James MCLEOD

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MCLEOD, James

Service Number:	1787
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Rushworth St. Paul's Church of England Great European War Roll of Honor, Rushworth War Memorial Clock Tower

World War 1 Service

14 Apr 1915:	Involvement Private, 1787, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
14 Apr 1915:	Embarked Private, 1787, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne

James McLeod

Name: James McLeod
Service Number: 1787
Service: Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War and WWII (Australia duties)
Place of Birth: Rushworth, Victoria, Australia (per Australian memorial database).
Employment: Grocer
Enlistment Location: Waranga (near Rushworth), Victoria.
Enlistment Date: 2/1/1915

James served in Gallipoli as part of the 7th Battalion. His younger brother Donald McLeod was tragically killed in Passchendaele and his name is on the Menin Gates, Ypres.
James was the eldest of 6 siblings and married Harriet Elizabeth Hicks in 1919. He died in the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, it has been told, after having a frontal lobotomy stemming from WWI PTSD.

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