Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving son of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), daughter of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; born Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educated Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Captain Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battalion Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his Regiment 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unmarried. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Colonel Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieutenant MacDonald's mother: "I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Captain Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise." He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910-11-12 and afterwards played in the former pupils' teamarried at the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. "Chronicle" for Oct. Lieutenant MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieutenant Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battalion Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.
MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving son of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), daughter of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; born Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educated Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Captain Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battalion Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his Regiment 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unmarried. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Colonel Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieutenant MacDonald's mother: "I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Captain Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise." He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910-11-12 and afterwards played in the former pupils' teamarried at the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. "Chronicle" for Oct. Lieutenant MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieutenant Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battalion Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving son of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), daughter of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; born Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educated Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Captain Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battalion Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his Regiment 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unmarried. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Colonel Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieutenant MacDonald's mother: "I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Captain Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise." He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910-11-12 and afterwards played in the former pupils' teamarried at the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. "Chronicle" for Oct. Lieutenant MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieutenant Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battalion Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.
MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving son of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), daughter of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; born Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educated Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Captain Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battalion Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his Regiment 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unmarried. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Colonel Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieutenant MacDonald's mother: "I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Captain Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise." He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910-11-12 and afterwards played in the former pupils' teamarried at the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. "Chronicle" for Oct. Lieutenant MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieutenant Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battalion Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.
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Second Lieutenant, Highland Light Infantry. Age: 21.
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