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Military service
Service number:
799271
Age:
28
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
June 29, 1889
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal David Donaldson
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Cap badge
Cap Badge 19th Bn . LCpl David Donaldson enlisted with the 134th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada), but was transferred to the 19th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt S. Gilbert, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Cap Badge
Bde and Div patches of the 4th Bde and 2nd Div CEF of which the 19th Bn was part. LCpl David Donaldson enlisted with the 134th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada), but was transferred to the 19th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt S. Gilbert, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge of the 134th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada): Pte David Donaldson enlisted in the 134th Bn, but was transferred to the 19th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt S. Gilbert, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 73 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal David Donaldson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 229 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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