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Hector McDONALD

Regimental number3199
Place of birthHotspur, Victoria
SchoolHotspur State School
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationRailway fireman
AddressLongfern, Hotspur, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Next of kinFather, John McDonald, Longfern, Hotspur, Victoria
Enlistment date23 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name60th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/77/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 16 December 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll38th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 13 October 1917
Place of death or woundingPasschendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death26
Age at death from cemetery records26
Place of burialTyne Cot Cemetery (Plot XXXV, Row J, Grave No. 3), Passchendaele, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
130
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated on Memorial Plantation Hotspur Avenue of Avenue, Victoria. Parents: John and Isabella MCDONALD, Lonfern North, Hamilton, Victoria. Native of Hotspur, Victoria
Family/military connectionsCousins: 1798 Sergeant Duncan McLennan McKINNON MM & Bar, 24th Bn, returned to Australia, 19 February 1919; 7048 Sergeant Andrew Lamond McDONALD MM, Australian Army Pay Corps, returned to Australia, 1 November 1919.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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