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as present at the Battles of
the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action while leading his
Coy. in an attack on a farm held by tin-Germans, 2 Nov. 1914. Capt.
McLeod was distinguished in musketry, and had the Special Certificate
of signalling granted to him at Pretoria in June, 1904. His Coy.
were winners of the Douglas Shield (a Regimental trophy) in 1912. His
recreations were hunting, polo and shooting. He _m._ at the Chapel
Royal, Savoy, 18 June, 1914, Marie Jeanette Amelia, yst. dau. of Lord
Henry Fitzwarrine Chichester, and gdson. of Edward, 4th Marquis of
Donegall; _s.p._

 [Illustration: =Archibald A. McLeod.=]

=MACLEOD, DAVID FERGUSON=, L.-Corpl. No. 270, 1st Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late David Ferguson
Macleod, of 29, Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh, and of the General
Post Office, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Henry John Gibson,
Aberdeenshire; _b._ Edinburgh, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. George
Heriot's School; went to Australia, Oct. 1913, and settled at Sydney,
New South Wales; was a Secretary; joined the Australian Imperial Force
on the outbreak of the European War; took part in the landing at the
Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Devanha, 10
Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action after Lone Pine, 9 Aug. 1915;
_unm._ He was buried at sea 10 miles south-east of Mudros Harbour,
Lemnos Island.

=MACLEOD, IAN BREAC=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch, only
_s._ of the Rev. Roderick Charles Macleod, Vicar of Mitford,
Morpeth, by his wife, Katharine Louisa, dau. of the Rev. William
Edward Jelf, of Caerdeon, Dolgelly, and gdson. of Norman Macleod of
Macleod, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, J.P., D.L., 22nd chief of
his clan; _b._ Bolney, co. Sussex, 4 Sept. 1893; educ. Harrow,
and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
Black Watch, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914; joined
the 2nd Battn. in India, Nov. 1912, with it went to France in Oct.
1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Neuve Chapelle, 17
April, 1915; _unm._ Buried in the cemetery at Veille Chapelle.
Col. Harvey wrote: "Your son was a most excellent young officer, and
since the Battn. has been in France he has done most sterling work,
especially when his Coy. Commander was wounded before Christmas--a time
which tried all ranks very highly. Your son was killed while he was
carrying out his duties in the trenches, and I understand died without
pain." And Major Wauchope: "Believe me that for all great and important
qualities such as truthfulness, courage, kindliness, a most ready
sympathy (most rare in one so young), consistent unselfishness--in all
these he was, I believe, superior to most.... I have seen no one more
cool and collected in hours of great danger.... As his Capt., and I do
indeed trust as his friend, I can say there are few indeed I know who
have qualities that are so 'becoming to an officer and a gentleman.'
You can guess how all the men loved 'Mr. I. B.' All who knew him,
officers and men, mourn his loss. I do not think he ever had an unkind
thought for anyone, but it is only since the war began I understood his
value as an officer."

 [Illustration: =Ian Breac Macleod.=]

=McLEOD, DUNCAN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9671), S.S. 201449,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct 1914.

=MACLEOD, TORQUIL HARRY LIONEL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Goliath,
2nd _s._ of Roderick Willoughby Macleod, of Invergordon Castle
and Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and 10, Ovington Gardens, London, formerly
Capt., Cameron Highlanders (who served in the Egyptian Campaign of
1882), by his wife, Alice Olivia, 2nd dau. of Edward Tierney Gilchrist
Darell; _b._ Invergordon Castle, aforesaid, 11 Sept. 1899:
educ. Hillbrow, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne
and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Goliath as a Naval Cadet, 1 Aug. 1914,
and was drowned when that battleship was sunk by a torpedo from a
Turkish destroyer in the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. His Commander, H.
Peel-Ritchie, V.C., wrote of him: "All the time he was my A.D.C. I had
every reason to be more than pleased with his keenness and zeal and the
cheery way he did everything. He was a great favourite with officers
and men, and I feel sure that, as he had made such a very good start,
he would very quickly have made his mark in the Service."

 [Illustration: =Torquil H. L. Macleod.=]

=McLOUGHLIN, FRANCIS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3640, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMILLAN, ALEXANDER=, Driver, No. 5/692 A., New Zealand Army
Service Corps, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of
the late Archibald McMillan, Farmer, by his wife (--), dau. of Andrew
Gilmour, of Waipawa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Engineer and Surveyor;
_b._ Kumeroa, 26 Feb. 1888; educ. Waipawa District High School;
enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, left for Egypt with the
Main Expeditionary Force, and died of enteric fever, 3 Nov. 1915,
in the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria, and was buried there;
_unm._ He was a most prominent cricketer and Rugby football
player, and prior to his departure from New Zealand represented the
New Zealand Expeditionary Force in a football match against the
Christchurch Rugby Team.

=McMILLAN, JAMES=, Blacksmith (Pensioner), 163582, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McMULLEN, THOMAS=. Sergt., No. 7360, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, yst. _s._ of the late William McMullen, of 40, Bell
Street, Sunderland, Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard
Copping; _b._ Sunderland, 8 May, 1889; educ. St. Joseph's there
and Albert Road School, Darlington; was a Shipyard Labourer; enlisted,
28 July, 1908, and reached the rank of Sergt. after about five years'
service; went to France with his battn. in Aug. 1914; took part in the
Battle of Mons and the other engagements in which the 2nd Coldstreams
so greatly distinguished themselves, and was mentioned in Field-Marshal
Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22
June], 1915, for gallant conduct in the field. He was killed in action
at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915, in the same affair in which L.-Corpl. Michael
O'Leary, 7th Irish Guards, won the V.C. Buried at Cuinchy; _unm._
Immediately the news of his death was received, one of his brothers,
John McMullen, a married man with three children, enlisted in the Royal
Engineers, in order that the family might still be represented in the
Army, but was invalided out after six months' service.

 [Illustration: =Thomas McMullen.=]

=McMURRAN, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7687), S.S.
103004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McNALLY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9696), S.S.
107103, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McNAMARA, JAMES=, A.B., 196451 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when
that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=McNEALE, FRANK HANSFORD=, 

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