The Marlborough
Historical Society

    Donald was born the 19th of January 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts the second of four children born to Ralph and Rose Everett. Coming to Marlborough as a foster child in the late 1920’s he made his home with Cora Shute at 6 Farm Road and attended the Wayside Inn Boys School. He dropped out of school in 1937 and returned to Hingham, Massachusetts where he lived with his Aunt Hazel and Uncle Lester Linscott.

    Donald enlisted into the Army in October of 1939. He served in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment as well as at the tomb of the unknown soldier. He served at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. While stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia he married Jesse Brown the 31st of December 1941, they would have one daughter Carol. He was assigned to the 90th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron of the 10th Armored Division. The 10th Armored Division arrived in France in late September of 1944 and spent its first month in Europe in training. One of its first battles was in the capture of the French city of Metz before moving onto the Siegfried line and moving into Germany.

    Following the German attack on the 16th of December 1944 which came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge the 10th Armored Division reinforced the 101st Airborne Division at the Belgian town of Bastogne. On the 19th of December 1944, while attempting to rejoin his unit in Bastogne, Donald assumed command of multiple men from his own unit as well as infantrymen from another Division and led their attack through enemy lines to rejoin their fellow soldiers in Bastogne. While leading his command in an attack on the Belgian town of Margeret, Donald was killed in action. He was posthumously awarded a Silver Star. He is buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg Plot H, Row 4 Grave 10.

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