Medals awarded to Alistair Macdonald for service in World War I and World War II, and red identity disk or 'dog tag' inscribed '2 LT. MCDONALD.A.R. PRES 12BN A.I.F.
Medals are:
Full size, in original packaging: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal with accompanying ribbon bar
Minature: Mounted War Medal 1939-1945, Australia Service Medal 1939-1945

Photographs collected by Alistair Macdonald relating to the International Military Tribunal for the far East, including official US Signal Corps photographs of the trial in progress and social events.

Photographs of military subjects.

5 items of correspondence by Alistair Macdonald.

Items, generally ephemeral in nature, collected by Alistair Macdonald. File includes school report, driver's licence, Brisbane Grammar School Magazine June 1918, Australia's home of health booklet, ration books, identity card, British Armed Forces Special Voucher for 3d, 'Order of the Longest Hop', bus timetable, YMCA membership card, menus, membership cards, short form birth certificate and plan of drainage for 'Hillview'.

Material relating to Alistair Macdonald's career as Associate to Justice Alan Mansfield, including correspondence, small notebook, Statement issued by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Sydney and Melbourne, in an endeavour to throw light on the present trouble in North China, sovenier for Allied forces present at the surrender of the Second Japanese Army, Certificate of Service of an Officer, order of service for Thanksgiving for Victory in Europe, The dominions: partnership or rift by Arnold L. Haskell, Alistair Macdonald's passport, satirical notes on the first day of International Military Tribunal for the Far East, photographs of Justice Norton Stable and Justice Alan Mansfield.

10 newspaper cuttings relating to Alistair Macdonald.

112 letters addressed to Alistair Macdonald from various correspondents.

Photographs of various members of the Macdonald family, their extend family, friends and acquaintances.

Greetings cards and invitations addressed to Alistair Macdonald.