Person    | Male  Born 29/1/1913  Died 11/9/1942

Arthur Gerald Donahue

Countries: France, USA

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gerald Donahue DFC was born on 29 January 1913 in St Charles, Winona County, Minnesota, USA, the youngest of the five children of Frank Donahue (1873-1963) and Ada Gertrude Donahue née Brandt (1877-1963). 

His Wikipedia page, the American Air Museum in Britain website and the Aircrew Remembered website all give details of his life which show that he went to Canada and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, service number 81624, as a Pilot Officer and came to England in July 1940, initially serving in No.64 Squadron during the Battle of Britain before transferring to No.71 (Eagle) Squadron

As a Flying Officer in No.258 Squadron, serving in the Far East, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 27 March 1942. Promoted to Flight Lieutenant he was killed, aged 29 years, on 11 September 1942 whilst flying his Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vb aeroplane, serial number BL511, of No.91 Squadron, off Gravelines, France.

As he has no known grave he is commemorated on Panel 65 of the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial, Cooper's Hill Lane, Englefield Green, Egham, TW20 0LB. He is also commemorated on the Battle of Britain Monument, Victoria Embankment, London, on The Battle of Britain Memorial, New Dover Road, Capel-le-Ferne, Folkestone, CT18 7JJ and in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Arthur Gerald Donahue

Commemorated ati

Eagle Squadrons

{On the front of the pillar, facing north, into the square, below a carved im...

Read More

Other Subjects

Comte Robert de Lesseps, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de guerre

Comte Robert de Lesseps, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de guerre

A Frenchman, born in Paris. One of the 13 surviving children of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 94), who was responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal. Robert was an early aviator but it was ...

Person, Aviation, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lieutenant Hugh Reginald Baldwin

Lieutenant Hugh Reginald Baldwin

Hugh Reginald Baldwin was born on 4 March 1898, the second of the three children of Edward Thomas Baldwin (1847-1937) and Emily Henry Louise Stoker (1866-1936). His birth was registered in the 1st ...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Private Arthur Frederick Noakes

Private Arthur Frederick Noakes

The Hampton Wick Remembers website gives much information about this soldier. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website confirms that he died, aged 19 years on 5 May 1918 and is buried in Pl...

Person, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Normandy Landings / D-Day

Normandy Landings / D-Day

The landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations in Operation Overlord during WW2. The 'D' in D-Day doesn't stand for anything as it was used as a substitute for the actua...

Event, Armed Forces, France, USA

23 memorials
John Norwood, VC

John Norwood, VC

He was a second  patrol lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Second Boer War. On the 30th October 1899 he took out from Ladysmith a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came unde...

Person, Armed Forces, France, South Africa

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

Previously viewed

New River Head windmill

New River Head windmill

Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).

Building, Engineering, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Putney Town Rowing Club

Putney Town Rowing Club

Formed at the Half Moon Hotel in Putney. In 1929 it moved to the small boathouse underneath the Dukes Head Hotel, Putney, which remained its headquarters until 1986 when it moved to an empty boatho...

Group, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Ernest Stanley Chetwood
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
P. Bonny

P. Bonny

Churchwarden of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey in 1883.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Cpl. Cecil George Last, MM

Cpl. Cecil George Last, MM

6th South African Armoured Division

Person

War dead, WW2
1 memorial