Memorial: M4223

Wall tablet in Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey commemorating Lieutenant Commander Donald Priaulx McGregor RN d. 1918

Location

Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / DONALD PRIAULX MACGREGOR / LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY / KNIGHT OF THE GRECIAN ROYAL ORDER OF / THE REDEEMER / THREE TIMES MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES / SON OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER DONALD / MACGREGOR 92 HIGHLANDERS AND MAY ISABEL / PRIAULX HIS WIFE / BORN JUNE II. 1887 KILLED IN / ACTON AT KUSU BAY I. OF IMBRIOS / JAN 20. 1918 WHEN IN COMMAND / OF H.M. MONITOR 28 / HIS SHIP BEING ON FIRE HE GAVE THE ORDER TO ABANDON HER / REMAINING HIMSELF TO FIRE A LAST SHOT AT S.M.S. BRESLAU / Joyous You lived and leapt / Into The gaping dark, where sleep / Our Fathers all, to find / Old Honour jest Of fools / Yet still the soul of all delight'

Details

Description: Carved with a naval sword and RN badge.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: West wall facing font
Materials: Alabaster

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Macgregor, Donald Priaulx
Age: 30
Date of Death: 20/1/1918
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters