Hay Frederick Donaldson

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Sir (Hay) Frederick Donaldson was an English mechanical engineer, born in 1856. He was Chief Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, before the First World War and chief engineering adviser to the Ministry of Munitions under Lloyd George.

He was one of the advisers selected to accompany the Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener on a mission to Russia in June 1916 and perished with all but 12 others when their ship, HMS Hampshire, struck a German mine off the Orkney Islands.

He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1913 and 1914.

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