MCLEOD, Donald
| Service Number: | 1459 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Breakish, Island of Skye, Scotland, 8 January 1889 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Breakish, Island of Skye, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Sailor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 15 April 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Nicholson, Sydney | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 1459, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Nicholson embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Donald McLeod was a sailor, born and raised on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He possibly jumped ship and enlisted with the 2nd reinforcements of the 4th Battalion in Sydney during late 1914. He served at the Gallipoli Landing and was twice wounded at Anzac. The second time he was evacuated with concussion, having been injured and buried and when a sap he was working in was blown up. He was eventually sent back to Australia to work in light duties, despite his application to be discharged in the UK, so he could go back to his family.
During October 1916 he reported back for duty in Australia and was sent back overseas during November 1916. He was killed in action on the 15 April 1917 when the Germans launched a powerful attack against the 4th Battalion outposts near Lagnicourt in France.
His older brother 32707 Pte Malcolm McLeod, 6th Imperial Yeomanry, was wounded at Brakspruit in the Boer War on 13 November 1901 and died later the same day.
Another brother, 1297 Sergeant John McLeod, 4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, died 10 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle.
All the sons of Angus and Rebecca McLeod, of Breakish, Isle of Skye, Scotland.