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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 436

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. D. D. McDonald. 39/Chota Nagpur Reft. I.D.F.), impressed naming, nearly extremely fine

Donald David McDonald was born in Calcutta on 16 October 1874, the son of Kenneth and Jane, his father being the Minister and Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland on Wellesley Square. McDonald was married in 1900 but his wife was to die from smallpox just nine years later. He firstly worked at A. Hannah & Co., at Serajgung, on the Brahmaputra River and was latterly Assistant Manager at the Indo-Burma Trading Company at 47 Bentinck Street, Calcutta, being made a Director in 1915. He was awarded his L. S. Medal in the Chota Nagpur Regiment as per IAO 53 of 1922 and died in 1931.

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