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McDONALD, Charles
(Service number 9/1324)

Aliases	Born & died Charles Brown McDONALD
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	4 December 1893	Place of Birth	Burkes Pass

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Morton Mains
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Thomas McDONALD (father), Morton Mains, Southland
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Special Squadrons
Date	14 August 1915
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns
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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Farmer

Death

Date	20 April 1974	Age	80 years
Place of Death	Lornville
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill
Memorial Reference	Soldiers Avenue, Block 2, Plot 640
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles McDonald, 9/1324, was the son of Thomas and Ann (Annie) Eliza (née McDowell) McDonald.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 June 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [16 June 2017]; Eastern Cemetery Invercargill headstone image (Invercargill City Council) [16 June 2017]

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