Born: June 1894
Died: 15 August 1916
Buried: Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart
Address: Kirkgate, Shipley
Parents: George Henderson & Jessie Isabella
Spouse:
Siblings: Archie
Occupation:
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Lieutenant
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Christchurch, Windhill
Children:
Regiment: Leicestershire
Alex Gawain ‘Guy’Douglas
News has been received from the War Office by Mr and Mrs George H
Douglas of Kirkgate, Shipley, that their eldest son, Lieut Alex Gawman
(sic) (Guy) Douglas was killed in action on August 15th.
Lieut Douglas had had an educational career of exceptional success and
had won the greatest respect and affection. He had both a Salt
Scholarship and a West Riding County Major Scholarship at the Bradford
Grammar School, and went to Oxford as Hastings Mathematical
Exhibitioner and Honorary scholar of Queen’s College.
He was a member of the Officer’s Training Corps at Oxford and on the
outbreak of war applied for a commission which he obtained in July last
year. He was promoted lieutenant in June last, on his 21st birthday and
was attached to the Leicestershire Regt.
A younger son of Mr Douglas, Pte Archie Douglas, who is not yet 19
years of age, has been in the Aegean for a year, being with the Sick Berth
Reserve attached to the Royal Naval Air Service.
Shipley Times & Express 25 August 1916 p4
