!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE
MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan
MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 46-47.
Born on 20th March, 1918, was educated at Wellington College and at
the R.M.A., Woolwich. Commissioned in the Royal Artillery in January
1938, he joined the 17 Field Regiment, with which he went to France in
February 1940. He was in action at Thionville and Abbeville and in the
withdrawal to Le Havre, being embarked at Cherbourg on 18th June 1940.
In March 1941, he sailed with the 137 Field Regiment to the Far East,
arriving at Singapore on the 30th November 1941. He was engaged
continuously in actions against the Japanese with the 11th Indian
Division at Jitra on the Thai border, Alorstar, Ipoh, Arik, where he was
wounded, Trolak and Skin River, in which action the Regiment suffered
273 casualties. Together with the regrouped remnants, he saw action
with the 45 Brigade on the Muar River. On the 22nd January 1943 he was
in action at Yong Peng. The troop was withdrawn to Singapore Island on
11th February and was constantly in action until eventually surrounded
by the Japanese. He and two signallers escaped in the dark in a small
boat reaching Dutch territory, where the Dutch commandant held them
till the arrival of the Japanese. He was held as a prisoner of war at
Changi, the Moulmein railway lines and Nong Pladok II. Suffereing from
cholera, malaria and meningitis, he nevertheless attempted to escape to
join the Karens but was prevented from doing so by sickness. He was
finally released in September 1945 and returned to the United Kingdom
after visiting his brother Norman in India in 1946. He married in 1959,
Ann Patricia, daughter of Major and Mrs. J.D. Glegg of Trenarth, Falmouth,
Cornwall, neice of the Dowager Marchioness of Reading. Major Glegg
served in the Dublin Fusileers and the Egyptian Police. John Cheetham
MacLeod and Ann Patricia Glegg have one son, Hamish John MacDonald,
born on 21st October 1960.