Records Of The Men Of Lochbroom | 056 ALEXANDER M'LEOD

56 - RECORDS OF THE MEN OF LOCHBROOM

1917

24743. SERGT. ALEXANDER M'LEOD,

Cross of St. George (3rd Class, Russian)

13th Bn. 1st Canadian Contingent.

Aged 28

Son of Mr. Alexander M'Leod, Achnahaird, Achiltibuie.

Joined the Canadian Army	Sept. 1914.
Wounded	15th Aug. 1916.
Wounded and missing at Hill 70	15th Aug. 1917.

Had one brother serving -

Duncan M'Leod, the American Army.

“ France lives and France is free, and Canada is better because she did something worth while to help free France to live. In many hundreds of plots throughout these hills and valleys, all the way from Flanders to Picardy, lie fifty thousand of our dead. Across the leagues of the Atlantic, the heart strings of our Canadian Nation will reach through all time, to these graves in France.

‘ Their name liveth for evermore.’ “

- Words spoken by the Canadian Premier at the veiling of the Cross of Vimy.

Official information

Official record (CWGC)

Cemetery / Memorial: Loos British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Grave: IX. A. 4.

Location and Map (CWGC)

Local Memorial: Coigach

additional information

Sergeant M’Leod is also commemorated on the Canadian War Memorial. Click the following link :

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/562534?Alexander%20McLeod

Family information

His connection with the Parish today is not known.

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