31. Plaque for Ruby Margaret Macleod

Photo: H. Murray

In Fondest Rembrance

Ruby Margaret Macleod

Beloved wife of Major Thomas Macleod OBE.

Died 4^th April 1923

Ruby Margaret Shannon Macleod

1883 – 1923

Ruby was born on 11 March 1883, youngest of the four girls among 11 children of John Shannon and Margaret Young in East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. Ruby was educated at Rockhampton Girls Grammar School in the early 1920’s. She was a composer. She composed waltz’s e.g., The Normanby Waltz written for the Normanby Picnic Races at Saltbush and The Midnight Waltz. She was also interested in woodcarving and carved the pulpit in St Luke’s Church of England, Toowoomba given by the family in memory of their mother who died in 1916.

Letter from Mr Thomas Macleod with regard to obtaining his ‘wings’ under the Royal Flying Corps in England, The Brisbane Courier, 19 June 1916.

The article in the Courier Mail regarding the construction of the aeroplane ‘The Courier’ in the Sabbath School Hall, The Brisbane Courier, 31 July 1919.

For a biography of Mr Thomas Macleod please access this link to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Betrothal notice for Major Thomas Macleod and Lady Aurea Fredeswyde Wace, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Queensland Figaro, 14 July 1928.

Major Macleod Marries Lady Aurea Wace, The Brisbane Courier, 4 June 1928.