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David Fairweather Don

Second Lieutenant

Service No. Unknown

Age 22

Died on 1 July 1916

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Dr William Gerard Don and Jean Ann Don, of West Hampstead.

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Melanie Harries

Frolm a Don of a younger generation, we will remember.

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Henry Harrison

David, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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He attended University College School, in Hampstead and he is commemorated on the School's War Memorial which was designed by Edgar Lutyens....

Melanie Harries

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David, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions...

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