Name: Rank: Service: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Date of Enlistment: Place of Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Date of Death: Age at Death: Memorial: Reference:

Charles William MacDonald

Sources Veterans Affairs Canada

Charles William MacDonald Lieutenant Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, R.C.I.C. November 30, 1914 Stellarton, Pictou Co., NS April 3, 1942 (active Service) Toronto 27 September 4, 1944 29 Gradara War Cemetery, Italy II, H, 13. Commemorated on page 485 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 16 Charles William MacDonald was the son of William Sutherland MacDonald (1893-1918) and Isabella Graham (Patrick) MacDonald Gray (1890-1960) of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, the brother of Elizabeth MacDonald (b. 1918), and the husband of Elfreda Louise (Pirie) MacDonald (b. 1916), of Hamilton, Ontario. Charles’ father Second Lieutenant William was killed in a flying accident serving with the Royal Flying Corps on January 28, 1918 during WWI. He died in an accident at the School of Aerial Gunnery in Hamilton, Ontario. Charles’s mother remarried Henry Roy (Harry) Gray (1885-1959) in 1920. Charles had two half-siblings; Henrietta Ethel Gray (1921-2005), and Robert D. Gray (b. 1924). Robert was a Pilot Officer with the RCAF overseas during WWII. Charles MacDonald served with the McMaster University Officer Training Corps from October 1939 to April 1940, and the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders beginning March 1941 prior to enlisting for Active Service in 1942. Lieutenant MacDonald was killed in action during the Italian Campaign and is interred at the Gradara War Cemetery in Pesaro Province, Italy.