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Sjt. McLeod
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
Lt. Alan Arnett McLeod VC
Royal Flying Corps 2 Squadron
from:Canada
Lt. Alan Arnett McLeod VC.
Royal Air Force
from:Winnipeg, Canada
(d.6th Nov 1918)
Lt. Alan Arnett McLeod was killed in action 06/11/1918, Age: 19, he is buried in the Winnipeg (Old Kildonan) Presbyterian Cemetery. He was the son of Dr. A. N. McLeod and Margaret Lillian McLeod, of 491, River Avenue, Winnipeg
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 1st May, 1918, records the following:- "Whilst flying with his observer (Lt. A. W. Hammond, M.C.), attacking hostile formations by bombs and machine-gun fire, he was assailed at a height of 5,000 feet by eight enemy triplanes, which dived at him from all directions, firing from their front guns. By skilful manoeuvring he enabled his observer to fire bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three of them down out of control. By this time Lt. McLeod had received five wounds, and whilst continuing the engagement a bullet penetrated his petrol tank and set the machine on fire. He then climbed out on to the left bottom plane, controlling his machine from the side of the fuselage, and by side-slipping steeply kept the flames to one side, thus enabling the observer to continue firing until the ground was reached. The observer had been wounded six times when the machine crashed in " No Man's Land," and 2nd Lt. McLeod, not withstanding his own wounds, dragged him away from the burning wreckage at great personal risk from heavy machine-gun fire from the enemy's lines. This very gailant pilot was again wounded by a bomb whilst engaged in this act of rescue, but he persevered until he had placed Lt. Hammond in comparative safety, before falling himself from exhaustion and loss of blood."
Lt. Alan Arnott McLeod VC
Royal Air Force
from:Winnipeg, Canada
(d.6th Nov 1918)
Alan Mcleod died on 06/11/1918, Age: 19 and is buried in grave 238 in the Winnipeg (Old Kildonan) Presbyterian Cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada He was the son of Dr. A. N. McLeod and Margaret Lillian McLeod, of 491, River Avenue, Winnipeg.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 1st May, 1918, records the following:- "Whilst flying with his observer (Lt. A. W. Hammond, M.C.), attacking hostile formations by bombs and machine-gun fire, he was assailed at a height of 5,000 feet by eight enemy triplanes, which dived at him from all directions, firing from their front guns. By skilful manoeuvring he enabled his observer to fire bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three of them down out of control. By this time Lt. McLeod had received five wounds, and whilst continuing the engagement a bullet penetrated his petrol tank and set the machine on fire. He then climbed out on to the left bottom plane, controlling his machine from the side of the fuselage, and by side-slipping steeply kept the flames to one side, thus enabling the observer to continue firing until the ground was reached. The observer had been wounded six times when the machine crashed in " No Man's Land," and 2nd Lt. McLeod, not withstanding his own wounds, dragged him away from the burning wreckage at great personal risk from heavy machine-gun fire from the enemy's lines. This very gailant pilot was again wounded by a bomb whilst engaged in this act of rescue, but he persevered until he had placed Lt. Hammond in comparative safety, before falling himself from exhaustion and loss of blood."
2nd Lt. Alan Arnett McLeod VC.
Royal Flying Corps 2 Squadron
from:Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada
(d.6th Nov 1918)
Alan McLeod was born on 20th of April 1899 in Stonewall, Manitoba, the son of a doctor. He enrolled in The 34th Fort Garry Horse in 1913 at age 14, but when the war started in 1914 Alan was sent home, as under age. When he became 18 he enrolled in the Royal Flying Corps in Toronto. After obtaining his pilot’s licence at Long Branch near Toronto, he was sent to France on 20th of August 1917
He was originally posted to No. 82 Squadron flying scouts, but then transferred to 51 Squadron on Home Defence duties, flying the B.E. 12 at night. However he was transferred back to France in December 1917 with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, where he was posted to No. 2 Squadron flying from Hesdigneul in northern France.
With Lt. Comber as his gunner, he was mentioned in dispatches for bringing down a Fokker and an observation balloon near Beauvin in January 1918. On 27th of March 1918 with his observer Lt. Arthur Hammond, in an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 he destroyed an enemy triplane and but they were immediately attacked by eight more, three of which they brought down. However their plane was hit and burst into flames and both pilot and observer were wounded. McLeod, by side slipping steeply, tried to keep the flames away from his observer, and when the machine finally crashed in No Man's Land, the young pilot, despite his own injuries, dragged his comrade from the burning wreckage and under heavy fire carried him to safety. McLeod was wounded three times in the side and Hammond was wounded six times. Hammond lost a leg but was awarded a bar for his Military Cross. McLeod received the Victoria Cross. He returned to Canada to recuperate but sadly died from Spanish flu on the 6th November 1918.
