WW2 Service Record - John Dougald Macdonald

[Squaredancer]

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[wimsey]

is he the John DOUGALL Macdonald who died in South Africa in August 1985 and married Margaretha Moll Dix (previously Margaretha Schoch, born Margaretha Johnstone) in October 1960 ?

That information is from FamilySearch

[wimsey]

I see the 1937 passenger list you mentioned.

John D Macdonald age 28, banker
Vera W Macdonald age 24


a John Dougall Macdonald (bank official born 25 February 1909) married Vera Wynne Spencer (born Vera Fairhead 17 September 1912) in Pretoria in January 1957 - which I appreciate is 20 years later but they may have been co-habiting previously ?

a Vera Wynne Macdonald (nee Fairhead) died in Pretoria in January 1960 aged 47

[wimsey]

a Vera Macdonald (previously Vera Shannon) married Stephen F Hemsted in Portsmouth, England in 1942, but in my opinion this is not "your" Vera

[wimsey]

is he the John DOUGALL Macdonald who died in South Africa in August 1985 and married Margaretha Moll Dix (previously Margaretha Schoch, born Margaretha Johnstone) in October 1960 ?

That information is from FamilySearch

Margarita Moll Johnstone, born South Africa 1897, December 1919 married August Arnold Schoch.

1935, Johannesburg, Margarita Moll Schoch, divorcee, married Francis Dix (born England 1887)

1960 Margarita Dix, widow, married John Dougall Macdonald