Early Life
McDonald was born on 14 June 1903 in either South Africa or Antigua. His father was a British Army doctor who had served in the Second Boer War. He grew up on the Caribbean islands of Saint Kitts and Antigua, then members of the British West Indies. He was was educated at Antigua Grammar School, before joining Epsom College, a public school in Surrey, England.
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