Cpl. Daniel McLeod
British Army 18th Btn. Middlesex Rgt.
from:Edinburgh
(d.20th August 1916)
Pte. Ernest McLeod
British Army 1/5 Sutherland & Caithness Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:11, Pole Street, Bolton, Lancs.
(d.4th Nov 1918 )
Ernest McLeod was the adopted son of my grandparents and volunteered for army service when war broke out. He was said to be 21 years old at the time. He served in Belgium and France and was said by the family to have been injured on four occasions, being repatriated to the UK on each occasion and returned to his unit after the first three but, unfortunately, died in Cromarty Military Hospital on the fourth occasion, it then being November 4th 1918.
He was to have been given a military funeral in Cromarty but my grandparents wanted him back home. They therefore travelled to Cromarty, claimed his body and had it trained back to Bolton. He is buried in the family grave at Christ Church Harwood, the funeral being attended by a Sergeant Major from his regiment who draped the coffin with a regimental flag. The coffin was lowered into the grave at 11:00 am and the sound of church bells could be heard from far and near as the armistice was declared.
I have to date been unable to trace any details of his birth or natural parentage or his war record which, I fear, may have been amongst those destroyed in the London Blitz. I will of course keep searching, he will be remembered.
Rfmn. Frederick William Mcleod MM.
British Army 18th (London Irish Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Wandsworth London
Frederick Mcleod, known as Old Mac was my Grandfather and he served throughout the first world war. He was at Loos and I believe he took part in the valiant Footballer of Loos incident. He won a Military Medal in Oct. 1918.
Having survived during the war he went to Ireland with the Black and Tans. He then tried to re-enlist in 1939 but was rejected as too old and served in the London Fire Brigade during the blitz, with all the danger and trauma that implies.
He survived until the 1980s and to us this brave hero was just Grandad.
Pte. George McLeod
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.15th Feb 1915)
Pte. George Mcleod
British Army 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(d.15th Feb 1915)
George McLeod is my great grandfather and I have been trying to research him for a while. Sadly, I don't have any photos of him, only his war penny and certificates and his obituary in our local newspaper. He was born in December 1889 and died 15th February 1915. His father was William and his mother was Mary Jane (nee Cocking). This time next week I will be visiting the Menin Gate in Ypres where he is mentioned. I just wish I had a picture of him.
Pte. George McLeod
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne
(d.15th Feb 1915)
George McLeod was my Great Grandfather, he was one of nine children and came from Byker near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he was killed in action near St. Eloi near Ypres, to which I have just recently visited and saw his name listed on the Menin Gate wall, which was indeed a very moving experience. I only wish I had a picture of him.
Sgt. James Goodall Mcleod
British Army 5th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:New Pitsligo
Sgt. James Goodall Mcleod
British Army Gordon Highlanders
James Mcleod was my great grandfather. He joined The Gordon Highlanders in New Pitsligo, Aberdeen in February 1913 as a territorial. In 1915 he was posted to Bedford where he met and married my great grandmother her maiden name was Vines, shortly afterwards he was posted to France. In December 1916 he was wounded and declared unfit for active service. He then became a machine gun instructor for the remaining duration of the war. After the war my great grandparents settled in New Pitsligo.
Pte. John McLeod
British Army 5th Bn. A Company Seaforth Highlanders
from:Sutherland
(d.5th Dec 1916)
John McLeod was born in Kildonan, Sutherlandshire in 1881. John enlisted in Golspie, Sutherlandshire and was in A Company, 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. John died on the 5th of December 1916 along with 9 other men during a night work party outside of Aveluy, France.
Pte. John McLeod
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Leigh, Scotland
My grandfather, John McLeod, served with the 7th Royal Scots. He was on the second train for Liverpool which was diverted after the first train carrying half his battalion was involved in the collision at Gretna Green.
He went to Alexandria and Malta then on to Lemnos. They sailed to Gallipoli and landed on V Beach. He was badly wounded in the attack on H12 and was bayoneted as he lay in the trench. The bayonet pierced both cheeks. He was rescued when the Hampshires came up in relief but had to have his left arm amputated at the elbow. He was brought back to Britain. He was married twice and had six children and lived till he was seventy nine.
