Donald Gordon
McMillan
MC
Born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Son of John McMillan
and Caroline Evelyn (Maney) McMillan
Brother of
Margaret Wilhelmina (McMillan) Phillips, James Lawrence McMillan, John Lloyd McMillan and Evelyn Caroline (McMillan) Gawne
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 25
in Havincourt, France
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Donald Gordon McMillan MC is an Anzac who served in World War One.
Biography
Donald Gordon was born in 1893. He was the son of John McMillan and Caroline Evelyn Maney. [1] H passed away in 1918 age 25 [2]
Donald Gordon McMillan (Service number 2/59) served in the NZ Army during World War 1, in the Smoa, Gallipoli, and Western Front campaigns. . He gave his next of kin as John McMillan (father), of 89 Rintoul Street, Wellington, Samoa AWMM He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) 'On 27th September 1918 near Moeuvres, he went forward as forward observation officer and finding the infantry held up by machine gun fire on the bank of the Canal du Nord he gallantly organised sniping parties with Lewis guns and rifles, and with his own signallers did excellent work, shooting eight of the enemy including several machine gunners working the guns. Afterwards he pressed forward under heavy machine gun fire and sent back valuable information to the brigade. He has constantly done good work throughout the last month's strenuous fighting.' [3] He embarked aboard HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 the Vessels Moeraki or Monowai as a Gunner with the New Zealand Field Artillery Samoan Advance Party. After returning to NZ in March 1915 he reembarked to Suez, Egypt with the 5th Reinforcements aboard HMNZT 24 or HMNZT 25 or HMNZT 26 the vessels Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima. Having survived at Gallipoli and the Western front until the last six weeks of the war, Second Lieutenant McMillan was killed in Action at Havrincourt, France on 28 September 1918. He was originally buried at "an isolated grave 10 yards from south side of Cantaing-Proville Road, 24 miles southwest of Cambrai' (report by 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, 8 October 1918). and was reburied in a privately owned grave on the north side of the Porte-de-Paris Cemetery. He is the only New Zealander buried in this cemetery. [4]
Sources
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
- NZ Birth registration1893/15638
- ↑ http://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
- NZ Marriage registration 1918/67898
- ↑ London Gazette, 10 December 1919, p15398
- ↑ Online Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum
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