Source: Inquiry made by a member of the 18th Battalion Facebook Group.
Family Search: When Sergeant Donald George Howard Rawlings was born on 4 November 1889, in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edwin Rawling, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Cookman, was 22. He married Mildred Annie Mansell on 3 January 1919, in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, in 1943 and lived in Kenwyn, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in 1891 and St Clement, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as salesman. He died on 29 July 1969, in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
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Detailed Biography by Dawn Hueston.
Enlisted with 91st Battalion and transferred to 186th. AKA Donald H. McDonald.
This soldier originally attested under an alias of “Donald McDonald,” but this was later corrected with a Statutory Declaration when proof was offered of his real name.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada · Monday, April 10, 1967. Page 3.
