In Memory Of

MacDONALD, JOSEPH MACRAE

Service Details
Age:
 36
Date of Birth:
 1881-12-28
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 9th Field Ambulance
Regiment:
 South African Mounted Brigade
Date of Death:
 1918-10-19
Cause of Death:
 Died of pneumonia
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 CAPE TOWN (MARYDALE) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Northern Cape
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Citations:
 ***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file
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.