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Identity
Person No.
48818
Service No.
66
Last Name
Donne 3
First Name
Albert Edward
Initials
A E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1874 (±1 yr) 227
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
12 October 1901 329
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died 72
Died of heart disease in Lancer's Road, Durban after discharge; funeral St Cyprian's Church 13/10/1901
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Durban Light Infantry 30
Later renamed 1st Infantry (Durban Light Infantry) (1912)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ENGLISH CHURCH BURIAL GROUND, DURBAN
Grave Reference
Unknown
Memorial
DLI Anglo Boer War Memorial, D.L.I. Headquarters, Durban.
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Anglo Boer War Memorial (DLI Headquarters)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban, KZN
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
The Anglo Boer War, 1899-1902 Source: kznpr.co.za (KZN: A Photographic Historical Record)
Names on Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Chapel (Chapel of St Michael & St George)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
5 DLI Avenue, Durban, South Africa
Coordinates
-29.84722, 31.01583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
Natal Volunteers Memorial, Boer Campaign 1899-1902, Pietermaritzburg City Hall.
Memorial
Natal Volunteers Memorial, Pietermaritzburg City Hall (Boer Campaign 1899-1902)
Location
Pietermaritzburg City Hall, KZN
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Colonial volunteer unit
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Motorised Infantry — Reserve
Raised 1854 as D'Urban Volunteer Guard; several earlier name changes (Durban Rifle Guard 1859, Royal Durban Rifles 1873, Natal Royal Rifles 1889) before "Durban Light Infantry" from 1895.
Notes

Son of Augusta (nee Smith) Donne of Durban; father William Longman Donne died 21 Jan 1893. Born Bridgwater, Somerset, England 1874; butcher before enlistment. Not listed in Watt's book (Jordan).

Research notes

Source: Regimental History of the Durban Light Infantry, Vol. 1, Roll of Honour, "The South African War, 1899-1902".
John Dovey, 1 Sep 2026 (findmypast.com, Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902, cross-checked against the Durban Light Infantry Chapel Boer War Roll of Honour plaque): Sergeant Albert Edward Donne, Service No. 66, Durban Light Infantry. Confirmed, full given names added.
Durban Light Infantry: Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour, compiled by K.M. Jordan, April 2020 (via angloboerwar.com's Durban Light Infantry 'Roll of honour' PDF, https://www.angloboerwar.com/images/pdf/DLI_ABW_ROH.pdf citing Historical Record of the Durban Volunteer Infantry Corps 1854-1904, The Durban Light Infantry Volume I: 1854-1934 (Lt-Col A.C. Martin), In Memoriam ROH of Imperial Forces ABW 1899-1902 (Steve Watt, 2000), Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa (Nicki von der Heyde), Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, and kznpr.co.za. gives Sergeant A.E. Donne's Service No. as 888 (not 66, as findmypast gave -- CONFLICT, not changed) and notes an identity ambiguity in its own sources: '(G.E. Donne listed in 1904 book, but won a 1906 medal.)' No burial trace found ('Unknown, no trace').
Durban Light Infantry King's Medal Roll / Muster Roll, 29/9/1899 to 31/5/1902 (V5012/02, Record Office Discharge Depot, Cape, signed G. Molyneux, Capt., Adjt. D.L.I.) -- 10-page nominal roll scan on angloboerwar.com's Durban Light Infantry unit page, 'Nominal roll images' tab.: Corps No. 888, "Donne, G.E.", served 29/9/99 to 31/5/02 with no death annotation -- this is very likely a different, surviving man (initials G.E., not A.E.; no "Dead" mark), which weighs against the Service No. 888 given for our man by the DLI ROH PDF's own source material (which itself flagged this as an unresolved identity ambiguity); existing Service No. 66 (from findmypast) kept.
K.M. Jordan, Durban Light Infantry: Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour (updated Nov 2023; email to John/Bobby 3 Sep 2026). Local file data/jordan_dli_abw_roh_2023-11-21.pdf (Downloads: "0. DLI ABW ROH - 21 Nov 2023.pdf").: Sgt Albert Edward Donne, PDF Force #888 (ROH keeps findmypast SN 66 — prior conflict); age 27; heart disease after discharge; English Church Burial Ground, Durban. FamilySearch GD6N-XKN.

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