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Son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario.
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Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades.
2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Memorial window, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Captain Robert Alexander Donald
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
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2521 Maj Robert Alexander Donald (RMC 1936) was the son of Robert Paton Donald and Helen Donald. of London, Ontario. He served with the Royal Canadian Artillery. He died on Dec 14, 1943 at 25 years of age. He was buried in grave II C 9 in the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona, Chieti, Italy.
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Memorial window, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
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Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
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Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario
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Page 154 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy
By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.
The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
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