In 1912, then aged 14, Donald was taken (paid for by his mother)[1] by B-P, his uncle, on a combined vacation and fishing trip to Germany and Norway.
They took a train which then was carried over from Sassnitz in Germany to Trollborg [sic - now Trelleborg] in Sweden on the ferry, and thence to Christiania (now Oslo) by 9pm on 29 Aug, 1912.
They crossed the Glommer [sic - Glomma] river near Atna by ferry - there is now a single-lane bridge - and spent the night in a 300-year-old saeter (log cabin) at Atneosen on the West bank.
They stayed at the little farm named Finstad,[3][4] 6 km East of Atnbrua, for 6 days,1–6 September 1912, exploring and fishing in the river Atna.
Upon leaving school, Donald joined up, and was commissioned as Sub-Lt in the RNAS in Jan. 1916; he then transferred to become 2nd Lt in the Rifle Brigade 1917–18, and was wounded in Dec 1917.