Material relating to the Macdonald family of 'Hillview', Greenslopes, including correspondence, notes, photographs and ephemeral material.

Research notes, manuscript drafts, photographs, rugby union memorabilia

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

Materials relating to the continued memorialisation of James Macdonald after his death including correspondence; 2 copies of a stab-sewn booklet entitled In Memoriam: Captain James Shaw Rose Macdonald; Thanksgiving Sunday 1919 order of service; Brisbane Grammar School booklet Memorial in honour of the Volunteers in the Great War; newspaper cutting; guide to Dickiebusch New Military Cemetary issued by the Imperial War Graves Commission; photographs and negatives. The latter part of the file relates to Michael White's enquiries as to the location of James Macdonald's grave and images of poppies placed on the grave each ANZAC Day.

Correspondence, medal two maps of France and a newspaper cutting relating to presentation to Jim Macdonald prior to leaving for the front.

Photographs of military subjects.

Research material relating histories of the Duckett White, the Macdonald, the Nicholson and the Morisset families.

Diary annotated by Allan White.

10 newspaper cuttings relating to Alistair Macdonald.

Cuttings from various newspapers including The Argus, Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Mail relating to Ian Macdonald, the Australian navy in WWI, HMAS Australia, HMS Hood, and the visit of the American fleet to Australia in 1925. There are several death notices for Ian Macdonald which appear to have been collected by his brother Alistair.