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Letters & Memorials of Captain William A. Douglas, 6th Bn. The Royal Scots.
With a Preface by the Rev. James Black, Broughton Place U.F. Church, Edinburgh. 1st Ed., viii+255pp., 192x133mm, portrait frontis., 32 photos. Edinburgh: Printed and Published by Andrew Brown.
1920
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William Anderson Douglas was born in 1890 and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, becoming an electrical engineer employed by James Gray & Son, Ironmongers. He was a pre-war Territorial officer in the 6th Royal Scots and mobilized with that unit in 1914, initially to Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, then to Egypt 1915-16 and finally to the Western Front in May 1916 where he was killed in action during the night of 24th August, commanding an entrenching party about 1000 yards south-south-west of Guillemont. Captain Douglas was commanding "W" Company at the time of his death; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was twenty-six years old. Detailed letters (mostly wriiten to his mother) describing the activities of the Western Frontier Force in the Egyptian Desert (at places better known in 1941-42: Mersah Matruh, Sollum etc.), then for several months in France. These are followed by obituaries and a selection of letters of condolence. Orog. purple cloth, gilt to spine and front sp. & edges sunned, o/w VG.
£165
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