Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private D. D. McLeod, 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry, who was killed in a trench raid at Armentières, 7 June 1916

1914-15 Star (945 Pte. D. D. McLeod. 28/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (945 Pte. D. D. McLeod. 28 Bn. A.I.F.) together with Memorial Plaque (Duncan Dan McLeod) good very fine (4) £400-£500

Duncan Dan McLeod was killed in action at Armentières on 7 June 1916. A family gravestone in Scotland bears an inscription which states that he ‘fell in action during the biggest trench bombing of the Great War 6th June 1916 - from his companion raiders’.

He was born in the Parish of Cawdor, Nairn, Scotland, and enlisted at Perth, Western Australia, for the 28th Battalion Australian Infantry on 3 May 1915, aged 40. He is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-d’Armentières, Nord, France.

Sold with comprehensive file of personnel records from Australian Archives and photographs of his gravestone.