The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-06-06
Gallant Young Officer, In
Heppner During Liberty
Loan Drive, Is Dead

Word has been received in Hepp-
ner of the death of Lieutenant Alex
ander G. Macdonald. Macdonald
will be remembered here as one of
the speakers during the last Liberty
Loan drive. He spoke at both Pine
City and Rhea creek school houses
and would have appeared in more
meetings had his schedule permitted
it, He was young man of forceful
personal attractiveness and while
speaking, his earnestness Was a re-
markable trait. He did Z great work
in Oregon to help put over the big
drive in record breaking time.
Macdonald was an only son. He
was a lieutenant in the 102nd North
British Columbians and formerly or
the 10th Battalion, Canadian Scot
tish.
Desiring to return to the front
Lieutenant Macdonald entered mil
itary hospital at Vancouver for mi
nor operation to his left knee. lnfec
ton, however, set in, and despite a
fight Tor life the young officer sue
cumbed after three weeks.
The Vancouver World pays the fol-
lowing tribute to Lieutenant Mac
Donald
"Twice seriously wounded, but
spared to come back to his home and
family, and with every hope of re-
covering and returning to the front
a third time, Lieutenant Alexander
G. Macdonald, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Macdonald of this city,
passed away at an early hour this
morning, after plucky fight against
pneumonia, which had developed as
a consequence of infection following
an operation on his knee. A bright,
gallant youth, and an only son, his
loss is sincerely mourned by his COM
rades, and the deepest sympathy is
extended by a wide circle of friends
to his parents and sisters, so badly
Unexpectedly bereaved.
Lieutenant Macdonald was edu-
Gated at Upper Canada college and
Toronto university, and when the
war broke out he was engaged in sur
veying for his final examination in
the profession for which he was pre-
pairing. Throwing everything up, he
enlisted, an original first in that
glorious battalion which was to cover
itself with glory, the Sixteenth, and
with it fought in the series OF battles
that stemmed the German rush to Ca
lais. He was seriously wounded at
Festubert, May, 1915, but after sew
eral months in the hospital recovered
and was given commission in an
other famous British Columbia unit,
the 102nd, He participated in the
Somme fighting in the fall of 1915
and again was wounded in November
of that year. Owing to an injury to
his knee, which incapacitated him for
the time being from further service,
he was returned to Canada in Decem
ber, last, and came to Vancouver,
where he spent a joyful furlough with
his family. Anxious to get back to
the firing line, Lieutenant MacDon
aid underwent an operation on his
knee three weeks ago. AS already
stated, infection developed and pneu-
monia set in, both lungs being in
volved. He breathed his last shortly
after four O'Clock this morning,
Lieutenant Macdonald leaves to
mourn the loss of a brave and gentle
son and brother, his parents and
three sisters, Mrs. F. A. H. Sitwell of
Chicago, Mrs. Thomas e. Price whose
husband is in France, and Miss Mary
Macdonald. He was nephew of th,
late Lieutenant John Gilmour Hay,
formerly city solicitor of Vancouver,
who was killed in action when fight
ing with the 47th battalion"