Date of enlistment | 12th July 1915 |
Rank at enlistment | Acting Sergeant |
Company | C Company |
Significant events while serving with the AIF | Wounded in Action – Pozieres
Promoted to Corporal |
Summary of Corporal McLeod’s WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455
Date | Location | Event |
30th April 1917 | Australia | Discharged – medically unfit |
31st December 1916 | Australia | Disembarked at Melbourne |
12th November 1916 | England | Discharged from 1st Auxiliary Hospital for return to Australia on HT Wiltshire from Portland |
30th October 1916 | England | Report to Harefield after furlough |
14th October 1916 | England | Discharged to furlough |
6th October 1916 | England | Transferred to 1st Auxiliary Hospital Harefield |
20th August 1916 | England | Admitted 2nd Birmingham Hospital Lichfield |
19th August 1916 | France | Embarked on HS Dieppe from Calais for England |
6th August 1916 | France | Admitted to St. Johns Hospital, Etaples |
5th August 1916 | France | Wounded in Action – gunshot wound head and chest (severe). Fractured parietal bone |
29th June 1916 | France | Took part in a raid on enemy trenches on the night of 29th/30th June |
26th March 1916 | France | Disembarked Marseille |
19th March 1916 | Egypt | Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle |
7th March 1916 | Egypt | Promoted to Corporal (temporary) |
8th January 1916 | Egypt | Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir |
25th October 1915 | Egypt | Disembarked Alexandria |
29th September 1915 | Australia | Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley |
3rd August 1915 | Australia | Assigned to 5th Reinforcements 22nd Battalion |
19th July 1915 | Australia | Marched into Broadmeadows depot |