Donald Johnston (cricketer)

Donald Clark Johnston (2 December 1894 – 13 September 1918) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of John and Frances Johnston, he was born in Shanghai in December 1894.

[2] Johnston served in the British Army during the First World War, being commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in October 1914.

[3] By October 1917, he was a temporary captain, a rank which he relinquished having ceased to command a battalion.

[7] Johnston was seriously wounded during an assault on Hill 158 on 30 July 1918 as part of the Second Battle of the Marne.