Charles Macdonald

Forenames

Charles AWMM

Surname

Macdonald AWMM

Service number

WWI 29275 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

b. 18th June 1895

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Place of birth

Blenheim

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Birth notes

Son of Hohua (Peter) & Sarah Te Mete MacDONALD

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Post war occupation

Spring Creek, Blenheim

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Next of kin

Mrs Sarah Macdonald (mother), Spring Creek, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 29275 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 11 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 67 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 18th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Charles Macdonald was the son of Peter and Sarah Macdonald of Endeavour Inlet, Picton, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

12 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM IV. E. 9. AWMM

Obituary

• Charles (Whakaaure) MacDONALD enlisted in June 1916 & reached 3 Battalion Canterbury Infantry Regiment in France a year later. After just a fortnight with the battalion he was killed in action on 12 June 1917
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• KILLED IN ACTION - MACDONALD, CHAS. (Mrs Sarah Macdonald, Endeavor Inlet via Picton, mother
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 6 April 2024 - NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES
  EVENING STAR, ISSUE 16462, 28 JUNE 1917, PAGE 5

Memorial name

• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10921511
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/165345/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/165345
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  43: 10
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 67. Long Trail. (1916). On board ship:Published by the Right Wing of the 18th Reinforcements.