Pte. Malcolm McLeod
Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force 85th Overseas Btn.
from:New Waterford, N.S. Canada
(d.22 March 1918)
My Great Uncle, Malcolm McLeod died of shot wounds to the head, arms and legs on 22nd March, 1918. His Official Casualty Form reports that his wounds were received in action and that the #1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station tended to his wounds and recorded his death. Can anyone provide me with the location of the #1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station on 21st March, 1918?
I am having difficulties determining which battle that he was involved. What I know: The German "Kaiser's Battle or Ludendorff Offensive" commenced on the 21 March, 1918. The attack was on the British 5th and 3rd Army. The attack was launched in the St Quentin area and advanced to the line of the Somme. Pte McLeod was a member of the 85th Battalion and he was received by the #1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station 21 March, 1918.
My hopes are to link Malcolm and the #1 C.C.C.S. with a location to determine where he was on 21 March 1918. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Gnr. Thomas McLeod
British Army Forth Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
William Mcleod
British Army 6th Btn.
from:Edinburgh
Pte William McLeod
British Army 2nd Bn The Seaforth Highlanders
from:Rothes, Morayshire
(d.4th October 1917)
QMS. Francis Thomas McLintic
British Army Cameron Highlanders
from:Inverness
My grandfather Francis McLintic enlisted in Inverness in the Cameron Highlanders in 1906 and was injured at the Battle of the Somme. He was discharged due to shell shock and lived the rest of his life, as I understand it, in institutions of some sort until 1963 when he died in Edinburgh. His last residence was with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, although according to one of the nuns his last known address before that was "West House". I don't know where that is. I do not know where he stayed between being discharged and his ultimate death since his wife, my grandmother moved the entire family [my father and aunt and a couple of her younger sisters] down to England since her husband didn't recognize her any more. It is a sad story.
By chance a few years ago I googled the name of my grandfather's sister and as a result came into contact with that side of the family. They too did not know much about their uncle Frank since their mother never visited him although she talked fondly of him. It was a veil of silence over both parts of the family and indeed, when I was a child I was told he had been killed in the First World War. I had no photos of him or my great grandfather since my grandmother had burned them all. As a result of my googling efforts though I received a wonderful surprise - the reconnected side of the family sent me photos of him and my great grandfather and great grandmother as well as other photos of my father and aunt. The stigma of mental illness, I suppose, was so huge that people could not bring themselves to admit they had a relative who suffered from it. My grandmother lived the rest of her days in England, a staunch member of the local church, pretending she was a widow.
Pte. Douglas McLintock
British Army 11th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Glasgow, Lanarks
(d.27th Sep 1915)
My great great great Uncle Douglas McLintock and his brother had always been tales in my family, I don't know much about them. His brother Peter, died in WW1 as well, six months before he did Peter Gordon McLintock was in Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)as well. He died in battle with the 2nd Battalion.
Piper Peter Gordon McLintock
British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Glasgow
(d.2nd Mar 1915)
Peter McLintock was born in Glasgow on 17th May 1896. He went to school at Mossbank Industrial School, Glasgow. He enlisted on 3rd October 1911 at the age of 15 as a "boy". At the age of 18 he became a Private and on 6th July 1914 was appointed a Piper. He died on 2nd March 1915 and is buried at Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapell-D'Armentieres. He was awarded 1914 Star, Victory Medal and British Medal. This information has been found in British Army WWI Service Records on the Ancestry website.
Graham Seton Hutchison wrote "A Batmans Biography" which is about Peter McLintock. According to the story, Peter McLintock was batman to Graham Seton Hutchison. The story says Peter was an orphan, in reality, he lost his mother in 1903, but his father lived until 1931. An extract of the story appeared in the Western Mail (Perth) on 12th of October 1933.
1st Engr. Daniel McLoughlin
Mercantile Marine SS Cluden
(d.22nd October 1916)
Daniel McLoughlin, First Engineer, Mercantile Marine, served on board the SS Cluden and died age 33 on the 22nd October 1916 when the vessel was sunk by an enemy submarine. He is remembered at Jarrow Library and Tower Hill Memorial.
