John Cheetham MACLEOD

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

Family 1: Ann Patricia GLEGG
  1. Hamish John MacDonald MACLEOD

                                                                                                 _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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|--John Cheetham 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. 46-47. Born on 20th March, 1918, was educated at Wellington College and at the R.M.A., Woolwich. Commissioned in the Royal Artillery in January 1938, he joined the 17 Field Regiment, with which he went to France in February 1940. He was in action at Thionville and Abbeville and in the withdrawal to Le Havre, being embarked at Cherbourg on 18th June 1940. In March 1941, he sailed with the 137 Field Regiment to the Far East, arriving at Singapore on the 30th November 1941. He was engaged continuously in actions against the Japanese with the 11th Indian Division at Jitra on the Thai border, Alorstar, Ipoh, Arik, where he was wounded, Trolak and Skin River, in which action the Regiment suffered 273 casualties. Together with the regrouped remnants, he saw action with the 45 Brigade on the Muar River. On the 22nd January 1943 he was in action at Yong Peng. The troop was withdrawn to Singapore Island on 11th February and was constantly in action until eventually surrounded by the Japanese. He and two signallers escaped in the dark in a small boat reaching Dutch territory, where the Dutch commandant held them till the arrival of the Japanese. He was held as a prisoner of war at Changi, the Moulmein railway lines and Nong Pladok II. Suffereing from cholera, malaria and meningitis, he nevertheless attempted to escape to join the Karens but was prevented from doing so by sickness. He was finally released in September 1945 and returned to the United Kingdom after visiting his brother Norman in India in 1946. He married in 1959, Ann Patricia, daughter of Major and Mrs. J.D. Glegg of Trenarth, Falmouth, Cornwall, neice of the Dowager Marchioness of Reading. Major Glegg served in the Dublin Fusileers and the Egyptian Police. John Cheetham MacLeod and Ann Patricia Glegg have one son, Hamish John MacDonald, born on 21st October 1960.


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