Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Brenton von Donop died on 17 October 1941 aged 81.
He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in January 1880.
During the South African War (1899-1902) he commanded the Composite Regiment of Australian Bushmen, and was mentioned in dispatches for his leadership at the action at Kleinfontein in 1901.
