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Gnr. John Doig MM
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Angus Monifieth
Pte. William Doig
British Army 2nd Btn., A Coy. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Gilmeton, Edinburgh
William Doig served with 2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
Pte. John Dolan
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
(d.16th Aug 1917)
John Dolan was born in Jarrow and lived in Gateshead. He enlisted at Newcastle. He is remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial.
Pte. Peter Dolan
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Carrickboy, Co Longford
(d.29th Mar 1916)
Peter Dolan is buried in Bois-Carre Military Cemetery in France. He was my grandfather on my mother's side.
Sgt. T. Dolan
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.13th May 1918)
Serjeant Dolan was the Son of Patrick and Mary Dolan; husband of Helen O'Donnell Dolan, of 29, Albert St., Edinburgh. Born at Berwick.
He was 34 when he died and is buried in The Hague Roman Catholic Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Pte. George Edwin Dolbear
British Army 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment
from:Broadclyst, Devon
(d.9th May 1917)
Capt. Robert Dolbey
British Army RAMC
Captain Dolbey had been captured at La Bassee in October 1914, when he was in charge of a field hospital. Subsequently, he was imprisoned at Sennelager and Crefeld POW Camps.
Gnr. Herbert George "Bertie" Dolley
British Army 48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire.
(d.25th Dec 1915)
Bertie Dolley married my maternal grandmother, Emma Cocks, at St Marys Church, Hertingfordbury on 15th April 1909. He was 21 and she 24.He was, I believe, at that time a police constable in Bishops Stortford. They lived at Coles Green.
He was among the first of the BEF to set foot in France in August 1914. Gunner Herbert Dolley 19963 was a member of 48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. The photos of him at the time show him dressed as a cavalryman, when most of his comrades would have been dressed as infantry soldiers, perhaps his being groom to Captain Rupert B. Peters had something to do with that.
He was 29 years old and had four young children, the youngest, my mother just 14 months, when on Christmas Day 1915 he was killed by enemy shelling. It was reported he climbed out of the relative safety of a cellar during the barrage of German artillery shells, to waken two men who were sleeping in a barn. The barn took a direct hit and all three were killed. A letter was found amongst his belongings, which was sent to the addressee Mrs Leslie of Birch Green Schools, in it he thanked the children for the parcel he had safely received, and said how much he would treasure the card they had sent with it. It had brought back many pleasant memories of the happy hours spent with his school chums, many of whom, he knew had given their lives for the country. Both this letter and the one from Captain Peters which accompanied, it were later published in The Hertingfordbury War Record along with the notification of Herbert's death. Captain Peters spoke of how much he liked my Grandfather who was his groom and said how deeply saddened he was for my widowed Grandmother and her four little, now fatherless, children.
Gunner Dolley 19963 is buried in Louvencourt Military Cemetery Plot 1, Row C, Grave 24.
2nd Lt. Richard Dolman MM.
British Army North Somerset Yeomanry
from:Bathampton, Bath
My great grandfather Dick Dolman joined the Nth. Somerset Yeomanry around 1909. Equivalent to the TA they were called up in Aug 1914. I have a photo of him in Queen Square, Bath with his horse, waiting to entrain for Salisbury Plain. I'm sure he told me he had to supply the horse himself.
At some point he moved to the Som LI and having been a sergeant in 1914 ended the war as a 2nd Lieut. No one in the family knows for what deed his MM was awarded. He survived the war unscathed and died in may 1970 at the age of 92.
Pte Richard Dolman
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.7th Aug 1916)
Pte. Stephen Dolman
British Army 1/6th Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:38 Dale Street, St Pauls, Bristol
(d.19th Mar 1916)
Born 1897 St Agnes, Bristol Stephen Dolman was the son of William and Mary Christina (nee Allen) and worked in the printing department at St Anns Board Mills. He is buried at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps.
I believe that Stephens's elder brother William also served with the Gloucestershire Regiment and was Killed in Action but paucity of records I cannot definitively prove this.
Lt. Christopher Patrick Domegan
Royal Air Force
from:Dublin
(d.10th October 1918)
Christopher Patrick Domegan was with both the Royal Air Force and the Irish Fusiliers. He was 29 when he was killed and is buried in the South-West part of Ardcath Graveyardc Co. Meath.
He was the son of Mrs. Catherine Domegan, of 29, North King St., Dublin
He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes from a German submarine in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
Lt. Christopher Patrick Domegan
Royal Air Force
from:Dublin
(d.10th Oct 1918)
Christopher Domegan was the son of Mrs Catherine Domegan of 29 North King St, Dublin. He previously served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He was 22 when he drowned in the Irish Sea whilst on the RMS Leinster. He is buried in the Ardcath Graveyard in Co. Meath, Ireland.
