Lieutenant Alan McLeod of the Royal Air Force, died on 6th November 1918 from the Spanish Influenza during recuperation. He was 19 years old.

He is commemorated at Winnipeg (Old Kildonan) Presbyterian Cemetery alongside his mother, Maragret Annett McLeod and father, Dr. Alexander Neil McLeod.

Alan was just 18 years old, when he earned the Victoria Cross for his actions in the skies above Albert on March 27, 1918.

The medal citation, published in the 1 May 1918 edition of the London Gazette, gives the following details:
 
"Whilst flying with his observer (Lt. A. W. Hammond, M.C.), he enabled his observer to destroy an enemy triplane. 

"By this time their plane had received five wounds, and whilst continuing the engagement a bullet penetrated his petrol tank and set the machine on fire.

"He then climbed out on to the left bottom plane, controlling his machine from the side of the fuselage, and by side-slipping steeply kept the flames to one side, thus enabling the observer to continue firing until the machine crashed in No Man's Land. 

"McLeod, despite his own wounds, dragged Hammond away from the burning wreckage at great personal risk from heavy machine-gun fire from the enemy's lines.
 
"This very gallant pilot was again wounded by a bomb whilst engaged in this act of rescue, but he persevered until he had placed Lt. Hammond in comparative safety, before falling himself from exhaustion and loss of blood."

Alan returned to Canada to recuperate but succumbed to Spanish Influenza.

On the 9 May 2017, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone and descriptive bronze plaque were placed next to the McLeod family plot.