LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Roderick Scott McLEOD
Service No: 404512
Born: Brisbane QLD, 2 July 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 13 September 1940
Unit: No. 34 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Prisoner of War (Illness): Thailand, 24 September 1943, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Scott and Beatrice Mary McLeod, of Inglewood, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Inglewood QLD
Remembered: Panel 126, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Warrant Officer McLeod (Pilot) was transferred from the Middle East to the Far East and was interned as a PoW in Java in March 1942. He died on 24 September 1943 of malaria and dysentery in a Prisoner of War camp at Tarsao, Thailand.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/26/647