Service Details
Name:
 MacDONALD
Given Name:
 JOSEPH MACRAE
Initials:
 J M
Trade:
 Surgeon
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Mounted Brigade
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Unit:
 9th Field Ambulance
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Date of Death:
 1918-10-19
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Date of Birth:
 1881-12-28
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Died of pneumonia
Citations:
 ***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file
Additional
Information:
Son of John Macdonald, a wine merchant. Born Resolis, Ross-shire. Entered the University in 1900 ; graduated M.B., 1906 ; went to South Africa where he held various medical appointments under Government, in German South West Africa, Bechuanaland, and Cape Province, and later took up a large practice in Marydale, Cape Colony. Early in the war Macdonald joined the Forces and served in West and East Africa for about three years with the rank of Surgeon-Captain ; in 1915 he was appointed Senior Medical Officer by General Smuts. For health reasons he had to retire from the Army, and he resumed his practice, but the rigours of the campaign had undermined his previously robust constitution and he died, 19 October 1918.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Northern Cape
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Cemetery:
 CAPE TOWN (MARYDALE) CEMETERY
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