Donald McDonald

In memoriam

Service Number: 26494 Unit: New Zealand Infantry, 24 Battalion Capture Details: WW2 POW - Stalag XVIII-A, Wolfsberg, Austria POW Deaths (R25405152) Cause of Death: Died of wounds (S.S. Nino Bixio) Age 31 Son of Leslie Grant McDonald and Ada McDonald, of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand. 118 New Zealand prisoners of war died when the Italian transport ship Nino Torpedoed in The Mediterranean Sea between Benghazi (Libya) and Sicily by a British submarine. Their deaths, combined with the 44 men lost on the Jantzen in December 1941, amounted to nearly a third of New Zealand's POW fatalities during the Second World War.

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