Gen. Sir Roderick William MACLEOD , GBE, KCB

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SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 194. www.macleodgenealogy.org/ACMS/D0051/I6650.html

Roderick (William), born o 15th January 1905 and educated at Wellington College and R.M.A. Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1925. He was present at operations N.W. Frontier India 1931-45. Director of Military Defence College 1947. Assistant Commandant Staff College 1948-49. Commander Royal Artillery 7th Armoured Division 1950. Director of Military Operations War Office 1951-54. G.O.C. 6th Armoured Division 1955-56. Chief Army Instructor Imperial Defence College 1957. Deputy Chief of Defence Staff 1957-60. Commander British Forces Hong Kong 1960-61. General 1961. G.O.C.-in-C. Eastern Command 1962-65. A.D.C. (Gen.) to the Queen 1963-65. D.L.Surrey 1967. G.B.E. 1964. K.C.B. 1958. Commander Order of Leopold II 1946. Chevalier Legion of Honour 1945. Croix de Guerre avec Palme 1945. He married (1) 1933, Camilla Rachel Hunter (died 1942), daughter of Sir Godfrey Fell, K.C.I.E., C.S.P., O.B.E., with issue. He married (2) in 1946, Mary Vavasour Lloyd Thomas, M.B.E. (nee Driver), widow of Major R.J.H. Thomas, M.V.O., R.H.A.

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Lieutenant General Sir Roderick William McLeod GBE KCB (1905'961980) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1950s.
Military career

Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich McLeod was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1925.[1]

He saw service during the Khajuri Plains operations on the North West Frontier of India between 1930 and 1932.[1]

He served in World War II and was Commanding Officer 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Royal Artillery in North Africa and Sicily in 1943 moving on to be Deputy Commander 1st Parachute Brigade later that year.[1] He was then made the first Commander of the Special Air Service Brigade from 1944 to 1945.[1]

After the War he became Director of Military Operations in India between 1945 and 1947.[1] He was appointed Assistant Commandant at the Staff College in 1948 and then Commander Royal Artillery for 7th Armoured Division, which was then part of British Army of the Rhine in 1950.[1] He went on to be Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1951 and then General Officer Commanding 6th Armoured Division in 1955.[1] He was made Chief Army Instructor at the Imperial Defence College in 1957 and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence later that year.[2] He became Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1960.[1]

He was also General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Eastern Command from 1962;[1] during his time at Eastern Command he chaired the McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics Committee which recommended re-organisation of the Logistic Services of the British Army:[3] this led to the formation of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965.[4] He retired in 1965.[1]

He lived at Woking in Surrey and from 1966 to his death was Chairman of the Hockering Residents' Association.[5]

Roderick married Camilla Rachel Hunter FELL, daughter of Sir Godfrey Butler Hunter FELL , KCIE, CSP, OBE and Janet Camilla MACLEOD, in Jul 1933 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England.¹ (Camilla Rachel Hunter FELL was born on 1 Jun 1907, christened on 14 Aug 1907 in Simla, Bengal, India ³ and died in 1942.)

Roderick next married Mary Vavasour (Molly) LLOYD DRIVER MBE, daughter of Dr. Henry LLOYD DRIVER and Amy Vavasour BERRIDGE, about 10 May 1946.² (Mary Vavasour (Molly) LLOYD DRIVER MBE was born between Jul and Aug 1909 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England ⁴.)