Tracker who went to war

Updated April 21 2015 - 9:28am, first published April 20 2015 - 4:53pm
MCDONALD, Pte. Richard — 518f2 Military details: Born 25 April 1883 at Burdekin River, Northern Queensland. Joined march at Kiama. Enlisted at Liverpool 20 December 1915. Unit: 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. Embarked Makarini 1 April 1916. Served in France. Wounded 20-25 July 1916; DIED OF WOUNDS 24 July 1916, Pozieres, aged 33 years. Cemetery Register No.: France 44. Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension. Church of England; labourer at State Quarries, Kiama; single; C/- P.O. Kiama. Next of kin: Friend, Miss A. May Morrow, Dapto. Height: 5-ft. 9½-in. Weight: 163-lbs. Chest: 36/39½-in. Complexion: dark. Eyes: brown. Hair: black.
MCDONALD, Pte. Richard — 518f2 Military details: Born 25 April 1883 at Burdekin River, Northern Queensland. Joined march at Kiama. Enlisted at Liverpool 20 December 1915. Unit: 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. Embarked Makarini 1 April 1916. Served in France. Wounded 20-25 July 1916; DIED OF WOUNDS 24 July 1916, Pozieres, aged 33 years. Cemetery Register No.: France 44. Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension. Church of England; labourer at State Quarries, Kiama; single; C/- P.O. Kiama. Next of kin: Friend, Miss A. May Morrow, Dapto. Height: 5-ft. 9½-in. Weight: 163-lbs. Chest: 36/39½-in. Complexion: dark. Eyes: brown. Hair: black.

PERHAPS the only Aborigine among the Waratahs, Richard "Dick" McDonald was born at the Burdeklin River in North Queensland, but by the time he was a young man, he had arrived in NSW.

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