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Captain WILLIAM JAMES McDONALD

Service Number: NGX344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

H. A. 1.

Papua New Guinea

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Edith McDonald; husband of Gladys Purdie McDonald, of Ashgrove, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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