Info: Australian? Allied Unit, (81) Roderick Kenneth Macdonald, Kemsley Newspapers,War Correspondent

Any information would be appreciated.




Need assistance on Who/Where/What/How for this man who is on the Australian Commemorative Roll which is for those "Australians" who died in other Allied Services. If proved not to be "Australian" their names will not be removed from the Commemorative Roll however their details will be updated accordingly.

I have researched the Air Force members but there are many more Land and Sea deaths in a myriad of different forces.

There is not a lot of information on these people that can be accessed easily and I ask your assistance to fill in at least some of the gaps.

Hopefully some relatives may see this thread and add more.

I will make a different thread for each along the way as they may tend to get lost if clumped together.



In Memory of
Reporter RODERICK KENNETH MACDONALD

81, Australian War Correspondent
who died age 32
on 18 May 1944
Son of Donald Peter Macdonald, M.L.A., and Clarice Ann Macdonald, of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia. B.A. (Sydney); Journalist and Author.
Remembered with honour
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY



Commemorative Roll - Roderick Kenneth Macdonald

Service number: 81
Rank: War Correspondent
Unit: Kemsley Newspapers
Service: Civilian War Correspondent
Conflict: 1939-1945
Date of death: 18 May 1944
Place of death: Italy
Cemetery or memorial details: Cassino War Cemetery, Italy

 

Another
example was a fine journalist and writer Roderick Macdonald of the Sydney Morning
Herald who was killed by a landmine in Italy in 1944.42 His death was acknowledged by
General Eisenhower, a sign of how careful the American general was to publicly endorse http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/australian-studies/article/viewFile/1763/2138