Daniel was born in Jarrow 1882 and was the husband of Florence McLoughlin (nee Lambert) of 115 Lydgate Terrace, Stanhope Road, South Shields. In the 1911 census Florence (23) married, is living at 112 Lydgate Lane with her parents, Thomas (67) a retired Master Mariner and Margaret (61) who have been married for 47 years and 9 of their 10 children survived. Only Florence is living with them and her husband is probably at sea. They have no children at that date.
Cpl. James C McLoughlin
British Army 103rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Enfield, Co.Meath, Ireland
James McLoughlin enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1915 at Dover. He was sent to France with 103rd Siege Battery on 29 May 1916. 103rd Siege Battery was armed with two 12-inch railway mounted howitzers and served at Gommecourt during the Battle of the Somme. He remained with this battery for the remainder of the war and was wounded in March 1917 in the head and hand. He served in the Sudan and Cork after the war as a Sergeant.
103rd Siege Battery was commanded by Major Kenneth Douglas Hutchison for most of the war. Other officers who served during the war with this battery at various times were
- Captain John Carew Meredith,
- Lt.Charles Edward Reed,
- Lt Chadwick Nind Aytoun,
- 2/Lt Walter George White,
- 2/Lt Percy Tindell Maybury,
- Major A Notley,
- Capt. Francis Edward Rowland,
- Capt. H. Bamford,
- A/Capt. Edward Spalding,
- T/Capt. Edward Granville Eliot,
- 2/Lt. George Henry Edge,
- 2/Lt L.J. Ginnett,
- 2/Lt. James McIntosh Clark,
- 2/Lt. WWL Halkier,
- 2/Lt. Hugh Tristram Counsell,
- 2/Lt. Charles Palmer Nethton,
- 2/Lt/ D. Williams,
- 2/Lt. Reginald White Gridley,
- 2/Lt. Lowe.
Gunners who served included:
- 7769 Thomas H. Rooke,
- 8693 James William Carlisle,
- 16905 Richard Hogan,
- 18295 Ben Scott Redfern,
- 24084 Thomas Plowman,
- 28872 William Charles Bartholomew,
- 29896 William Henry Snook,
- 30862 Arthur Holt,
- 42878 William Page,
- 43138 Edwin Beaumont Faulkner,
- 46971 Arthur Merris Clatworthy,
- 47962 Wiliam J. Fogarty,
- 48152 Alfred J. Godfrey,
- 52057 Frank H. Bracey,
- 53558 Herbert Ripley,
- 57680 Arthur William C. Tyrer,
- 57681 Ernest Sheppard,
- 57682 Archibald L. Culliford,
- 57715 Thomas Ainscough,
- 57771 Charles H. Castro,
- 57786 Thomas W. Barrett,
- 57794 Henry Neal,
- 57809 William Maddams,
- 57820 Maurice Drummond Stirling,
- 57823 Thomas Shuttleworth,
- 57836 Ralph O. Beard,
- 57847 David H. Gilbert,
- 57851 James Whitfield,
- 57855 William Hill,
- 57865 Cecil E. Jory,
- 60540 William E Pellow,
- 62443 James E. Sale,
- 62499 Charles Henry Butler,
- 64050 Joseph Smith,
- 64073 Arthur Henry Dicken,
- 64107 George Mitchell Sutcliffe,
- 64168 Frank L. Chimes,
- 54232 Frank M. Stephens,
- 64280 George A. Fryer,
- 64404 Wilfred S. White,
- 64506 Malcolm Turner,
- 64549 Frank Ogden,
- 64666 Harry W. Ellis,
- 64667 Charles Tompkins,
- 64668 Henry Toogood,
- 64680 Henry Jones,
- 64694 Reginald C. Watsham,
- 64701 Ernest Burgess,
- 65486 Isaac Bell Armstrong,
- 65901 Daniel Mills Fry,
- 66074 Arthur Pickup,
- 66334 James Henry Smith,
- 66371 Henry B. Turner,
- 66386 William Christopher Singleton,
- 66608 John Strickland,
- 66822 George Edward Deighton,
- 67125 William George Castle,
- 67353 Percival Joseph Bowyer,
- 67960 Thomas Stanley Green,
- 68151 Stanley B. Wills,
- 70523 Frank Thomas May,
- 70589 Arthur Moore,
- 70828 James Walker Parker,
- 72451 Arthur Rayner Brown.
Lt. James Osborne McLoughlin
British Army 24th (1st Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
This is the transcript from a letter written by my Great-Uncle, James Osborne McLoughlin. It is written to his maternal Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary in Ireland. I will let the letter speak for itself..
