Walter Doran (British Army officer)

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Walter Robert Butler Doran (1861–1945) was a senior British Army officer who reached the rank of Brigadier-General. Born in Lahore, India, he trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned in 1882 into the Royal Irish Regiment. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Sudan campaign, and later served in the Second Boer War. He transferred to the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment and commanded a battalion, earning promotion through the ranks and receiving brevet rank of colonel in 1905. In 1909 he became GSO1 of the 5th Division, Irish Command, and in 1910 he was made a Companion of the Bath. In 1912 he was promoted to temporary brigadier-general and took command of the 17th Infantry Brigade in the 6th Division, which fought with the BEF in France during World War I. His brother Beauchamp Doran was serving as a brigadier-general at the same time. Doran later briefly commanded the 88th Infantry Brigade and was awarded the Military Order of Savoy by Italy in 1919; he retired in 1919 as an honorary brigadier-general. The Dorans owned Down House at Redlynch, near Salisbury, where Walter Doran died in 1945. He married Elsie Teichmann in 1911; their son, Desmond Doran, served in the Secret Intelligence Service and the Intelligence Corps in World War II and died in 1946 in Tel Aviv during an attack. Elsie Doran died in 1966.