A BELOVED CHAPLAIN.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12619, 11 April 1934, Page 5

A BELOVED CHAPLAIN.

DEATH OF REV. ANGUS MACDONALD.

Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. The death has occurred of the Rev. Angus Macdonald, aged 63 years, a man of vigorous personality and wide sympathies. He was honoured for his services within and without the sphere of the Presbyterian Church, and was held in high regard by a host of ex-soldiers throughout New Zealand, with whom he served as chaplain in the Great War, where lie achieved distinction Rev. Macdonald was born on the Isle of Lewis, and as a young man served lor 10 years in the Indian Army, where he saw much frontier campaigning. He then entered the Presbyterian Church, going to Canada as a missionarv. Subsequently he came to New Zealand, being stationed at Pokeno, Waiapu. Avondale, New Lynn and Richmond. He became senior chaplain during the war. with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was mentioned in despatches and received the Order of the British Empire. Recently he had been Presbyterian hospital chaplain in Auckland.