1st Ty Irish Battn 7th Camp Sutton Veny Warminster, Wilts. Nov 25th 1915. 24th Northumberland Fusiliers Dear Uncle Tom,
In another few days the call we have all been longing for will come & we shall proceed to the Front, whether in France or Serbia we do not know. Anyhow we go & in a very few days now. After 13 months hard training.
I suppose I'm ungrateful & unnatural to have kept silent all these years. I know I am, but still I have had you often in my thoughts & as you see, I'm not going away without saying "Goodbye" & ask your benediction. And say a prayer now & then for me "not that I may come back, for I don't expect that somehow & anyway I should be proud to die for the Cause" but that I may die, if I am to die, nobly and fighting bravely, worthy of the regiment I have the honour to be in and heroically as every Irish soldier does die.
I suppose, at least I've heard, that you did not approve of my action in joining the Army, to do & die for England! Why not? After all though she has been a bad sister, she is a sister & we must help her. Besides who would be out of such a fight. And do we want it said, when the war is over, that Ireland did not do her share. Oh! Tom, if ever an Irishman lived who worshipped every blade of grass in her green fields & every sod of turf from her brown bog I am he. And I am proud to think that the lads I shall lead into action a few days hence are Irish lads & that the music that will fall on our ears will be [are crossed out] the shrill notes of the old Irish war pipes. Indeed it would do you good to see the Tyneside Irish stripped for action 4,500 of the finest, hardest men that ever put on khaki.
This all sounds like an Apologia and I don�t mean it to be. I am 'writing just to tell you that in your regard I am the same James as I always was; that I love you just the same & want you to look on the many acts by which I led you to believe that I was ungrateful, unmindful of the old days and that that love was dead. And I'm sending you a photograph so that you may see that if the Army has done nothing else it has made a man of me. Did you ever think that the [unreadable] you used to [unreadable] would one day work [?] all day, sleep in the fields all night and work in trenches for 24 hrs in pelting rain as I have done lately?
There is very little about A. Mary here but ask her not to mind and tell her I mean this letter for you both. I hope you are both well & that she is now grown out of the bilious bouts. I have.
And lastly. If poor old Granny understands, Mother tells me she is very childish nowadays, just tell her I was asking for her & that I send her my love. And would you you who are so kind to everyone & whom everybody loves, at least they used to, do all that you can to make her last few days of life as easy & as comfortable as you can.
Goodbye now dear aunt & uncle.
I send you my best love & renew my request for a prayer that I may not fail or falter.
Your loving nephew
James McLoughlin Lt. 24th S B N
L/Cpl. John McLoughlin
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.7th May 1915)
John McLoughlin died of wounds sustained with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots in fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke. John is buried in Les Gonards Cemetery.
Pte. John McLoughlin
British Army 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:25 Broom St, Ardwick, Manchester
John McLoughlin was posted to 11th Battalion on the 6th of November 1914 He was wounded at Suvla Bay in Aug 1915 and sent to Egypt where he developed Dysentry, Colitis and Paratyphoid, then Bronchitis. A Furlough was granted 3/2/1916 to 15/3/1916 when he was a an enteric convalescent at Southern General Hospital He also attended 3 hospitals in Cleethorpes area - Albert Road Regimental, Brighowgate Military Hospital and St Aidans VAD Hospital. John was transferred to Class W army reserve on 30/04/1917 There is also an undated document stating transfer to 3rd Manchester G Company. His disability is listed as Chronic Bronchitis & Emphysema and he was awarded Silver War Badge number B10828 on 11th of October 1918.
The family unaware of exact date of death, only knowing it wasn't long after 1918. As he was already a widower before the start of the war, his two sons were brought up by relatives as orphans.
Pte. Laurence Mcloughlin
British Army 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Wigan
(d.15th Feb 1916)
Laurence Mcloughlin was killed in action at the Bluff. He was buried at Spoilbank Commonwealth War Cemetery.
Cpl. Patrick McLoughlin
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
(d.22nd Sep 1915)
Patrick McLoughlin is buried about 13 yards south-west of the ruin in the Banagher Old Graveyard, Co. Offaly, Ireland.
Pte. William McLoughlin
British Army
from:25 Broom St, Ardwick, Manchester
(d.20 Aug 1917)
William McLoughlin died of wounds and is buried in Adinkerke Cemetery.
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