156787 Lt Roy Campbell MacDONALD, 8 HLI attd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders: 07/11/1943

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    Personal Number: 156787
    Army Number: -
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Name: Roy Campbell MacDONALD
    Units: Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment); 8 Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) attached Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


    London Gazette : 19 November 1940
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34995/supplement/6627/data.pdf
    H.L.I.
    The undermentioned Cadets, from 161st, 162nd, 164th, 165th and 167th Officer Cadet Training Units, to be 2nd Lts. 2nd Nov. 1940:—
    Roy Campbell MACDONALD(156787).

    London Gazette : 10 October 1941
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35303/supplement/5843/data.pdf
    H.L.I.
    2nd Lt. R. C. Macdonald (156787) is dismissed the Service by sentence of a General Court-Martial. 13th July 1941.

    London Gazette : 6 February 1942
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35445/supplement/604/data.pdf
    INFANTRY
    H.L.I.
    The notifn. regarding 2nd Lt. R. C. MacDonald (156787) in Gazette (Supplement) dated 10th Oct. 1941 is cancelled.
     
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    Casualty Details | CWGC

    Name and Rank: LIEUTENANT ROY CAMPBELL MACDONALD
    Service Number: 156787
    Regiment & Unit: Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment), 8th Bn.
    Secondary Unit, Regiment: attd. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
    Date of Death: Died 07 November 1943
    Buried or commemorated at SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
    Grave Reference: II. D. 28.
    Location: Italy
    Additional Info: Son of Kenneth and Mary Macdonald; husband of Phyllis Margaret Macdonald, of Bilton, Yorkshire.
    Personal Inscription: IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND AND OUR SON "ME CHRIDHE"
     
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    His mother:

    VE Day: A mother's reflections

    [Audio in link]

    On the evening that victory in Europe was officially declared, the BBC broadcast Victory Report - a programme of reports and reflections from across the nation.
    Mrs MacDonald - who lost a son in Italy during World War Two, describes what the day means to her.
    First broadcast on 8 May 1945


    “My man was in the Artillery in the last war and I mind the anxiety I suffered as a young wife.

    By 1939, when this war broke out, we had five boys of our own. The youngest just a wee chap of seven now. So, thank God, all he saw of the war was the Clydebank raid.

    But my other four boys joined up and it’s one of them, Roy, that I’m thinking of especially tonight. He was in his second year learning to be a doctor at The Glasgow University in 1939. He volunteered for the Black Watch and then got a commission in the HLI. Roy was killed in Italy.

    Another of my sons had been discharged from the Scots Guards with the loss of one of his legs. Strangely enough, a leg that kept him in the surgeon's hands for three and a half years when he was a laddie.

    So I join with other mothers of Britain in remembering our boys who have suffered death and wounds for their country. I can’t forget that the war is only half done.

    I have another son in the Air Force, in South East Asia Command, and my second youngest had just got into the Fleet Air Arm.


    On this day of victory I pray that soon the war in the East will be over too, so that with your sons, they will return home before long. Until then, God keep them, where they may be, by air, land or sea.”
     
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