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LANCHESTER

Doran, L., Gnr., 1946

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In Lanchester Kitswell Road Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

853847 Gunner
L. Doran
Royal Horse Artillery
6th September 1946 Age 28

A happy nature
A smiling face
A broken link
we can never replace

Leo Doran, the son of Arthur Patrick and his first wife was born about 1918.

Mary Teresa Hart married widower Arthur Patrick Doran in 1935. In 1939, Mary Teresa and her son Alwyn, born 1937, were living at 1, The Garths, Lanchester. Arthur Patrick was not recorded.

Leo, a factory worker died in September 1946.

Arthur Patrick of 3, Kitswell Road, born 1896, died January 1965, Mary Teresa, died aged 80 at Shotley Bridge Hospital in September 1985. Both are buried in Lanchester Kitswell Road Cemetery.

Leo Doran is remembered at Lanchester on L62.01


The CWGC entry for Gunner Doran

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk