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Military service
Service number:
F/33318
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
July 25, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. G. 12.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. MacLeod, of Bras D'Or, Nova Scotia.
Additional citations
Military Medal
Digital gallery of Private William MacLeod
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Photo of William MacLeod
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Photo 2 of William MacLeod
Photo taken in 1943 at CFB Debert, N.S. -
Commemorative Album Cover
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Commemorative Poem
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Press Clipping
From a collection of newspaper clippings (album), donated to the Royal Canadian Legion Bernard Croak VC branch 003 by Shirley (Terrio) Green in memory of her mother Olive (Newell) Terrio. -
Grave marker
Grave marker at Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian Cemetery -
Photo of William MacLeod
William in France. July 1944. -
Photo of WILLIAM MACLEOD
William in front of tank. France, July 1944. -
Grave Marker
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Photo of William MacLeod
Pte. William MacLeod.
Digital gallery of
Private William MacLeod
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 375 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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