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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
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Halazin
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Awards
United Kingdom
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).

Citations

LG Sup 22 August 1918 - "For distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-15"

LG Sup 22 August 1918 p.9901
LG Sup 22 August 1918 p.9901
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