John Frederick William MCDONALD

MCDONALD, John Frederick William

Service Number: 1131
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 9th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Arbroath, Scotland, date not yet discovered
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Quarryman
Died: Illness (Typhus), Cairo, Egypt, 21 April 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Gravesite no. 258 , Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Campbelltown WW1 Memorial, Magill Honour Board, Magill War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

26 Aug 1915: Involvement Private, 1131, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Morea embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
26 Aug 1915: Embarked Private, 1131, 9th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Morea, Adelaide
21 Apr 1918: Involvement Trooper, 1131, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1131 awm_unit: 9th Australian Light Horse attached awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1918-04-21

John Frederick William McDonald

JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM McDONALD
John Frederick William McDonald Reg. No 1131, was the son of John McDonald. He was born in Arbroath Scotland in 1879. He was a quarryman by trade. On the 18th of January 1915 he enlisted into the 9th Light Horse Regiment in South Australia. In his mid thirties, he left behind a wife, Florence Myrtle and five children. The five children were, two girls, Alice Myrtle, Florence Ethel Gertrude, and three boys, Hector James, Henry John, and Kenneth George. On the 26th of August 1915, he sailed on HMAT Morea, from Adelaide to Egypt. In Egypt he was transferred to the Military Police H.Q. He was temporary promoted to Corporal. On 28th April 1917 he was admitted to hospital, in Cairo, with appendicitis. He then was detached to rest camp in Port Said, Egypt, and then returned to his unit. On 19th April 1918 he was diagnosed with Typhus and died of that condition on 21st of April 1918. He was buried by the Army Chaplain, at Kantara War Cemetery Egypt, Row D grave 136.



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