Roderick William McLeod

Lieutenant-General Sir Roderick William McLeod, (15 January 1905 – 6 December 1980) was a British Army officer 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 on 28 January 1925. He saw service during the Khajuri Plains operations on the North West Frontier of India between 1930 and 1932. He became Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1960. this led to the formation of the Royal Corps of Transport in 1965. He retired in 1965.

Family In 1933 McLeod married Camilla Rachel Hunter Fell, who died in 1942. Then in 1946 he married Mary Vavasour Lloyd Thomas MBE, daughter of Dr Henry Lloyd Driver and his wife Amy Vavasour Berridge. She was the widow of Captain Henry Cecil Augustus Heyman, who died at Aldershot in 1935, and of Major Robert Jocelyn Henry Thomas MVO, killed in action at Tobruk in 1941. She was born in 1909 and died in 2000 in Surrey.