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Apr 23, 2021 · It’s just before the Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and 94-year-old Len McLeod is explaining how he used to lie on the floor of a C-47 Dakota, dropping essential supplies to Australian troops in New Guinea during the Second World War.
May 5, 2021 · Len McLeod was 18 years old when joined the US Army Small Ships and witnessed one of the largest naval battles in history. “I said to the captain, ‘Where are we going? Are we going straight into bloody Tokyo or what?’
Jun 29, 2021 · Leonard (Len) Roy Mcleod was born on 2 June 1926, a child of the Great Depression, the youngest of three children. His father, a WWI veteran, died of respiratory problems caused from gas attacks when serving in France, when Len was just five.
Oct 31, 2022 · Len is the last Aussie to receive his 1939–1945 Star for WWII service. Now aged 96, Len still lives in Queensland and is President of the US Army Small Ships Association. Len McLeod. Interviewer Helen McLeod Meyer. Photo: Len McLeod in Shanghai 2019 provided by D West and used with permission. Small Ships Section Battle Honours.
Len McLeod, 96, served in World War II after joining the army at 15. Later in life, he helped pour the metal for the Eternal Flame at the Shrine of Remembrance. Credit: Jason South
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Apr 15, 2019 · Leonard Roy McLeod was born on the second of June, 1926, the youngest child of Ruby and John McLeod, a working class family in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Len was barely 4 years old when his father died from the effects of gassing during WW1 on the Western Front in France.
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Aug 26, 2019 · Len McLeod WW2 Veteran: Return to Shanghai after 74 years! Posted on: Mon 26 Aug 2019. Len was determined to serve during WW2 and lied about his age to get into the Army. He served with the infantry in New Guinea, and on the Dakota Biscuit Bombers but was discharged medically unfit after being wounded. So what did a young chap like Len do?
