Second Radio Officer Alistair Murray Donaldson

Son of Richard Kennedy Donaldson and Elsie Margaret Greig, of Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Richard enlisted on September 23, 1915, at Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 6th Field Company, Canadian Engineers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 129685. A sergeant, he fought in France as a sapper. He was awarded War Service Badge number 131986, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

On February 19, 1941, the Empire Blanda was sailing with convoy HX-107 towards Grangemouth, England, when at 8:18 a.m., U-69 fired torpedoes in her direction 160 miles (258 km) south of Iceland. The explosion was so powerful that debris fell back onto the submarine. The Empire Blanda sank with her captain, 37 crew members, one gunner and a passage, position 60°45'N/18°36'W.