Gordon Stanley John MCDONALD
Born 9 June 1912 in Tambellup, Western Australia [15] [16]
Son of John Alexander MCDONALD and Ethel May MCARTHUR [15]
Farmhand in Tambellup in 1936 and 1937 [50]
Married Hilda Grace FORSYTH in Narrogin in 1940 [15]
Resided in Tambellup until enlisting in the Australian Army at Claremont on 11 December 1940 [16]
Lance Corporal WX9911 in the 7th Reinforcements to the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 14 January 1946 [16]
Farmer of Woodyche Farm in Margaret River in 1949 [50]
In January 1951 he was allotted Lot A705E on the War Service Land Settlement's Waddi Estate [39: 4-Jan-1951]
Waddi Estate was the former farm of Gus LIEBE located across parts of Carnamah, Bunjil, Coorow, Waddy Forest and Winchester [P1]
Farmer of Sunnyfields Farm in Bunjil from 1951 until at least 1968 [39: 4-Jan-1951] [50] [543: 24-Jan-1952]
Member of Carnamah’s branch of the Returned Soldiers League in 1954 [7: page 193]
Chairman of the Carnamah Boy Scouts in 1954 [12: 30-Sep-1954]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1958 [13]
By 1972 he was living at 426 Flinders Street in the Perth suburb of Nollamarra, and resided there until at least 1980 [50]
Later resided in North Perth [2]
Died 19 June 1991; memorialised at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (Garden of Remembrance, MC Section, Garden 1, 72) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Gordon Stanley John McDonald' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 2 July 2025 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/gordon-stanley-john-mcdonald [reference list] |
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