Lpcl. J. Donaghy
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
J Donaghy was wounded in October 1916
Skr1. Alfred Donald
Royal Navy HMS Derwent
from:Acton, London
(d.2nd May 1917)
Alfred Donald was born 1st March 1897 in Clapton, son of Adelaide Donald of Acton. He was an engine fitter before enlisting with the Royal Navy on 7th of June 1915. On 2 May 1917 he was aboard HMS Derwent, a River class destroyer, when she struck a contact mine laid by German submarine UC-26 in the English Channel off Le Havre, France. She sank with the loss of 58 officers and men including Alfred. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial and the War Memorial, St. Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Pte. Arthur Liloup Donald
British West Indies Regiment
from:Rosemary Castle, Jamaica
(d.9th April 1916)
Private Donald was the Son of Willoby Witcomb and Margaret James, of Port Henderson, Rosemary Castle, Jamaica. Born at St. Catherine.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Somerset Military Burial Grounds, Grave 19, in Bermuda
Pte. David Donald
British Army 1/10th Scottish King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool
David Donald enlisted in November 1915. He disembarked for France in April 1914. He served as a stretcher bearer and may have been gassed in July 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. He was taken prisoner at Epehy during the third Battle of Cambrai, and imprisoned at Munster being repatriated in January 1919.
He became a senior journalist in Edinburgh, Scotland, but never spoke or wrote a word about his wartime experiences.
Pte. George Moir Donald
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Dundee, Scotland
My grandfather George Moir Donald fought with the machine gun corps in WW1. He left his wife and two young sons on 11th december 1915 to go and fight for his country. He was badly injured by an exploding gun/shell which lodged in his chest, he was put in an iron lung machine and was not expected to live. His wife travelled abroad on her own, to bring him home.
He was very ill for a long time, but my grandmother nursed him back to health. George was discharged from the machine gun corps due to his wounds on 1st October 1918. He suffered all his life with his wounds and the metal that was still inside his chest. He worked as a jute mill overseer in Dundee and died in 1965, aged 74 years.
Pte. George Moir Donald
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Dundee, Scotland
George Donald was my grandfather who served in WW1 in the Machine Guns Corps. In 1918 he was badly injured in action, and as a result he was put in an Iron Lung Machine, but he was not expected to live. But with the care of his wife over a long period of time, he survived. He was a jute overseer for most of his working life, he died in 1965.
Pte. Lennard Donald
Australian Imperial Force 7th Sanitary Section Light Horse
from:Narracoorte
Sgt. Robert Emslie Donald
British Army 126th Brigade, HQ Coy. Royal Field Artillery
from:Aberdeen
Pte. William Alexander Donald
British Army 7th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
(d.15th Sep 1916)
William Alexander Donald born 1886, was working as a footman before joining the KRRC in August 1914, he went out to France in May 1915, he was Cpt Morice St Aubyn's Batman.
The following is an extract from a newspaper cutting which his sister kept in between the pages of her diary: "Mr. & Mrs Donald have been informed that their son, Rifleman William Donald, has been posted as wounded and missing after an engagement on the 15th ult. William enlisted at the outbreak of war and went to France the following March. Captain St Aubyn, who was wounded at the same time, writes as follows to Mrs. Donald "I am afraid that there is now no alternative but to presume that your son was killed in action on September the 15th, he was my servant for over a year, he was always cheerful even when things were most uncomfortable, when I was wounded he assisted me back to the nearest trench, which was a few hundred yards distant. We crossed the open ground all right and were within a few yards of the trench when he was hit by a bullet, which went through his back, it must have pierced his lung. Regular medical parties come up as soon as possible after a position has been captured, and had he been alive when they arrived they would have brought him in."
Sister. Donaldson
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux
Sister Donaldson served at No. 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux
Pte. Alexander Donaldson
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
(d.10th Mar 1915)
Alexander Donaldson, Private 3638 is buried at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
L/Cpl. Alexander Allan Donaldson
British Army 2nd Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highalnders
from:Clydebank
(d.11th May 1915)
Lance Corporal Alexander Donaldson was killed on the 11th May 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres. He was involved in fighting near the small village of Hooge, his body was never recovered, he left behind a daughter who was less than one year old. He had previously worked in the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank.
L/Cpl. Hugh Murray Donaldson
British 2nd Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Edinburgh
(d.4th Oct 1917)
Hugh Murray Donaldson was my great great grandfather. He died when my grandfather was 5 yrs old. I've found his army will online and I am trying to find his grave. I'm guessing he died at Ypres but I don't know for sure.
Editor's note: 18448 L/Cpl Hugh Murray Donaldson served with the 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers and died on the 4th October 1917. He is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.
Capt. James Donaldson
British Army 9th Bn Black Watch
from:Fife Scotland
(d.23rd Aug 1917)
This photo shows officers of C Company, 9th Battalion Black watch photo with Tommy Byers sitting on the right and Captain James Donaldson sitting in the centre. Captain James Donaldson was killed on the 23rd of August 1917 at the Battle of Arras just north of Rouex France. I have an aerial photo bomb shot of the area taken on the 30th September 1917 at 5:00 PM. This photo has been confirmed by McMaster University..
Sgt. John Donaldson
British Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland
(d.8th July 1916)
Sergeant John Donaldson, was my great uncle, who worked in the local railway yards. He enlisted in 1914, and embarked on 25th August 1915 for France. John was killed in action on 8th July 1916 attacking Bailiff Wood, near Contalmasion. Sadly, his body was never recovered and is remembered on Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. John Donaldson
British Army 1st Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.5th March 1915)
Pte. Robert Donaldson
British Army 8th Btn. C Coy. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.12th Apr 1917)
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