Person:Kenneth McLeod (16)
Kenneth Bruce McLeod
b.1920 Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
d.1 Mar 1940 Belmont, Victoria, Australia
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m. 31 Oct 1912
  1. Valda McLeod1916 - 2002
  2. Jack Ronald McLeod1918 - 1945
  3. Athol McLeod1919 - 1919
  4. Roderick McLeod1919 - 1919
  5. Kenneth Bruce McLeod1920 - 1940
  6. Norman Neil McLeod1922 - 1986
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Name[1] Kenneth Bruce McLeod
Alt Name[4][7] Bruce _____
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1920 Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
Death[2][5] 1 Mar 1940 Belmont, Victoria, Australia
Burial[3][6] 3 Mar 1940 Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia

Age 22, Son of Kenneth & Rose McLeod

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Births, in Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Great War Index, Victoria, 1914-1920: Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria
    Reg No. 3869, 1918.
  2. ↑ Death Certificate, in Victoria, Australia. Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates. (Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages)
    Reg. No. 17418, 1940.

    Cause of death: Fractured base of skull and broken neck.
    Killed during WW2 near Geelong Victoria during troop movements, possibly an exercise
    Bruce was stationary on his motorbike waiting for a military convoy to pass.
    Visibility was very bad because of large amounts of dust.
    The road should have been closed to civilian traffic but was not.
    Bruce was struck by a civilian vehicle and killed.
    Torquay Rd. Belmont Victoria ( near Geelong )

    Newspaper article:The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. ) Saturday 2 March 1940 page 3
    DESPATCH RIDER KILLED
    GEELONG, Friday - Kenneth Bruce McLeod, 22 years, despatch rider, at- tached to the Second Cavalry Division, of Dunkeld, was fatally injured near Belmont this evening He was riding a motor-cycle to Torquay, and came into collision with a motor-truck He died in the military hospital at Torquay.

  3. ↑ Dunkeld Cemetery Index, in Ian Marr. Cemeteries of South-West Victoria
    Seq No. 306.

    Dunkeld Cemetery
    undertaker C H Tucker
    service by Rev J P Gillan RC priest

  4. ↑ Valda McLeod.
  5. ↑ Cause of death: Fractured base of skull and broken neck.
    Killed during WW2 near Geelong Victoria during troop movements, possibly an exercise
    Bruce was stationary on his motorbike waiting for a military convoy to pass.
    Visibility was very bad because of large amounts of dust.
    The road should have been closed to civilian traffic but was not.
    Bruce was struck by a civilian vehicle and killed.
    Torquay Rd. Belmont Victoria ( near Geelong )
  6. ↑ Dunkeld Cemetery
    undertaker C H Tucker
    service by Rev J P Gillan RC priest
  7. ↑ Known as Bruce
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