Robert Doran

Lieutenant Robert Doran (18 June 1827 - 14 April 1852) is a British Army Officer.

He was commissioned in Her Majesty's on 26 January 1844, one of the regiments the Doran family were closely affiliated with; Robert Doran's father was recorded as a captain in the regiment in 1823, stationed in Malta.
He was promoted lieutenant (by purchase) on 6 August 1847 and later appointed adjutant of the regiment and part of the storming party when British and Indian regiments stormed the Great Pagoda (Shwedagon) in Rangoon, Burma on 14 April 1852. He was of the four British killed in the attack; 42 of the regiment were wounded. According eye witness reports Robert Doran was shot four times as he entered the Pagoda's compound and attempted to ascend the temple's steps. Doran was initially buried at the north eastern corner of Shwedagon Pagoda platform. However, he and other fallen comrades were later exhumed and reburied in Rangoon's Cantonment Cemetery.
He married Georgiana Hughes in Wexford, Ireland on 21 March 1821, there is no record of any children.

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