OBITUARY
MR. DONALD M. McRAE A memher of the Main Body of tho New Zealaud Expeditionary i'orces, filr Donald Mathieson McRae, died iir Christohurch on bunday laet. Mr McBae, who was forty-three years of age, had been, in poor health for the past two years. He wa§ born in Timaru, and rpceived his education at the Prebbleton School, and later at Christ 's College, ' Christchurch. He was for twenty-seven years a member of tho stafE of- the Union Bank. In 1914 Mr McRae left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Eorce in the Cunterbury Infantry Battalion. He was wounded and aftpywards spent some time as a prisoner in, Germany. Mr McRae took a keen intereet in gun dogst partipylarly springer spaniels, and was'a memher of tho Canterbury Gun Dog Cluh, and an executivp menibpr of the New Zealand Gun Dog Cluh, and he won New Zealand and provincial ohampionships with his own dogs, Tho Hope of Cornwull and Lady Cornwall. Hq i§ survived by his widow, a daughter of Mr H. W. Piper, Christchurch.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 7
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