Donald Peter Macdonald papers ca. 1890-1963, and papers of Roderick Kenneth Macdonald 1933-1946

MLMSS 9682
R 2175
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 61. Applies to R 2175/Item 2
Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 64. Applies to R 2175/Item 3

fonds

ca. 1890-1963

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Clippings, Ephemera

1325600

0.48 metres of textual material (3 boxes), some files include photographs
1 tobacco tin
2 identification tags
2 badges
1 pin
1 electric light globe
1 cigarette case - silver
1 pocket watch - silver
1 pocket knife
1 plaque
4 dice

Donald Peter Macdonald was born in London on 3 August 1886 and arrived in Australia in 1895. He attended Newington College and then studied theology with the Methodist Church before serving in Lismore, Coonamble, and Harden. In 1911 he returned to England, married, and accepted a position as minister of the Presbyterian Church at Minard, Scotland. He returned to Australia in 1913 and was minister firstly at Ultimo Presbyterian Church and then at Mosman from 1915 to 1941. During the First World War he was a military chaplain from 1917 to 1919 and served on the Western Front. In 1914 he was elected as independent member for Mosman in the NSW Parliament. He retired in 1947 and moved to Mudgee. He was awarded the MBE in 1962 and died in the same year.

His son, Roderick Kenneth Macdonald, was born in 1913. He was educated at Scots College and Sydney University. He joined the 'Sydney Morning Herald' in 1931. During the Second World War he served as a war correspondent in Chung-king, North Africa and Italy. In 1944 he published 'Dawn like Thunder which related his experiences as a correspondent; He was killed at Cassino, Italy in 1944.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

BOX 1
PERSONAL PAPERS
10 letters (with transcripts) written while serving as an army chaplain, 1917-18; notebook containing partial draft of a book 'Life in New South Wales', 1911, a 3 act Play 'Sequence', and a catalogue of his library; official appointment as an officer in the Army Chaplain's Department, 1918; photograph album of a trip to New Zealand; pamphlet from The Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle; various newspaper clippings relating to D. P. Macdonald

CHURCH RELATED PAPERS
'Call' to Mosman Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk); testimonials from members of the congregation of the church at Minard, Scotland; mounted photograph of war memorial tablet inscription; etching of Scots Kirk, Mosman; photograph of church cricket team; 3 photographs of D. P. Macdonalds farewell service, prior to parliamentary term, 1941; various issues of 'The Kirk Chronicle' including copy of Kirk Chronicle commemmorating passing of Donald Macdonald, 1963; invitation to laying of foundation stone of new manse at Mosman Presbyterian Church

BOX 2
POLITICAL PAPERS
Election Campaign Diary, 1941; Photographs of election campaign; scrapbook re election campaign; Political Reform League papers.

BOX 3
WRITINGS
Published and manuscript articles, poems and hymns written by D. P. Macdonald

RODERICK KENNETH MACDONALD
Photocopy of letter written from Chungking; newspaper articles written by and about Macdonald; photographs; Bachelor of Arts from Sydney Unversity; letters of condolence after his death; bank statements and cheque book

R 2175
Item 01: Tobacco tin containing two military chaplain identification tags, two Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League badges, small crown shaped pin, 2.5 volt light bulb
Item 02: Silver cigarette case, inscribed DPM
Item 03: Silver pocket watch
Item 04: Silver pocketknife, inscribed Sands Hill Mfg. Co.
Item 05: Silver plaque, inscribed by Manly Presbyterian Church 1919
Item 06: Four dice

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales