MACDONALD, Douglas Kinneir
| Service Number: | 28 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Kensington, England, 14 December 1867 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | W.H. Bruce School, London, Sherborne School, Jesus College, Cambridge University |
| Occupation: | Bank employee |
| Died: | tubercle on the lung, Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 12 February 1901, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Anzac Square Boer War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 28 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 28, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
| 1 Mar 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 28, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, Embarked from Brisbane aboard "Duke of Portland". |
Further Information
He emigrated to Australia in 1890, arriving in Victoria in March 1890 aboard the "Arcadia". He spent some time in Mortlake, Victoria, before heading to Brisbane, Queensland. By early 1900 he was working for the Bank of Australasia when he signed up for the Third Queensland Contingent to fight in South Africa. Sadly, he died in Pretoria on 12 February 1901 of Enteric Fever.
Submitted 7 May 2016 by Timna Green
Douglas Kinneir MacDonald
Trooper Douglas Kinneir Macdonald, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, Colonial Military Forces. Died of enteric fever on 12 February 1901 near Pretoria, South Africa, aged 33.
Born 14 December 1867 at West Kensington, Middlesex.
Eldest son of Douglas John Kinnier Macdonald and Jane MacNeill Macdonald (née MacKay), The Close, Salisbury, formerly of 89 Lexham Gardens, West London.
Attended W.H. Bruce, 56 Perrywere Road, Earls Road, London.
Attended Sherborne School, Price’s House, January 1880-1883.
Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1885; BA 1889.
Went to Australia.
Served in the South African War 1899-1901 with Queensland Mounted Infantry. One of the relieving force which entered Mafeking on 17 May 1900, and afterwards one of Col. Hore’s 300 Colonial troops which defended an immense convoy when surrounded by 3000 Boers under Delaney.
(From Flikr - Rachel Hassall)
Submitted 7 May 2016 by Timna Green
Biography
Born 14 December 1867 at West Kensington, Middlesex. Eldest son of Douglas John Kinnier Macdonald and Jane MacNeill Macdonald (née MacKay), The Close, Salisbury, formerly of 89 Lexham Gardens, West London.
Attended W.H. Bruce, 56 Perrywere Road, Earls Road, London.
Attended Sherborne School, Price’s House, January 1880-1883.
Jesus College, Cambridge University, 1885; BA 1889.
Went to Australia. Served in the South African War 1899-1901 with Queensland Mounted Infantry. One of the relieving force which entered Mafeking on 17 May 1900, and afterwards one of Col. Hore’s 300 Colonial troops which defended an immense convoy when surrounded by 3000 Boers under Delaney.
(Source: Rachel Hassall MArAd, RMARA, School Archivist, Sherborne Schooll, Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset, UK, DT9 3AP).
The son of a successful Solicitor and himself highly educated, Douglas Kinneir MacDonald sought a brighter future in Australia, emigrating in 1890; passenger records with the Public Record Office, Victoria, indicate that he arrived in Victoria in March 1890, aboard the "Arcadia". From a posthumous notice in the paper (concerned with his estate), he had spent some time in Mortlake, Victoria before moving to Brisbane, Queensland and working for the Bank of Australasia. (Source: 1902 'Advertising', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 6 September, p. 3.).
Douglas' death was reported in the newpapers as having been from 'tubercule on the lung'. (Source: AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. (1901, February 23). The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), p. 846. Other sources indicate his death was from Enteric Fever. It is noted that the newspaper article reporting his death from 'tubercule on the lung' also stated that he was in the Fourth Contingent, where in fact he was in the Third Contingent.
As he died without a will in place or "intestate", and he was unmarried, with no known issue and no living parents, any living siblings or their issue if they had passed, would inherit. Probate for the effects of Douglas Kinneir MacDonald was proven on 28 February 1902 in London, and probate was granted to John Ranald MacDonald, electrical engineer and Alexander James Murray, solicitor for effects of £103 14s. It was resworn 1902 £924 19s 8d. Both John and Alexander had been the executors appointed in the will of Douglas' father, Douglas John Kinneir MacDonald, who died in Salisbury on 27 July 1901.
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