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McLEOD, Norman
(Service number 52640)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	06/10/1887	Place of Birth	Mataura

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Box 164, Timaru
Occupation	Builder
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married
Next of Kin	Mrs M. J. McLEOD (wife), care of R. Calvert, Otipua Road, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	28th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company
Date	24 July 1917
Transport	Waitemata
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

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Post-war Occupations

Builder

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Biographical Notes

Norman McLeod was the son of Neil and Beatrice (née Robson?) McLeod from the Isle of Skye. He married Martha Jane Calvert in 1915. he was a building contractor when he was called up in 1917. N. McLeod embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs); Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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