OBITUARY.
The Rev Angus MacDonald. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 10. The death has occurred of the Rev Angus MacDonald, aged sixty-three years. A man ot 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 he achieved distinction. Mr MacDonald was born on the Isle of Lewis. As a young man he served for ten years in the Indian Army, where he saw much frontier campaigning. He then entered the Presbyterian Church, going to Canada as a missionary. Subsequently, he came to New Zealand, being stationed at Pokeno, Waipu, 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.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 4
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