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Military service
Age:
35
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
July 18, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. D. 2.
Additional information
Son of Murdo MacAulay MacLeod and Katharine McKay MacLeod, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
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News clipping
Obituary from Toronto newspaper. -
Photo of Kenneth MacLeod
Lieutenant Ken MacLeod joined up in June 1940 with the QOR of C. After service in Nfld and N.B., he went as a rifleman to England in July 1941. He returned to Canada in May 1942 for his officer's course and eventually rejoined the Regiment in March, 1944.He landed on D-Day and was killed in action leading a platoon of A company at Giberville. -
Gravemarker of Ken MacLeod
This photo of Lt. MacLeod's grave at Beny-sur-mer Cemetery was taken by Craig B. Cameron, the Padre of the QOR of C, during the D+ 50 (Op Normandie Return) visit in June 1994. -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 375 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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