MCDONALD, Angus
| Service Number: | 6450 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Annadale, Mid Murray, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 3 October 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Estrees Communal Cemetery Grave 1. HE LIES IN A HERO'S GRAVE FAR FROM ALL WHO LOVED HIM |
| Memorials: | Leichhardt War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6450, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6450, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6450, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Angus McDonald was the son of John and Christinia MacDonald; husband of Fanny Estella Pearson, Leichhardt, New South Wales. He enlisted as McDonald but the CWGC and Australian War Memorial have his name as MacDonald.
His younger brother, 1120 Private Donald MacDonald 4th Battalion AIF, died of wounds at sea off Gallipoli on 19 May 1915, aged 21.
Angus joined the 20th Battalion in the field during July 1917 and was wounded in the legs and hands on 4 October 1917, during the Battle of Broodseinde in Belgium. He was evacuated to England and didn’t rejoin his Battalion at the front until February 1918. He was killed by a shell burst on 3 October 1918, during the last of the AIF’s fights on the Western Front near Montbrehain.
Angus was buried in the Estrees Communal Cemetery. Estrees is a village, 14 kilometres north of St Quentin. There are only ten identified 1914-18 war casualties commemorated here. All fell in October, 1918, and eight of them are Australian.
Angus MacDonald’s wife, Fanny Estella, gave birth to a son, Donald, during 1917, a son the father never met. She remarried during December 1920 and became Fanny Estella Pearson.