Person:Jack McLeod (3)
Jack Ronald McLeod
b.24 Nov 1918 Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
d.9 Mar 1945 No.1 Camp, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
Parents and Siblings
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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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Facts and Events
Name[2] Jack Ronald McLeod
Alt Name Jack Ronald MC LEOD
Gender Male
Birth[1][6] 24 Nov 1918 Hamilton, Victoria, Australia
Death[2][5][7][8] 9 Mar 1945 No.1 Camp, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
Burial[3][5][8] No.1 Camp, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

Service Record Name MCLEOD, JACK RONALD

Service Australian Army Service Number VX35983 Date of Birth 24 Nov 1918 Place of Birth HAMILTON, VIC Date of Enlistment 12 Jul 1940 Locality on Enlistment DUNKELD, VIC Place of Enlistment ROYAL PARK, VIC Next of Kin MCLEOD, KENNETH Date of Death 9 Mar 1945 Rank Gunner Posting on Death Anti Tank Regiment Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War Yes Roll of Honour Unknown

title="Army personnel in Gorari, New Guinea"

Age 24, Son of Kenneth & Rose McLeod. Died prisoner of war, Borneo

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Jack McLeod memorialized on his father's headstone as John. Should be Jack
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Jack McLeod memorialized on his father's headstone as John. Should be Jack
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References
  1. ↑ .

    Army service record

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 .

    Valda McLeod/Commonwealth War Graves Commission/Army service records

  3. ↑ .

    Commonwealth WarGraves Commission Database

  4.   .

    John Ryan

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 United Kingdom. Roll-of-Honour.org.uk.

    http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/atrocities/sandakan/M/html/mc_database_67.htm

  6. ↑ place of birth possibly should be Dunkeld
  7. ↑ Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment,
    of VX35983 Gunner Jack Ronald McLeod, 4th Anti Tank
    Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was one of over
    2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan
    POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there
    from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's
    that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on
    7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in
    Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Gunner McLeod, age
    24, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 9 March 1945.
    He was the son of Kenneth and Rose Emmaline McLeod,
    of Dunkeld, Vic. He is commemorated on the Labuan
    Memorial Panel 1. (Photograph copied from AWM232,
    items 4 and 5. Personal information from the
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 from oll-of-honour.org.uk
    Australian
    Royal Australian Artillery
    A.I.F. 4 A/Tk. Regt.

    Japanese POW
    POW Number: 1017


    Force: B - left Singapore 7th July 1942, arrived Sandakan 18th July.


    Survived/Died: Died


    Age: 24
    Date of Death: 1945/03/09
    Place of Death: Sandakan Number 1 Camp
    Buried: Sandakan Number 1 Compound (Cemetery on east side of track leading to camp, used untill March 1945).
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