Lieutenant Donald Deakin Williamson was killed in action in Borneo on 3rd July, 1945.

D. D. Williamson, only child of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Williamson, of Barloa Road, Mont Albert, was at Carey from February, 1938, to December, 1941, when he was in the Leaving Honours Form, after obtaining his Leaving Certificate and qualifying for Matriculation in 1940. He was Vice-Captain of the School, Captain of Tranter House, a Cadet-Lieutenant, and a member of the School Debating Team. In February, 1942, he entered the Royal Military College at Duntroon, as a staff cadet and completed the two-year course very successfully, graduating in December, 1943, as a member of the Australian Staff Corps and being seconded to the A.I.F. After further training at the Small Arms School at Bonegilla, as Senior Lieutenant of the Duntroon graduates there and at the School of Jungle Warfare at Canungra, Queensland, where he was an instructor in small arms training, he was posted to the 9th Division, eventually left Australia in April, 1945, and went into action at Labuan and N.W. Borneo.

Letters received from officers and men of his battalion, speak in high terms of his efficiency and devotion to duty, especially in swimming ashore two days before the landing to reconnoitre the position. Before he left Australia, he became engaged to Miss Lois Montgomery. He was aged 21 years.