Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 495

(x) Three: Lieutenant-Colonel D. H. W. H. Donaldson, New Zealand Forces

British War and Victory Medals (62796 Lieut. D. H. W. H. Donaldson. N.Z.E.F.); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

Donald Hamish William Hawken Donaldson was born in New Zealand on 16 May 1897 and was made a Cadet in the New Zealand Forces on 5 March 1914. He was appointed Lieutenant on 4 April 1916 and advanced Captain on 1 December 1919. During the Great War he served in France with the 2nd & 3rd Battalions, Wellington Regiment, from 13 August 1917, being the Lewis Machine-Gun Officer with the 3rd Battalion, whom he was wounded with on 27 March 1918, when he suffered gunshot wounds to his left shoulder and jaw.

Made Major on 1 December 1934 and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 September 1940, he served overseas during the Second World War as an Intelligence Staff Officer from 5 June-20 November 1940 (Africa Star). He was latterly appointed Commandant of the Prisoner of War Camp at Featherstone from 6 December 1942 and was placed in Command of Area 4, Hamilton in August 1944. In 1958, he was working for the Forestry Department in Rotorua.

His full 158-page Service Record is available via:

https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/641475

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£580

Starting price
£90