MCDONALD, Alexander Stuart
| Service Number: | R/15244 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Burrier, New South Wales, Australia, October 1891 |
| Home Town: | Burrier, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | CSR Co employee |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 8 February 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France II. K. 9. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, R/15244, Unspecified British Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Identified as being one of the names on the Nowra War Memorial; Alexander Stuart (sometimes written as Stewart) McDonald was born near Nowra in a small farming community known as Burrier. At the outbreak of the war Alex joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Bn (he was part of the Second Fiji Contingent which sailed for Britain in July 1915).
Alex wrote a number of articles about Fiji during 1910 which were published in the local Nowra newspapers, he signed his July 1910 article - Alex. McDonald. Taviuni, Fiji.
Rifleman McDonald was KIA on 8 Feb 1916 "the first morning that he entered the trenches, on the French front." Beside the CWGC link below, the AWM circ & Comm Roll and NAA file, the only other evidence is his medal card (WO-372-12-208811) available from the UK archives - Courtesy of Karen Standen