Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant W. C. MacDonald, 18th Canadian Field Artillery, a Barrister at Law from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who was later a Liberal Member of Parliament

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. C. Mac Donald) the Victory Medal largely officially re-impressed, nearly extremely fine (2) £40-£50

William Chisholm MacDonald was born on 15 May 1886, at Bailey’s Brook, Picton County, Nova Scotia. He graduated B.A. at St Francis Xavier, LL.B. Dalhousie, and took post graduate law at Harvard. He enlisted for the Nova Scotia Siege Artillery Draft on 17 August 1916, served in France with the 9th and 3rd Batteries, Canadian Siege Artillery, and was discharged at Ottawa on 11 November 1919.

He practised law in Halifax and was elected from that riding, a Liberal, to the House of Commons in the general election of 1940, and was re-elected in 1945. During the Second World War he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defense, Col. the Hon. J. L. Ralston, a post he relinquished when the latter was dismissed from the Cabinet by Prime Minister King in the conscription crisis of 1944. Mr Macdonald died suddenly in 1946. Sold with copied service file and other research.