George James Macdonald DSO, DSC & Two Bars (30 September 1921 – 22 January 1982) was a New Zealander who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Educated locally at Thorndon School and then Wellington College, Macdonald was briefly apprenticed to an optician before commencing employment in August 1938 as a bank worker.

His initial war service was as a gunner aboard the armed merchant vessels Trienza and Fordsdale, which steamed the route between Australia and Nauru, in the South Pacific.

[1][2] He was awarded a second Bar to the DSC on 4 July 1944 for "outstanding leadership, zeal and devotion to duty in successful operations in Light Coastal Craft".

[1] Promoted to lieutenant commander in February 1945, Macdonald ended the war as New Zealand's most decorated naval officer; in addition to the DSO, DSC and two Bars, he was twice mentioned in despatches.