Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book, 31 Dec. 1909 (--) (11, Martin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow), dau. of (--), and had two children: Christina Smith Smart, _b._ 5 Nov. 1910; and Thomasina Smart, _b._ 1 Nov. 1914. =DONALD, MARTIE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10346), 107927, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =DONALDSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 1714, 6th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), only _s._ of James Donaldson, of 45, Jordan Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steel, of Kirkmuirhill, co. Lanark; _b._ Edinburgh, 7 Aug. 1895; educ. South Morningside Board School there; was an engineer and oven builder with D. Thomson. Ltd., of Edinburgh, Engineers; joined the Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ He was a member of St. Matthew's Parish Church, Edinburgh. [Illustration: =John Donaldson.=] =DONKIN, REGINALD LYONS=, Private, No. 817, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Edward Francis Donkin, formerly of Wyfold Court, co. Oxford, and afterwards of Maitland, Australia, by his wife, Grace, dau. of (--) Lyons, of Melbourne, and great-grandson of General Sir Rufus Shawe Donkin, K.C.B., Governor of Port Elizabeth, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances, dau. of the Most Rev. William Markham, Archbishop of York; _b._ Victoria, Australia, June, 1895; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 Aug. 1915; _unm._ =DONNAN, JOSEPH GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Sergt., No. 357, B Coy., 1/6th Battn. The King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Joseph Donnan, of Aigburth, Liverpool, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Margaret Webster (172, Upper Warwick Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late George Lawrenson, of Aigburth; _b._ Dingle, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1881; educ. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic School there; was a clerk with Messrs. J. H. & S. Johnson, Wholesale Druggists, Liverpool, and had completed his fifteenth year with this firm when war was declared. He had joined the King's (Liverpool Rifles), then the 2nd Battn. King's Liverpools (T.F.) in 1903, and at once volunteered for foreign ser.ce. He left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 30 March, 1915, by a sniper while on duty in the trenches; _unm._ He was buried on the side of a railway cutting at Zillebeke. In a letter from one of his Sergts. he was spoken of as being a "most conscientious N.C.O., and one of the best." During his twelve years' service in the King's Liverpool Rifles he became one of its crack shots, and won many prizes, in addition to two silver shooting cups. In July, 1912, he won the "Queen Mary" prize at Bisley. [Illustration: =Joseph George A. Donnan.=] =DONNELLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2248, 1/4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.) eldest _s._ of Philip Donnelley, Labourer, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Johnson McGuire; _b._ Hexham, 2 March, 1877; educ. St. Mary's Catholic School there; was a Labourer; enlisted 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. He _m._ at Hexham, 9 Aug. 1902, Annie Oliver (Gilesgate, Hexham), dau. of Frank Young, of Hexham, and left seven children: Frank, _b._ 7 Dec. 1904; James William, _b._ 10 May, 1907; Johnson McGuire, _b._ 26 June, 1908; Edward, _b._ 20 Jan., 1912; Jane Anne, _b._ 6 March, 1906; Mary, _b._ 25 March, 1913; and Elizabeth, _b._ 25 Sept. 1914. =DONNELLY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8868), S.S. 105635, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DONOVAN, ALFRED NORMAN=, Corpl., No. 12033, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., _s._ of the late William John Donovan, of Ballygoran, Celbridge, co. Kildare, Coachman, by his wife, Rose Frances Emma, dau. of the late David Richard Ellis, of West Kensington, Dyer and Cleaner; _b._ Dublin, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Christian Brothers' School, Inchicore; enlisted at Glasgow, 30 Sept. 1912; gained Third Class Certificate of Education, 12 Dec. following, and Second Class, 3 May, 1913; promoted L.-Corpl. Dec. 1913, and Corpl. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915; _unm._ His brother William, A.B., No. 239892, R.N., is now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =A. N. Donovan.=] =DOONER, ALFRED EDWIN CLAUD TOKE=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of Col. William Toke Dooner, of Ditton Place, near Maidstone, J.P., late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Chief Staff Officer, Thames District, by his wife, Augusta, 5th dau. of William Paul Metchim, of Petersham Lodge, Surrey; _b._ Victoria Barracks, Portsmouth, 3 April, 1892; and went to the King's School, Rochester, in 1902, from which he gained a scholarship at Tonbridge in 1905. There he became Coy. Sergt.-Major in the O.T.C., and afterwards Cadet Officer in 1909. He was in the shooting eight, 1907-10, and in 1908 and 1909 won the Warner Challenge Cup, and in the latter year helped to win with a record score--66 out of 70--the Hansard Cup for his House. In 1908, 1909 and 1910 his House won the Mitchell Cup, the section being under the command of Lieut. Dooner. In 1910 he represented the School in the contest for the Spencer Cup. He was also in the School XV. He passed third into Sandhurst from Tonbridge in 1910, and joined the Woolwich Coy., where he gained the drill prize, also the prize for German. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Fusiliers, 20 Sept. 1911; was promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1912; and became Adjutant of the 1st Battn. in July, 1914. He passed as a first-class interpreter in German in 1912, having previously, in 1908, when at Tonbridge, gained the first prize in that language in the examination open to all members of all public schools. He went to Belgium with his regt., 4 Oct. 1914, landing at Zeebrugge, and was reported as missing after the fighting on 30 Oct. 1914, and later information was received from the German Government that he had been killed in action on or about that date at Zandvoorde, near Ypres. From reports received from officers and men who were present on this occasion, it would appear that on the date mentioned, the struggle at Zandvoorde was most severe--as the Germans were endeavouring to get through to Calais, and the line occupied by the 7th Division was extended and thinly held. On the right of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers there were some trenches occupied by dismounted cavalry fighting as infantry, and how well these trenches were held is described by an officer, who says it was "one of the finest feats of the war." So well did the cavalry fight that nearly all were killed or wounded, and the trenches were eventually captured, thus leaving the right flank of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers open to a flank attack. Lieut. Dooner, seeing the danger, ran across a fireswept piece of ground to the company on the right, and, having carried out his instructions, wa |