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McLEOD, Alexander
(Service number 6/2223)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	20 February 1882.	Place of Birth	Albury, New South Wales, Australia.

Enlistment Information

Date	13 Feb. 1915.	Age	32 years
Address at Enlistment	C/o Orr Bros., Waitohi, Timaru, NZ.
Occupation	Labourer.
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Hugh McLeod (father), Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
Religion	Presbyterian.
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	6/13/1915
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington, NZ	Destination	Suez, Egypt (24 July - 6 August 1915)

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	27 September 1916	Age	34 years.
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in Action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France.
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Alexander McLeod was the son of Hugh and M. McLeod, of Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Sources

Cenotaph

External Links

Researched and Written by

Lesley Tennent (SC branch NZSG)

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