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Baron Hankey

Donald Hankey, brother of the first Baron, was a soldier best known for two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in the First World War.

Donald Hankey

That grave was never located, and his name appears on the huge Thiepval memorial to the 70,000 missing and unidentified dead who fought on the Somme.

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After a short respite at an Army School behind the lines, Hankey was back in the trenches near Le Transloy.

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