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Military service
Service number:
M/101975
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Birth:
February 24, 1924
Calgary, Alberta
Enlistment:
June 6, 1942
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
December 26, 1943
Mediterranean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. G. 7.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and the late Alexandra (nee Harper) MacLeod, of Cobble Hill, Vancouver, Island, British Columbia. Formerly from Calgary, Alberta. Brother of Flight Sergeant Alexander Owen MacLeod, Royal Canadian Air Force, killed in action 13 October 1942.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Private John Harper MacLeod
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Youth Delegate Jack Finn, from North Vancouver, British Columbia, gives a commemorative presentation at the grave of John Harper MacLeod, at the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery on October 27, 2004. -
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private John Harper MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Private John Harper MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Private John Harper MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Private John Harper MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Private John Harper MacLeod
Digital gallery of
Private John Harper MacLeod
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 185 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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