MACDONALD, GRAHAME CAMERON
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Lieutenant
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26/09/1944
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The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) attd. Gordon Highlanders
II. E. 20.
Deep in our hearts he’s living yet we loved too dearly to ever forget R.I.P.
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Son of William Roderick and Ethel Elizabeth Macdonald; husband of Mollie Louise Macdonald, of Bournemouth, Hampshire. M.I. Mech. E. Awarded the Royal Life Saving Society’s Silver Medal.
He was initially buried at Meerveldhoven.
His older brother Eric Merett Macdonald served as a gunner with the
90 H.A.A. Regt., Royal Artillery. He died aged 32 on the 15th of October 1944. He is buried at the Jonkerbos cemetery Nijmegen, Holland.
Initial burial site at Meerveldhoven.
From the service records it appears that Grahame Cameron Macdonald was born on 9 January 1920 in Palmers Green, London, Middlesex. Before the war he worked as a clerk. He was married, although it is not known whether the couple had children. Macdonald was 5 feet 11½ inches tall and had blue eyes and dark hair.
He enlisted in the British Army on 11 April 1939, joining the London Scottish, a territorial battalion associated with the Gordon Highlanders. During his early service he was promoted to Lance Corporal on 14 October 1941. On 1 April 1942 he was detached to the 17th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.
Macdonald showed promise as a soldier and leader. On 1 January 1943 he was selected for officer training and sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit. After completing his training he received a War Emergency Commission on 21 May 1943 and became an officer in the British Army.
Following the Allied landings in Normandy he served with his unit in the campaign in North-West Europe. During the heavy fighting in the Netherlands in the autumn of 1944 he was wounded. He died of his wounds on 26 September 1944 at the age of 24.
