{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Short description|Australian Army officer (1898–1981)}} {{Infobox military person | name = Alex MacDonald | image = | alt = | image_size = | caption = | nickname = Bandy | birth_date = {{birth date|1898|04|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Walcha, New South Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|05|12|1898|04|13|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ryersonindex.net/search.php|title=Search for Notices|website=ryersonindex.net}}</ref> | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales | allegiance = Australia | branch = Australian Army | service_years = 1940–1950 | rank = Lieutenant Colonel | service_number = | unit = | commands = Australian Cadet Corps<br />Jungle Training Centre<br />Darwin Mobile Force | battles = Second World War | awards = | relations = | other_work = }} Lieutenant Colonel '''Alex Bath "Bandy" MacDonald''' (13 April 1898 – 12 May 1981) was an Australian Army officer.
==Family and education== MacDonald was born in Walcha, New South Wales,<ref>[http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/IndexSearch?form=IndexingSearch&cgiurl=%2Fcgi-bin%2FIndex%2FIndexingBirth.cgi&sname=MacDonald&gname=Alex&fname=&mname=&event=births&frange=1898&trange=1898&place=&x=63&y=7&SessionID=39078581 BD&Ms] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130627223013/http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/IndexSearch?form=IndexingSearch&cgiurl=/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingBirth.cgi&sname=MacDonald&gname=Alex&fname=&mname=&event=births&frange=1898&trange=1898&place=&x=63&y=7&SessionID=39078581 |date=2013-06-27 }}. Retrieved 4 May 2013.</ref> son of Emily (née Bath) and Alexander Mark MacDonald.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130628001144/http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/IndexSearch?form=IndexingSearch&SessionID=39079503&event=marriages&sname=MacDonald&gname=Alexander&fname=&mname=Emily&frange=1890&trange=1900&place=&submitBtnOnce.x=89&submitBtnOnce.y=3 BD&Ms]. Retrieved 4 May 20123</ref> He was educated at Newington College from 1913 until 1916.<ref>''Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998'' (Sydney, 1999) pp 123</ref>
==Military service== MacDonald served during the Second World War and commanded the Jungle Training Centre and Darwin Mobile Force.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/165151382?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22Bandy+MacDonald%22&c=picture&versionId=179999052|title=Men of the Darwin Mobile Force drawn up in full ceremonial dress in Martin Place as Major A.B. (Bandy) MacDonald lays a wreath on the cenotaph.|publisher=}}</ref> At war's end he became Director of the Australian Cadet Corps<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46335908 |title=CADETS IN CAMP. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=26 August 1947 |accessdate=4 April 2013 |page=9 Edition: SECOND EDITION |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and then was senior Australian military observer with the United Nations Commission for Indonesia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47646129 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth |date=18 February 1949 |accessdate=4 April 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was discharged from the army on April 13, 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/VeteranCertificate.aspx?VeteranID=845145|title=WW2 Nominal Roll - Certificate for ALEX BATH MACDONALD|website=www.ww2roll.gov.au}}</ref> His [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131549/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/165139639?l-textSearchScope=*ignore*%7C*ignore*&l-word=*ignore*%7C*ignore*&sortby=dateAsc&q=%22A+B+MacDonald%22&c=picture&versionId=179987308 portrait] is held by the Australian War Memorial.
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