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Rflmn. John McDonald
British Army 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Limehouse, London
(d.21st April 1917)
My great uncle, Rifleman John McDonald of the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, was a regular soldier who enlisted age 20 in 1911. He went to France in 1914 with the rest of the battalion and was killed in 1917.
My grandfather, his younger brother (who was in the RAF in WW2), never spoke of him although I believe my middle name is after him. He was probably one of the few old contemptibles to survive that long. I have found his grave site in France and will be visiting it this year,
Pte. John McDonald
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Kingstown
(d.3rd June 1915)
Private McDonald was the Son of Timothy McDonald, of 5, Crofton Parade, Kingstown.
He was 27 when he died and is buried in the South-West part, Just West of ruin, in the Kill of the Grange Old graveyard, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Pte. John Mcdonald
British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Thorncliffe Street, Liverpool
Private John Mcdonald was my Grandfather. He served with the Kings Liverpool Regiment and 70th Coy. Labour Corps. He became unfit for service after being wounded.
Pte. Joseph McDonald
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Matthew McDonald
British Army 26th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
(d.1st July 1916)
Matthew McDonald served with the 26th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers. hH was aged 34 when he died on 1st July 1916. Born in Jarrow, he was the son of Thomas and Margaret McDonald. On the 1911 census, Matthew McDonald age 29 General Labourer in Tyneside Rivet Works is listed as living with his parents Thomas and Margaret McDonald and family at 117 Windsor Avenue, Gateshead. He enlisted in Newcastle.
Matthew is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Neil McDonald
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Oban, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
(d.9th April 1918)
Neil McDonald served with the 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders in WW1. He died 9th of April 1918 and is remembered on the Loos Memorial in France.
Pte. Patrick McDonald
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.9th May 1915)
Patrick McDonald of the 1st Battalion Royal Scots was lost in fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke. Patrick is remembered in Ypres on the Menin Gate memorial.
Patrick McDonald
British Army 13th Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:6 Standards Row, Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland
(d.27th Sep 1915)
Only remember being told my great uncle Patrick McDonald died during World War 1 and that his mother received the death war medallion which has been passed down in the family. I read about the Battle of Loos and have found information that he was in the battle which began on 25th September and was killed in action on 17th of September 1915. I have no information on where he was buried, possibly in communal grave?
Roderick McDonald
British Army 23rd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Simon McDonald
British Army 23rd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. T. McDonald
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wheatley Hill
T Macdonald came 1st in the three legged race at Alnwick sports in 1915. He was wounded in August 1916
Sgt. Thomas Andrew McDonald
British Army 2nd Battalion Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Aldershot
(d.23rd April 1917)
Pte. Thomas Murray McDonald
British Army 69th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Edinburgh
(d.13th Oct 1917)
My Great Great Uncle, Thomas McDonald of the RAMC was killed in action at the 1st Battle of Passchendaele on the 13th of October 1917.
Pte Walter McDonald
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.29th Mar 1918)
McDonald, Walter. Private, 59194. Killed in action on 29th March 1918.
Buried in Serre Road Cemetery No.2, Serre-les-Puisieux, Somme, in grave VIII. G. 8.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Cpl. William Campbell McDonald
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.21st Feb 1915)
Gnr. William McDonald
Royal Field Artillery 368th Battery
(d.16th Apr 1915)
Pte. F. McDonnel
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Sgt. Johnathan McDonnel
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Hebburn
Jonathan McDonnel was wounded in August 1916
Pvt. John Mcdonnell
US Army 109th Infantry Regiment
from:Baltimore, Co. Mayo, Eire
(d.7th Sep 1918)
Rifleman John McDonnell MID
British Army Connaught Rangers
from:County Mayo and Leeds
Gnr. L. McDonnell
British Army 73rd Coy. Royal Garrison Artillery
Gunner McDonnell was the Son of Mrs. A. McDonnell. He died the 5th January 1920 and is buried in the south west corner of the Grangegeeth Old Graveyard, Grangegeeth, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Pte. Myles McDonnell
British Army 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Altricham, Lancashire
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
Myles McDonnell was born in 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the eldest son of Peter and Catherine McDonnell. In the 1901 Irish Census, when he was 18, he was recorded as living with his parents at 38a Francis Street in Merchants Quay District, Dublin along with his sisters Mary (21), Christina (6), and brothers Andrew (13) and Daniel (9). He married Margaret Oā€™Brien on 4th January 1902 at St. Johns Church, Clontarf, Dublin. Their daughter Jane was born in 1903 in Dublin. Between 1905 and 1911, he and his family immigrated to England and settled in Bootle, Liverpool. In the 1911 census in England he can be found living with his family in 67 Boreland Street (off Marsh Lane), Bootle. He was employed as a dock labourer after working as a pavour in Dublin. 3 more children followed his arrival from Dublin, Peter born in 1912, Kate born in 1914, and Margaret born in 1917.
