1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as McDonald. NAA file signed on Enlistment as MacDonald. Originally recorded on the Bungendore Memorial as “Enlisted and Returned" however this was rectified in August 2014 and he is now recorded as having been KIA.
2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 3186; POB: Cardonald, Paisley, Scotland: POE: Goulburn, NSW; NOK: Mother: Ann MacDonald .Originally living Rutledge St Bungendore.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 55 Infantry Battalion - 6 to 9 Reinforcements (October 1916 - January 1917); Age: 29 4/12; Occupation: Engine Driver; DOE: 17.10.1916; Embarked: 11.11.1916. Sydney. HMAT Suevic .A29.
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 55 Battalion; DOE: 3.10.1916: KIA 4.07.1918. Buried Franvillers Communal Cemetery Extension, Corbie Albert Area, France.
5. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6
6. Goulburn Penny Post Issue 20.11.1917: Bungendore Casualties: Reports Wounding in Action of Henry Tully,D.T. Tully and John McDonald formerly engineer of the local freezing works..."The wounding of McDonald is not reflected in the NAA file.
7. Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 161 as MacDonald.
8.Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for MacDonald" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.
9. Last updated December 2015