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Military service
Service number:
B/48606
Age:
21
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Hussars, R.C.A.C.
Division:
6th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
September 28, 1922
Cape Croker, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 16, 1940
Owen Sound, Ontario
Death:
July 27, 1944
South of Caen, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. F. 1.
Additional information
Son of John M. and Mary Louise McLeod (1972 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother), of Wiarton, Ontario.
Brother of Malcolm, Donald, Max, Reginald, LeRoy, Angeline, Daisy, Lila, Marie and Private Alfred McLeod, Perth Regiment, killed in action January 17, 1944.
Digital gallery of Trooper John Joseph McLeod
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Group Photo
Mrs. John M. McLeod, Silver Cross Mother 1972 accompanied by her daughters in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower. -
Entrance
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Grave marker
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Time February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Time February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Time February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 390 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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