My father, Archibald Auld Donaldson, was a determined, brave and energetic man, applying all of these characteristics in his life as a rugby player, engineer, soldier and farmer.
He was born in Kirkinner in rural Galloway in 1919, the elder of two brothers, and was educated at Stranraer Academy, where he started his life-long association with Wigtownshire RFC. On leaving school he joined Post Office Telephones, training and qualifying as a telephone engineer, at that time the youngest in the south of Scotland.
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Archibald Auld Donaldson
An APPRECIATION
My father, Archibald Auld Donaldson, was a determined, brave and energetic man, applying all of these characteristics in his life as a rugby player, engineer, soldier and farmer.
He was born in Kirkinner in rural Galloway in 1919, the elder of two brothers, and was educated at Stranraer Academy, where he started his life-long association with Wigtownshire RFC. On leaving school he joined Post Office Telephones, training and qualifying as a telephone engineer, at that time the youngest in the south of Scotland.
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