James Stephen McDonald

Born 1897 Aberdeen

Private 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (1529)

Promoted Corporal (227485) Transferred Labour Corps 1917 (?) 

Died of Wounds, 1st Eastern General Hospital Cambridge  July 6th 1919 aged 22

Interred Bedford Cemetery

Memorialised:  Roll of Honour All Saints Church Queens Park

 

Survived by:  Dorothy McDonald (nee Roberts, wife)

               Mark McDonald (son, born 1918)

 

James Milne, Bertha Milne (Mother) and James McDonald 1914

Mark (son), "Dolly" (nee Roberts) and James late 1918 early 1919

Letter notifying Dolly of James' death (July 6th 1919)

Identification Bracelet ">"J.MacDonald (sic) 1529 MGS (machine gun section) 4th Gordons"

Memorial Card from James' Funeral

Text of memorial card

Top of scroll sent with bronze memorial plaque ("Death Penny")

 Message from the King, sent with memorial plaque

Bronze Memorial Plaque British War and Victory Medals and Decoration Notification (1921)

1914-15 Star (Reverse) and Decoration Notification letter

Princess Mary Gift Box (Contained Chocolate, greeting card etc) Christmas 1914