VOLUNTEER FROM
COLONIA COSME, PARAGUAY

PRIVATE DAVID JOHN MACLEOD

ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

27TH AUGUST 1917 AGE 29

BURIED: COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


David Macleod's father, Allan Mann Macleod, was a rancher in Colonia Cosme, Paraguay. Born in Australia did he go with the socialist settlers who were determined to build a Utopian settlement there in 1893, or did he go later when the scheme had collapsed? David was born in Australia but educated in Colonia Cosme so it's possible that his parents were among the original settlers. If so, they had a very difficult time of it.
David Macleod was also a rancher in both Paraguay and Chile. He volunteered immediately on the outbreak of war and returned to Europe to fight, serving throughout the war until he was killed in August 1917.