Daniel Patrick Driscoll

[2] – 6 August 1934, Mombasa, Kenya) was a British Army officer of Irish descent, awarded many military honours for his combat service in Burma, the Union of South Africa, and German East Africa in the First World War.

[1] Driscoll stayed in South Africa until after the end of the Second Boer War, and in November 1902 left Port Natal on the SS Ortona bound for Rangoon, British India.

[3] In February 1915 he formed the 25th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers with many recruits from the Legion of Frontiersmen.

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Driscoll volunteered the service of his unit of a hundred Frontiersmen, envisaging their employment on the Western Front as behind-the-lines raiders.

[3] In 1918 at the end of WWI he returned to his old job as Commandant General of Legion of Frontiersman, but resigned after becoming disillusioned with the way the organization was being run.