ROLL OF HONOUR.
DISTRICT CASUALTIES.
KILLED IN ACTION.
Private Wm. C. Mcdonald. Mr W. McDonald, Syplaw, Heriot, has received telegrams to the effect that his second son, William Charles McDonald, was killed in France on October 10. The deceased was born in Heriot, and was educated at the local school. On leaving school he followed farming on his father's farm, and on two or three of the farms round the district. He enlisted one year and 10 months ago with one or two of his mates, and went with the 9th Reinforcements. On going to France he was engaged in driving the guns. Four months ago he was on short furlough to England. -Clutha Leader, 13/11/1917.
William McDonald was killed in action during a period in the war between the Battle of Passchendaele and the winter of 1917-18. All that I have been able to discover in the Official History of the New Zealand Field Artillery is that it was a period of moving between areas of the line and directing concentrated fire at times on German occupied targets, which in turn attracted counter-battery fire from German artillery.
William McDonald is buried in the Divisional Cemetery at Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium.
Crookston Cemetery.
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