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Identity
Person No.
27656
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
John Douglas
Initials
J D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Grave Reference
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Coordinates
Additional Information
Notes
Son of Thomas and Jane Walsh, of Newcastle; husband of Edith Maud Walsh, of "Paradise," Newcastle, Natal, South Africa. He served in the Natal Carbineers, Anglo-Boer war (Trooper) Transferred to Natal Volunteer Composite Regiment near the end of the war and was a Lt. by 1906 for the Natal Native uprising. He has been awarded the QSA medal with TVl, OFS, Laings Nek and Relief of Ladysmith clasps, KSA medal with 01 and 02 clasps, 1906 NNRM and then the 3 from WWI with a Mentioned in Despatches. Jack as he was known lived in Newcastle and was in business with his wife's father (Ryder family).
Citation
LG Sup 22 August 1918 - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15"
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project