LIEUT.-COL. T. HOWARD MACDONALD, C.A.M.C.
Went Overseas January, 1915, unattached, with the rank of Major. He was first attached to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Bearwood Park. From there he went to Bath, thence to Moore Barracks Hospital, and was later appointed Medical Examiner of the Pension Board, London. He went to France as Medical Officer of a Labor Battalion. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and received the appointment of Commanding Officer of the medical personnel of the Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle. This ship was torpedoed by an enemy submarine on June 27, 1918, and Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald was drowned. Out of the entire ship’s company there were only twenty-four survivors, and of the hospital personnel of ninety-seven only one officer and five other ranks escaped. In spite of their appalling circumstances the conduct of all on board was in fitting keeping with the proudest traditions of the British Army and the mercantile marine. And throughout nothing was more marked than the coolness and courage of the fourteen Canadian Nursing Sisters, every one of whom was lost. Two of the nursing sisters—Pearl Fraser and Minnie Follette—were Nova Scotians.
MISS MARGARET MACDONALD, LL.D., R.R.C.,
Matron-in-Chief of Canadian Nursing Sisters.
Miss Macdonald was born at Bailey’s Brook, Pictou County, and is a daughter of the late D. D. Macdonald. She is a sister of Col. R. St. John Macdonald, who was in command of the St. Francis Xavier Unit. Miss Macdonald served in the Spanish-American War, in the South African War, and later in the Canal Zone at Panama. In November, 1906, she was appointed a Nursing Sister in the Canadian Army Permanent Medical Corps, and after taking a course in England received the appointment of Matron-in-Chief and was in command of three thousand Canadian Nursing Sisters during the Great War. She has been decorated with the Royal Red Cross and the Florence Nightingale medal.
Lieut. M. F. Gregg, a graduate of Acadia University, Wolfville, won the Victoria Cross while serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment. The following is the official record as published in the London Gazette:
“On September the 28th, when the advance of the Brigade was held up by fire on both flanks and by thick, uncut wire, he crawled forward alone and explored the wire until he found a small gap, through which he subsequently led his men and forced an entry into the enemy trench. The enemy counter-attacked in force and through lack of bombs the situation became critical.
