Archibald William Campbell McDonald (25 December 1882 – 20 July 1932) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played for the
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their A ...
in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
(VFL).
Family
Parents
The son of Patrick McDonald (1852–1928), and Margaret McDonald (1853–1928), née Figgins, Archibald William Campbell McDonald, one of five boys and three girls, was born on 25 December 1882 in
Nagambie, Victoria
Nagambie is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. The city is on the Goulburn Valley Freeway north of Seymour and in the Shire of Strathbogie. As of , Nagambie had a population of 2,254.
History
The Nagambie Region is wi ...
.
Siblings
Two of his brothers,
Edwin Patrick "Ted" McDonald (1875–1919), and
Fenley John "Fen" McDonald (1891–1915) also played VFL football; Ted, with Essendon, and Fen with both Carlton and Melbourne.
Fen enlisted in the First AIF, and was killed in action during the
landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on 25 April 1915. Another brother, Stanley David McDonald (1888–1945), also served in the First AIF, enlisting on 20 May 1915, before the news of Fen's death had reached his family.
Arch married Susan Lillian Patten (1884–1972) in 1910.
Football
Arch and Ted played together in their only game with the Essendon First XVIII: the last match of the season,
against Fitzroy, at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 9 September 1905.
Death
He died in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
on 20 July 1932.
Deaths: McDonald, ''The Age'', (Thursday, 21 July 1932), p.1.
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See also
* List of Australian rules football families
This is a List of Australian rules football families, that is families who have had more than one member play or coach in the Australian Football League (previously the VFL) as well as families who have had multiple immediate family members wi ...
Notes
References
* Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
External links
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1882 births
1932 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Essendon Football Club players
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