LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Albert Gordon McLEOD
Service No: 411807
Born: Auckland, New Zealand, 30 May 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 25 May 1941 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 76 Squadron
Died: Air Operations: (No. 76 Squadron Kittyhawk aircraft A29-93), Milne Bay PNG, 11 August 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery PNG
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Roderick and Bertha Catherine McLeod of Burwood, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 104, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 11 August 1942 Kittyhawk A29-93 flown by Flying Officer McLeod was shot down at Milne Bay when attacking 8 to12 Japanese aircraft. On 12 April 1967 the wreck of the aircraft and Flying Officer McLeod’s remains were found in dense rainforest. Parts of the fuselage around the serial number of the aircraft were salvaged and are now on display at the RAAF Museum Point Cook VIC. Also lost in the general action were Flight Sergeant George Frederick Inkster (402292) in Kittyhawk A29-84 and Warrant Officer Francis Pentland Shelley (402408) in Kittyhawk A29-100.
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 a9300, MCLEOD A G