Regimental number | 2595 |
Place of birth | Wedderburn, Victoria |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Wedderburn, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 27 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Louisa Douglas, Wedderburn, Victoria |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 9th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Gunner |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 11th Field Artillery Brigade |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal Recommendation date: |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted 26 May 1915, 9th Bn, 8th Reinforcements. Taken on strength, 49th Bn, 29 February 1916. Taken on strength, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, 17 March 1916. Wounded in action, 22 July 1917. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | France |
Age at death | 29 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 29 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 16 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John and Louise DOUGLAS, Wedderburn, Victoria |
Medals |
Military Medal 'This man showed great pluck and endurance during operations on 7th/8th June 1917 before MESSINES. He worked as runner during a period of 24 hours duty from F.O.O. to Group Headquarters bringing very important despatches under heavy shell fire.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 219 Date: |
Other details | Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |