Wartime romance leads to bigamy
On 8 October 1945, Kenneth Bard McLeod of the Royal Australian Navy plead guilty to bigamy at the Brisbane Supreme Court. The 44-year-old had lived with his wife of seventeen years until war broke out in 1939. They had three sons aged 17, 10 and 8. In 1940 he met Marjorie Jean McPherson in Sydney. In 1943 he went through a marriage ceremony with her without telling her that he was already married. MacLeod was given a suspended sentence of 12 months hard labour.
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