Word has been received of the death in England on the 5th instant, from wounds inflicted on 7th August at Gallipoli, of Sergeant Gordon Macdonald, of the Canterbury Divisional Headquarters. Deceased was a brother of Mr. J. W. Macdonald, solicitor to the Public Trust Office, and was twenty-three years of age. He was a law clerk, and had lived all his life in Timaru. -Evening Post, 11/1/1916.
Gordon MacDonald was admitted to a Malta hospital with a septic wound in a knee caused by shrapnel. In September 1915 he arrived at a hospital in Devonport, England. He was there for nearly three months before he died.
Timaru Cemetery.
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