Roderick (William) MACLEOD

BIRTH: 15 JAN 1905

Father: Reginald George McQueen MACLEOD
Mother: Cicely Knightley BOYD

Family 1: Camilla Rachel Hunter FELL

[Daughter] MACLEOD

                                                                                              _Alexander MACLEOD _________
                                                                _William MACLEOD ____________|____________________________
                                    _William Couperus MACLEOD _|
                                   |                           |                              _Governor Abraham COUPERUS _
                                   |                           |_Catherine Johanna COUPERUS _|____________________________
 _Reginald George McQueen MACLEOD _|
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|                                  |                            _Major Donald MACLEOD _______|_Anne MACLEOD ______________
|                                  |_Jane Anne MACLEOD ________|
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|--Roderick (William) MACLEOD 
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|_Cicely Knightley BOYD ___________|
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!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 194. Roderick (William), born o 15th January 1905 and educated at Wellington College and R.M.A. Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1925. He was present at operations N.W. Frontier India 1931-45. Director of Military Defence College 1947. Assistant Commandant Staff College 1948-49. Commander Royal Artillery 7th Armoured Division 1950. Director of Military Operations War Office 1951-54. G.O.C. 6th Armoured Division 1955-56. Chief Army Instructor Imperial Defence College 1957. Deputy Chief of Defence Staff 1957-60. Commander British Forces Hong Kong 1960-61. General 1961. G.O.C.-in-C. Eastern Command 1962-65. A.D.C. (Gen.) to the Queen 1963-65. D.L.Surrey 1967. G.B.E. 1964. K.C.B. 1958. Commander Order of Leopold II 1946. Chevalier Legion of Honour 1945. Croix de Guerre avec Palme 1945. He married (1) 1933, Camilla Rachel Hunter (died 1942), daughter of Sir Godfrey Fell, K.C.I.E., C.S.P., O.B.E., with issue. He married (2) in 1946, Mary Vavasour Lloyd Thomas, M.B.E. (nee Driver), widow of Major R.J.H. Thomas, M.V.O., R.H.A.

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