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Able Sea. George Dixon McDonald
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Collingwood Battalion
from:111 Commercial Road, South Shields
(d.4th Jun 1915)
My great uncle, Able Seaman George McDonald of the Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, was killed on Friday 4th Jun 1915 in the Third Battle of Krithia on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
He was 22 and an apprentice riveter at J.P. Rennoldson and Sons shipyard, Shadwell Street, South Shields.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli.
He was the eldest son of John and Henrietta McDonald of 111 Commercial Road, South Shields.