Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Graham Donaldson was a senior officer in the British Army who died as a result of illness contracted during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in 1809. He was commissioned in the

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(the Grenadier Guards). There is a memorial to him in the Guards Officers Memorial at the

Royal Military Chapel The Royal Military Chapel, commonly known as the Guards' Chapel, is a British Army place of worship that serves as the religious home of the Household Division at the Wellington Barracks in Westminster, Greater London. Completed in 1838 in the st ...

, Wellington Barracks.

Family

His eldest daughter, Eliza-Ann, married William Wright Esq, of Eyston Hall, Sudbury, in 1827. 1809 deaths Grenadier Guards officers British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars 18th-century births British military personnel killed in action in the Napoleonic Wars {{UK-army-bio-stub