James Macdonald
Deceased Person
1862 – 1927
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Who was James Macdonald?
Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald, KCSI, CB was a Scottish engineer, explorer and cartographer. He served as a British Army engineer, rose to the rank of Brigadier-General and was knighted. A balloon observer as a young man, he surveyed for railways in India and East Africa, explored the upper Nile region, commanded balloon sections during wars in South Africa and China and led a major expedition into Tibet in 1903–1904.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1862
Aberdeen - Also known as
- James Ronald Leslie Macdonald
- Education
- University of Aberdeen
- Died
- Jun 27, 1927
Bournemouth
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on July 23, 2013
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