Forenames

Stanley Ernest AWMM

Surname

Donne AWMM

Service number

WWI 33100 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs M.E. Anderson (mother), 14 Princes Street, Musselburgh, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 33100 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Mar 1917-21 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 79 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM Reinforcements H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, 5 Railway Operating Section AWMM

Son of the late William G. and Martha Donne, of Queenstown.

Gained commission as Second Lieutenant on 12 March 1917 (Studholme 1928).

Attached to New Zealand Light Railway Operating Company (Studholme 1928). AWMM

Death

22 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II.J.33. AWMM

Obituary

Second Lieutenant S. E. Donne, who died of wounds on October 22, was the second-youngest son of Mrs. A. E. Anderson, Dunedin, and brother of Mrs. Griffiths, Tauhei. He was born at Queenstown, Wakatipu, 26 years ago, and was educated at Otago Boys' High School. He was a keen athlete, being well-known in the football circles in Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington. He enlisted at Wellington, where he was employed in the office of the Public Works Department, and left with the twenty-third reinforcements. (Auckland Weekly News, 15 November 1917, p. 21) AWMM

Memorial name

Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20997900
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879872
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/139165/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/139165
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 31
• Studholme, J. (1928). New Zealand Expeditionary Force record of personal services during the war of officers, nurses, and first-class warrant officers, and other facts relating to the N.Z.E.F. : unofficial but based on official records. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer.
  Studholme, J. (1928). p. 102.
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 15 November 1917, p. 21.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• HMNZT 79 - Our grins : just a souvenir of the 23rds -- [Capetown?] : [Magazine Committee] : [1917]