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25 May 2022

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№ 70

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£1,100

Five: Sergeant D. J. MacDonald, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, later 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who served with Colonel L. C. Dunsterville’s ‘Dunsterforce’ in Mesopotamia, and died of disease on 5 December 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1817 Pte. D. Mc.Donald. 1st. Cam’n: Highrs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1817 Pte. D. Mc.Donald. Cameron Highrs:); 1914-15 Star (435026 Pte. D. J. MacDonald. 10/Can: Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (435026 A. Sjt. D. J. Mac Donald. 10-Can. Inf.) very fine and better (5) £400-£500

Donald John MacDonald was born in Inverness, Scotland, on 20 December 1879 and served with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in South Africa during the Boer War. Subsequently emigrating to Canada, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at at Calgary, Alberta, on 6 March 1915, and served with the 10th Battalion (Alberta Regiment) during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 August 1915.

Transferring to England for Special Duties on 10 January 1918, MacDonald joined Colonel L. C. Dunsterville’s Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, known as ‘Dunsterforce’, and embarked for Mesopotamia, landing at Basrah on 28 March 1918. He served with the famous ‘Dunsterforce’ in the Caucasus throughout 1918, and died of smallpox at Colaba Hospital, Bombay, on 5 December 1918. He is commemorated on the Kirkee Memorial, India.

Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.