Name
Donald Edward Cruickshank
2nd Nov 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Border Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 30 and 64.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bushey memorials, Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Holy Trinity Church, Combe Down, Bath
Pre War
Son of George Edwin Cruickshank and Sarah Maria, his wife (nee Tylor), of 6, Blakesley Avenue, Ealing. London.
Educated at Seabrook Lodge, Hythe; Marlborough College (Field House) and Woolwich Academy. Born at Kensington, London 1887.
Wartime Service
He volunteered for active service at the outbreak of the war and joined the University and Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in August 1914. He received a commission and was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 10th Border regiment on 10 May 1915.
He was attached to the 5th Duke of Edinburgh Wiltshire Regiment and proceeded with them to Gallipoli, where he took part in the evacuation of the peninsula; served for a time in Egypt and subsequently with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, taking part in the successful attack on Umm-el-Harrnah and Felahiah. He was reported missing after the attack on Sanna-i-Yat, on the Tigris on 9 April 1916 and is now assumed to have been killed in action, aged 28, on or about that date.
His younger brother was Andrew John Tuke Cruickshank, served as Observer Officer RFC and died 7th Jul 1916 of wounds received previous day.
Additional Information
Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Both brothers are commemorated on a beautiful stained glass window in Holy Trinity Church, Combe Down, Bath, the village where their father grew up.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
