View source for Donnini Alfredo Guiseppe Fusilier 4275815

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Donnini Alfredo Guiseppe
|Army number=4275815
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known
|Date of birth=28/2/1918.  Mother's maiden surname Brown.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - date not known but possibly late 1939.  Posted to 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.  Captured during the retreat to Dunkirk.  Posted Missing July 1940.  Later discovered to be a PoW in German hands.  Repatriated 1945.
|Company/Battery=Not yet confirmed.
|Task or role=Not known
|Promotions=None known
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - PoW Number 7079.  PoW Camp XX-A Thorun, Poland.
|Died/Killed in action=Died in Cleveland October 1990.
|Home address=Brother of posthumous VC Winner Dennis Donnini.  To read an account of his brother's gallantry, please click [http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=99&articleid=1363&displayorder=33 here]  Married in March 1939 to Gladys Thompson.  At the time of the 1939 General Register Alfredo was a Heavy Labourer at the Oxide and Cable Works.
|Image Name=Donnini_A_G.jpg
|Image Title=Fusilier Alfredo Guiseppe Donnini.
}}


Thanks are due to James Pasby - a colleague on the North East War Memorials Project - who had researched much of the above information.