Angus MCDONALD

MCDONALD, Angus

Service Number: 4297
Enlisted: 30 August 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Army Ordnance Corps AIF
Born: Scotland, date not yet discovered
Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Killed In Action, France, 2 May 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Camon Communal Cemetery
Grave 6 Headstone Inscription "ASLEEP IN JESUS HIS LIFE WAS GENTLE HIS END WAS PEACE"
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World War 1 Service

30 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4297, 15th Infantry Battalion
3 Jan 1916: Involvement Private, 4297, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
3 Jan 1916: Embarked Private, 4297, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane
23 Feb 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Army Ordnance Corps AIF

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Robert and E. V. C. MacDONALD, of 166 Duke Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland. Native of Queensland.

Details of Death
On the 2nd May 1918 he and five others were sleeping in a schoolroom six miles behind the lines; when a long distance enemy shell penetrated their billet and killed them all. They were buried in a beautiful old French cemetery which is, and always will be, a recognised French civilian cemetery, at Camon, in the Somme Valley, about three miles east of the Amiens Cathedral.

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