Pte. Robert Blair MacLeod

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Pte. Robert Blair MacLeod

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wallacetown, Southland, South Island, New Zealand
Death: December 15, 1917 (23)
No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium (World War I: Died of Wounds.)
Place of Burial: [XXVII. DD. 14], Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, 8970, Belgium
Immediate Family:

Son of William Sutherland MacLeod and Johannah Clark MacLeod
Husband of Rubina Violet Pepperell
Father of Mary Emma Revell and Private
Brother of Donald Sutherland MacLeod; Isabella Christina Christiansen; Euphamia Jessie Bourke; Angus McIntosh MacLeod; Donald Sutherland MacLeod and 5 others

Occupation: Telegraphist | Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Find A Grave ID: 12071397
Service No: WWI 39580
Managed by: Jason Scott Wills
Last Updated:

About Pte. Robert Blair MacLeod

Robert Blair MacLeod was born at Wallacetown in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island on 18 October 1894. He was the son of William Sutherland MacLeod and Johannah Clark MacLeod (nee McIntosh) who had married in New Zealand in 1873. In 1915 Robert married Rubina Violet Miscall at Stratford. Their daughter Mary Emma MacLeod was born at Stratford on 3 March 1917. During World War I Robert served with the Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion. He was wounded in Belgium and died of those wounds at the No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station. Robert was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, [XXVII. DD. 14]. Rubina remarried to John Henry Jack Lister in 1919 and then to Clarence Edward Pepperell in 1942. Daughter Mary married Roy Revell in 1940.

Sources

  1. Cenotaph: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/...
  2. New Zealand and World War One Roll of Honour: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~sooty/genealogy/nzefrohMa.html / Ref 11.4.2021
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Pte. Robert Blair MacLeod's Timeline

1894
October 18, 1894
Wallacetown, Southland, South Island, New Zealand

Birth Registration Number: (reg. 1894/15474).
Confirms date as 18/10/1894.
Name: Robert Blair McLeod.

1917
March 3, 1917
Stratford, Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand
December 15, 1917
Age 23
No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium
December 15, 1917
Age 23
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, [XXVII. DD. 14], Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, 8970, Belgium