MCLEOD, Duncan Albert
| Service Number: | 2630 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 17 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tangambalanga, Victoria, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Kiewa, Indigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 2 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Puchevillers British Cemetery, France Puchevillers British Cemetery, Puchevillers, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Bank of Australasia Roll of Honour WW1, Yackandandah Memorial Gates |
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Duncan Albert McLeod was raised in Tangambalanga in Victoria and worked as a bank clerk. He worked for the Bank of Australasia and was a teller in Fremantle when he enlisted. From his service file and enlistment papers,Duncan appears to have been a widower and a was the father to a daughter born in 1914. It appears Duncan was badly wounded during the heavy fighting around Mouquet Farm on the 31 August 1916. He died of wounds two days later in the 44th Casualty Clearing Station at Puchevillers.
His medals were sent to his daughter, being cared for by his mother and father in law.
His younger brother, 829 Pte. Eric McLeod 6th Battalion AIF, was killed in action 15 August, 1916, aged 25. This was only a fortnight before Duncan died of wounds inflicted during the Pozieres fighting.
Federal Standard (Chiltern, Vic.) 6 October 1916.
Corporal D. A. (Bert) McLeod, son of Mr D. McLeod, 7 Byron Street, St. Kilda, Victoria, died of wounds in France on 2 September 1916. The late Corporal McLeod was an old Kiewa boy, and was well known in that district where his father owned and controlled the Union Hotel and a general store at Tangambalanga until a couple of years ago, when he disposed of his business interests and properly and retired. He was a clerk in the Bank of Australasia, Chiltern, a few years ago.