MCDONALD, Norman
| Service Number: | 1423 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 November 1914, Geelong, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Talbot, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | TB and complications from wounds, Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 24 November 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Clunes Public Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Geelong, Vic. | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 2 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW to right lung, right thigh and left tibia sustained during the attack on Bloody Angle. Evacuated to UK, then Aust. | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1423, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), RTA 8 October 1915 and discharged as MU. Died of complications from wounds 24 November 1917. |
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Died at Clunes, Vic (post discharge) from TB and complications from chest wound received at Gallipoli.
Brother: 1896 Pte Peter McDONALD, 45th Bn, died of disease, 2 February 1919.
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Norman McDonald, aged almost 27, enlisted in the AIF at Geelong on 17 November 1914, and embarked overseas on 22 December 1914.
After four months training in the Egyptian desert, he and his battalion landed at Gallipoli in the late afternoon of 25 April 1915.
A week later, on 2 May 1915, the battalion attacked the Turkish positions at a place called “Bloody Angle”. They suffered many casualties, one of whom was Pte McDonald who sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his right lung, right thigh and left tibia.
He was evacuated to England where he was hospitalised for some time, initially in Manchester and then in Middlesex. He never fully recovered from his wounds and embarked on a hospital ship for Australia on 8 October 1915
He arrived back in Melbourne on 25 November 1915, where he was medically discharged from the AIF on 25 July 1916.
As a result of his earlier chest wound, Norman McDonald later contracted tuberculosis and died in Clunes on 24 November 1917.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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