MCLEOD, Angus
| Service Number: | 716 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 September 1914, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 35., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 716, 12th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 17 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 716, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 716, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He enlisted on 3rd September 1914-only weeks after Great Britain declared war on Germany. He stated his age as 35 years and 11 months. He gave his birthplace as Inverness, but he appears on one of the War Memorials in Ross & Cromarty.
Before emigrating he had served in the Highland Artillery. He gave his Next of Kin as Bella [Isabella] McLeod of 80 [later 93] Church Street, Inverness.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Angus is remembered on the Fodderty [Strathpeffer and District] War Memorial which takes the form of an entrance archway and decorative iron gates to Fodderty Cemetery 2 miles west of Dingwall on the A834 road at Fodderty near Strathpeffer,Ross And Cromarty,Highland,IV14 9AD,Scotland.
Fodderty (Scottish Gaelic: Fodhraitidh) is a small hamlet, close to Dingwall, Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands.Nearby Strathpeffer (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Pheofhair) is a village and spa town in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. It lies in a glen five miles west of Dingwall, with varying elevation from 200 to 400 feet above sea level.
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