Donald A P Lt Royal Engineers
L IEUTENANT ANDREW PATRICK DONALD, Royal Engineers, was a son of the late Dr. James Turner Donald, and a native of Paisley. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1910 and a partner in the firm of Durham Stokes and Co.
Though over forty years of age when war broke out, and though he had already served his country in the South African War, he would not rest content until he had once again been accepted for service. He was in South Africa twenty years ago with the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry and held the Queen’s Medal with four clasps.
From 1914 onwards he made repeated attempts to rejoin, but was again and again rejected, on medical grounds, until finally in 1917 he was accepted for the Royal Defence Corps. Later he was transferred to the Royal Engineers and it was as a “sapper” lieutenant that he at length reached the Front. While on active service in France he contracted pleurisy and was invalided home. He died at Wandsworth Military Hospital on 1 February 1918, at the age of forty-four.
Lieut. Donald left a widow and four children.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918