During the war, Myles moved to 17 Police Street Altrincham, Cheshire, working in the Ammonia and Soda works at Lostock Gralam, Northwich, Cheshire. The company produced salt, ammonia soda, sulphuric acid, and ammonia nitrate for the Ministry. This meant he was a protected worker and had an exemption certificate, Number 4207. However, in January or February of 1918 he left the Soda works and took up employment with Manchester Council Waterworks as a boiler attendant (fireman). Subsequently, this meant that his exemption certificate was withdrawn, and he was conscripted into the army at Chester on 29th of April 1918, joining the 14th South Lancashire Regiment.
On the 11th June 1918, he was transferred to 3rd South Lancashire Regiment, retaining his regimental number. On the 1st October, he was posted to France. After arrival in France, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment with a new regimental number of 68233.
In the early hours of 23rd of October 1918, he was killed in action during the Battle of the Selle, when his company was tasked with the objective of taking the German held village of Beaurain, just north of Le Cateau. He is buried in Amerval Communal Cemetery Extension, Solesmes, France.
Andrew McDonough
Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Wigan
(d.13th August 1915)
Andrew McDonough (my Great Grandad) died at sea, 13th August 1915. He was one of just 27 casualties from the Lancashire Fusiliers on board the Merchant ship SS Royal Edward. German UB-14 had just left the port of Bodrum Turkey, spotted the Royal Edward and torpedoed it. It went down in 6 minutes not far from the island of Kos with the loss of around 1000 lives.
Pte. James McDonough
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
James McDonough was discharged in 1917 Sick
2Eng. Harold John McDougal
Merchant Navy
from:Liverpool
My grandfather, Harold McDougal, was 2nd Engineer on the HMHS Valdivia when she sailed to The Dardanelles to help rescue servicemen stranded on the beaches after the disastrous Dardanelles campaign. I have a photograph of him sitting on the deck of the ship with another sailor.
Dvr. John McDougall
British Army 57th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.1st Mar 1918)
John McDougall served with 57th Field Coy. Royal Engineers. He was aged 26 when he died on 1st March 1918. He was born, lived and enlisted Jarrow, the Son of Archibald McDougall and brother of Archibald McDougall of 13 Bell Street East Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as John McDougall age 19 Labourer in Shipyard is with his father Archibald McDougall and stepmother Rose Ann McDougall and family at 205 High Street, Jarrow.
John is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
Pte. John Robert McDougall
Canadian Army 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company
from:Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
John McDougall was born on 2 April 1883 at Westville, Nova Scotia, son of Roderick and Katherine McDougall. The family moved to New Aberdeen, where Roderick, John and a brother were coal miners. John was working in a mine at Glace Bay when he enlisted in the 246th Battalion at Aldershot on 29th of August 1916. Upon arrival in England in June 1917, he was transferred into the 185th Battalion. When it was also broken up he was transferred into the 17th Reserve Battalion, then into No 3 Tunnelling Company on 25th of April 1918. He then went to France and served until being hospitalized at Boulogne with a hernia on 6 October 1918. He was sent back to England and returned home in March 1919.
Pte. Joseph McDougall
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Mini, Newcastle, New South Wales
(d.7th Jul 1917)
L/Cpl. Malcolm Colville McDougall
British Army 7th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Greenock, Renfrewshire
(d.18th Aug 1916)
Lance Corporal Malcolm Colville McDougall was brother to my great grandmother Mary McDougall. He was killed on the 18th of August 1916, aged 25 whilst serving with the 7th Btn Northamptonshire Regiment. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and was the son of the late William McDougall & Margaret McTaggart of Greenock.
L/Cpl. Michael McDougall
British Army 2nd Battalion, C Coy. Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.9th Aug 1915)
Michael McDougall served as a Lance Corporal with 2nd Battalion, "C" Coy. Durham Light Infantry. He was aged 32 when he died on 9th August 1915. He was born and enlisted Jarrow. He was the son of Jessie and the late Michael McDougall of Jarrow and the husband of Gertrude May McDougall (nee Catchpole) of 79 Queen's Road Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Michael McDougall age 28 Rivetters Holder On at Shipyard is with his wife Gertrude May McDougall and daughter at 90 High Street, Jarrow. His mother Jessie McDougall and family are at 48 Stead Street, Jarrow in 1911.
Michael is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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