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Surname MCDONALD
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) William James Grant
Regimental Number 20178
Rank
Unit Name 2nd Brabant's Horse
State
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Source:# 1034 William James Grant MCDONALD, Boer & Matabele Wars plus WW1.
Source:# 1070 served as William Grant MCDONALD with 2Brab.H and Capetown Highlanders, Afrikaner Corps Second Matabele War 1896-97, migrated to Aust. post Boer War and served in AIF in WW1 with 1Div. Train and Tunneling Coys. as Cpl. William John MCDONALD, received Military Medal in 1918.
URL3: WW1 AIF William John MCDONALD (signature WJ) 352 Driver 1Div. Train AASC discharged 8.10.1915 re-enlisted 10.10.1915 as 640 2Coy. Mining Corps, a cook & pastry cook born in Inverness Scot. aged 38, next of kin wife in Richmond Vic., 5 years Capetown Hdrs., 28th Infantry, 2nd Brabant's Horse and Matabele War, Cpl. 1Tun.Coy. 1.9.1916, gun shot wound to face in action 13.11.1916, 2nd Cpl. 2Tun. Coy. 30.1.1917, awarded Military Medal for bravery in the field CAG 95/18 returned to Aust. 13.7.1918, member of Melbourne Branch S. African Soldiers' Assoc. of Aust. in 1914, died 1921.
URL4: MCDONALD WG 20178 Brabant's Horse, also initials WJ or just J.
URL6: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
Source References
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1034
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1070
External Link URL1aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=196630
External Link URL2aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=196628
External Link URL3recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1844468
External Link URL4www.britishmedals.us/files/126brabant.htm
External Link URL5www.angloboerwar.com/south-african-units/303-brabants-horse?start=2
External Link URL6bwm.org.au/site/William_McDonald.php


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Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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