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Gordon Graham Donaldson

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Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Graham Donaldson was a senior officer in the British Army who died as a result of illness contracted during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in 1809. He was commissioned in the 1st Foot Guards (the Grenadier Guards). There is a memorial to him in the Guards Officers Memorial at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks.

Family

His eldest daughter, Eliza-Ann, married William Wright Esq, of Eyston Hall, Sudbury, in 1827.