Sunday 31 January 2010

Captain Malcolmson Gardiner Donahoo MC, 8th Bn, KOYLI

Captain Malcolmson Gardiner Donahoo MC of the 8th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died of wounds on the 31st January 1917. He was 43 years old, the son of Thomas Malcolmson Donahoo and Anna E M Donahoo, and the husband of Annie Donahoo of The Cottage, Wonersh, in Guildford. He was a native of London.

He originally arrived in France on the 27th August 1915, holding the rank of Second Lieutenant. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

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