Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles George McDonald KCMG KBE KCSG FRCP (25 March 1892 – 23 April 1970) was an Australian physician, army officer and academic.
He was noted for his work as a physician in the field of Tuberculosis and during the Second World War served in Greece and Palestine as a lieutenant colonel in the Australian Imperial Force.
[3] His first military appointment was as a captain in the Australian Imperial Force on 17 June 1918 and was transferred to the Officers' Reserve on 29 October 1919.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the Australian Imperial Force on 1 July 1940, serving in Greece, Crete, Palestine and Gaza from 1941 to 1942.
[1] In 1942 McDonald was elected to the University Senate, going on to be Deputy-Chancellor in 1953 and Chancellor from 1964 to 1969, when demonstrations against the Vietnam War reached extreme intensity.
[1] He served as a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales and as Chairman of the Sancta Sophia College Council at the University of Sydney.