grave 12 Headstone Inscription "THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY BLESSED BE HIS NAME" |
| Memorials: | Fremantle 849 Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 945, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 945, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 7 Jun 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 945, 28th Infantry Battalion, Killed in action |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of James and Janet McLEOD, of Balculcaich, Cawdor, Nairn, Scotland.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
28th Bn., C Company, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 42 and he is remembered on the Cawdor cairn war memorial along with two other Australian soldiers of the Great War-Richard Russell and John MacPherson.
Address c/o J Fraser, Swan Street, North Hawthorn, Western Australia
Enlistment date 6 May 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 3 May 1915
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/45/1.
Age at embarkation 40
Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 29 June 1915
Two ships sailed from Fremantle carrying men from the 28th Battalion Headquarters, and Companies A, B, C and D. From embarkation records it is not possible to distinguish exactly which ship each man sailed on. They are: 30 officers and 982 others embarked at Fremantle, Western Australia, on HMAT A11, 'Ascanius', on 29 June 1915 and 12 others embarked at Fremantle, Western Australia, on HMAT A36, 'Thirty-Six, on 12 July 1916.
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