Source: Duty Nobly Done
Note that the book Duty Nobly Done relates that this soldier died of drowning.
Military Medal. London Gazette. No. 30364. November 2, 1917.
Family Search: When Private Stanley Addison Clifford MacDonald was born on 22 November 1892, in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, Andrew Nelles McDonald, was 21 and his mother, Alberta Jane Blake, was 18. He married Ruth Marguerite Farr on 9 June 1914, in London, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1911 and lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as barber in Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. He died on 24 August 1918, in Frensham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 25, and was buried in Waverley, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
– Drowning occurred on August 24, 1918. Recovery of the body on the next day.
– Drowned at Frensham Pond. Seems to have quite a history of drownings.
– Wife later moved to 1225 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California.
– His last posting was to 4th Reserve Battalion, Bramshott after developing appendicitis.
– His front-line service was from May 2, 1917, to October 7, 1917.
– Recipient of the Military Medal.
– There is no coroner’s report, but all reference to the drowning indicates it was accidental.
– There is a notation in a personal diary of Arthur Ira Leeder that this soldier was the Camp Barber. His trade was as a barber.
“Aug. 24: A fine day. We were out on parade all morning and had the afternoon off but had to help put up some new tents. The camp barber is reported drowned in the pond this evening.
Aug. 25: A cloudy day. They were searching all day for the body but have not found it yet. We were on church parade this morning and this afternoon we were called out on parade and our tents were changed again, just the 5th time since we came here. Eight to a tent now. We went out and studied our S.S. lesson today. Tommy Stewart was over yesterday and he had a letter from Herb. He got to France alright. A wet evening.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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