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Son of Murdo MacAulay MacLeod and Katharine McKay MacLeod, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Obituary from Toronto newspaper.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant 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.
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Lieutenant Kenneth 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.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
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)
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeod
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Obituary from Toronto newspaper.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 375 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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