Cultural References
MacDonald is often said to have been the model for the soldier who appeared on the label for Camp Coffee.
Along with the occultist Aleister Crowley, MacDonald is one of the central characters of the novel The Devil's Paintbrush by Jake Arnott. Arnott's novel uses a historical meeting between Crowley and MacDonald in Paris "as a springboard for a fictional tale that entwines the two figures closely together and charts the final days of MacDonald's life."
Australian naval hero, Captain Hector McDonald Laws Waller, captain of HMAS Perth, was named after him.
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