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Trooper John Joseph McLeod

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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.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 390 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

The town of Bayeux, in Normandy, lies 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. Bayeux War Cemetery is situated in the south-western outskirts of the town, on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware.

Bayeux is an ancient and historic town of Normandy. Its cathedral was the seat of Bishop Odon, half-brother of William the Conqueror, who took part in the invasion of England; and in it is the tomb of an English soldier of the Hundred Years' War. Bayeux was the first French town of importance to be liberated from the Germans in June 1944.

On the opposite side of the road stands the Bayeux Memorial to 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and have no known grave.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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