Brigadier-General Sir Hay Donaldson KCB was an Australian-born English mechanical engineer.
Hay Frederick Donaldson was born on 7th July 1856 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was the second son of (later Sir) Stuart Alexander Donaldson, first premier of New South Wales, and Amelia Cowper.[1] The family moved to England in 1860.
On 15th July 1884, he married Selina Beresford, daughter of Colonel Marcus Beresford MP. They had three children.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1909 and in 1911 created Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).
He became an eminent engineer, went with Lord Kitchener on a special mission to Russia and died on 5th June 1916 when their ship, HMS Hampshire, struck a German mine off the Orkney Islands. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Hollybrook Memorial at Southampton, Hampshire.
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