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Son of William and Mary Douglas, of Janebank, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Submitted in memory of the members of the 131st Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Drinnon Douglas
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 531 of 1076. He was originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
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Submitted in memory of the members of the 131st Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 531 of 1076. He was originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 399 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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