Name
Donald Leo Carden
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
30912
Devonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 24 and 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Donald Carden and his brother Gerald were together at St. Edmund's from 1910 to 1913. They were cousins of Huntley Philip whose death we recorded in an earlier number. Donald was at the Front for ten months, and during the last week he had been able to approach the Sacraments, in no other weeks had he been so blessed. We see now that it was providential, for that week he was killed, and this was his preparation.
Lance Corporal Donald Leo Carden, 2nd Devon Regt., Machine Gun Corps, was horn June 28th, 1898. Educated at St. Placid's, Ramsgate, entered St. Edmund's College 1910, leaving in 1913. From 1913 to August 1911 he lived in Bruges with his family, and was forced to return to England in August 1911 owing to the war. Hoping to join the Dominician Order he entered Hawkesyard College, Rugeley, but at the age of 18 attested and joined up, July 24th, 1916.
We are proud and glad to hear of him, as of so many of our boys, what we had hoped, that he was a good, straight, steady boy, a good son, a good Catholic, and a good soldier. He was killed on April 24th, 1918.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
