Private Thomas Tobin Donegan
Number: 15120
Company: 74th (Dublin) Company, 16th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 27 March 1900
Place: Cork
Age: 28 years stated on enlistment.
Trade or calling: Bank accountant
Place of birth: In the Parish of Monkstown, in or near the Town of Cork, in the County of Cork
Family: Single. Mother Margaret Donegan (nee Hacket), of Sydenham Place, Monkstown, County Cork. Father Daniel Valentine Donegan, solicitor (dec.1892).
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 7". Complexion fair, eyes grey, hair dark. Broken nose.
Religion: Roman Catholic
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 14 April 1900
Date home: __
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal; King's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901, 1902 clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 16 April 1901
Place: Pretoria
Reason for discharge: At his own request to take up a commission in the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles.
Conduct: Very good
During his service as a Lieutenant in the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles Donegan was attached to the Army Service Corps for transport duties with Cololonel Hawkinson's Column and then with the 30th Company Army Service Corps at Standerton.
After leaving the force he remained in South Africa. On 19 July 1904 he married nurse Margaret Anne Golby in Emmanuel Cathedral, Durban. He recorded his residence as Standerton and his occupation as a farmer. By 1929 he was living at Kroonstad and working as a miller. He died at 33 Symonds Street, Kroonstad, on 7 December that year.
Cork Examiner, 11 May 1901
This page last updated 17 August 2026.