John MacDonald

Forenames

John AWMM

Surname

MacDonald AWMM

Also known as

Manihera MacDONALD

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Service number

WWI 7/228 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

28 Jul 1891 AWMM

Place of birth

Spring Creek, Wairau, Picton

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Birth notes

Son of Hohua MacDonald & Sarah Te Mete Smith

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Address before enlistment

Spring Creek, Wairau

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Next of kin

Peter MacDONALD of Endeavour Inlet, via Picton

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Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/228 AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Trooper AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Son of Peter H. and Sarah MacDonald, of Endeavour Inlet, Picton, Marlborough. Native of Spring Creek, Marlborough AWMM

Death

7 Jul 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery name

Buried at sea

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Obituary

• DIED OF WOUNDS. (July 7.) Canterbury Mounted Regiment. Trooper John MacDonald, gunshot wounds in abdomen (Peter MacDonald, Wairau Pah, Marlborough, father)
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  TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME LXIII, ISSUE 144737, 21 JULY 1915, PAGE 3
• In early July the Canterbury Mounted Rifles took over the trenches at Russell's Top. 20 year old Jack (Jack) Manihera MacDONALD of Rangitane ki Wairau, was hit in the Abdomen & evactuated. He died of his wounds on the hospital ship 'Gason' on 7 July 1915 and was buried at sea
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Memorial name

• Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM
• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Archives New Zealand.
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10921570
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/720283/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/720283
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.