Name
Cyril Bernard Donovan (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 79 and 80.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, St Joseph’s Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1893 son of the late Fredric Timothy and Bergetta Anastatia Donovan and living in 9 West Street, Hertford in 1901 and in 1911 and later in High Street, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted 2268 Corporal Hertfordshire Regiment and entered France on 6 Nov 1914. He obtained a commission in 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 27 Nov 1915 and was killed in action on the Somme during the German Spring offensive.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
