Arthur Cameron MacDonald (1863-1940)
1922 Lieut.-Colonel, D.S.O., M.Inst.C.E., M.Can.Soc.C.E., F.R.G.S., Civil Engineer, 54, New Broad Street, E.C.2. T. A.: " Empiricism, London." T. N.: 2060-2062 Wall. b. 1863. Training: Royal Military College of Canada. Assistant Engineer, Intercolonial Railway of Canada, Construction Department, and Croton Aqueduct, New York, 1886; Resident Engineer, East Georgia and Florida Railway, 1886; Acting Chief Engineer, American Dredging Co., Panama Canal, 1887-8; Construction Chilian State Railways, 1888-92; private practice, 1892-6; Aguas Blancas Railway, 1896-1900; Chief Engineer, Borax Consolidated, Ltd., 1900-5; Contracting, 1905-14; Royal Engineers, 1914-19; Governing Director, Macdonald, Gibbs and Co. (Engrs.), Ltd. Chief Works: Construction highest railway in world, 15,823 feet above sea, Collahuasi Mines, Chile; water supply, 17,000 ft. to 5,0o0 ft. above sea, 202 kilometres, for Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway Co.; Chilian Northern Railway, 754 kilometres. Clubs: Bath, City of London, Ranelagh, etc. War Services.—Captain, Royal Engineers, July, 1915; Lieut.-Colonel, September, 1915. Director of Works, British Adriatic Mission in Serbian Retreat through Albania; D.S.O. and Serbian White Eagle, Deputy Assistant Director of Works, War Office, 1918.