Norman Portal MACLEOD

BIRTH: 10 OCT 1916
DEATH: AFT 1964

Father: Brigadier Norman MacDonald MACLEOD
Mother: Irma H. Lamphier PORTAL

Family 1: Priscilla Ann LUSHINGTON

MARRIAGE: 10 JUN 1940

                                                                                                 _William MACLEOD ______
                                                                    _Alexander MACLEOD _________|_Marjory May NICOLSON _
                                       _Sir John Cheetham MACLEOD _|
                                      |                            |                             _Dr. Andrew KELTY _____
                                      |                            |_Agnes Duncan KELTY ________|_______________________
 _Brigadier Norman MacDonald MACLEOD _|
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|                                     |                             _Dr. John Graham MACDONALD _|_______________________
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|--Norman Portal MACLEOD 
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|_Irma H. Lamphier PORTAL ____________|
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!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 45-46. Born in London on 10th October 1916, was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 27th August 1936, he joined the 22nd Field Regiment, one of the last horsed units. He served in France and Belgium from the outbreak of hostilities until he was evacuated at Dunkirk on 4th June 1940. From June 1940 to May 1943, he served in England as an Instructor of Gunnery and from May 1943 was a Battery Commander in the 97 Anti Tank Regiment in the 15th Scottish Division. With his Regiment he disembarked on the 13th June 1944 at Le Hamel in Normandy. He was in action in the battles south of Caen until recalled to go to the Staff College on 22nd July 1944. in March 1945 he joined the 55th Heavy Regiment and sailed to India in June that year. The war ended before his Regiment came into action and he was then engaged in disbanding Indian Army units at Kamareddi near Secundarabad. From September 1946, he served as a regimental officer and qualified parachutist as Battery Commander and Commanding Officer in 158 parachute Field Regiment and 9 (para.) Field Regiment, Royal Indian Artillery at Karachi and in Poona after Partition. He embarked with the last ship-load of British troops to leave India. From February 1948 to November 1950, he served as a Battery Commander in 82 and 69 H.A.A. Regiments in Edinburgh. He was posted to Kenya in December 1950 and served with 156 East African H.A.A. Battery till November 1953 during the Mau Mau troubles. He returned to the United Kingdom in November 1953 and was trained as an Air Photographic Interpreter and served as a Photo Interpreter at Nuneham Park, The War Office, as a G.S.O.2, Germany (B.A.O.R.) and the Far East (Singapore). In August 1964, he was appointed Chief Instructor at the Joint School of Photographic Interpretation. He married on 10th June 1940, Priscilla Ann Lushington, elder daughter of C. F. Lushington and grand-daughter of Col. Sir Arthur V. Hammong, V.C., K.C.B. He has two son.

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