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Victorian Naval Forces Muster

for the Colony of Victoria. (muster range 1853-1910)*

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Last Name:McLeod
First Name:Donald Bain
Rank:1st class Chief Petty Officer
Birth Date: 13-09-1865
Branch:Victorian Navy

Donald Bain McLeod

1st class Petty Officer

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 5' 5½"

 39"

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Blue

   

From Volunteer Listing kept by CPO Goding & held by grandson Lawrence Dilks, Williamstown. Compared with China Contingent List. Prepared by Ada Ackerly, Directory Williamstown Museum, c 1987.


 

Chief Petty Officer Donald McLeod was Store Keeper of the Pascoe Street, Naval Reserve Depot, when he died in 1922. He was a former member of the China Contingent. Firing party at the graveside was under command of Captain Brewis and warrant Officer Harris.

excerpt from Deeds not Words, Wilson P. Evans,The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne 1971


 

Profile in The Australian Illustrated Enclclopaedia of The Boxer Uprising 1899-1901, Justin Corfield, Slouch Hat Publications, McCrae Australia, 2001.


Died on 28 March 1922. Buried in Williamstown cemetery.

Courtesy of Andrew Kilsby


* 1853 is given as the commencement date for the Victorian Navy as this is the year that Commander Lockyer (RN) went to Britain to superintend the building of HMCS Victoria.
Although the Victorian Navy ended in 1901 the career of Cerbeus etc continued. In 1910 the new ships started arriving & manning levels increased.

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