Donald Bain McLeod
1st class Petty Officer
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5' 5½"
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39"
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Stout
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Fair
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Blue
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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 |