DOUGLAS THWAITE MILNE

RANK: Captain.

REGIMENT: 4th Bn attached 7th Bn Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

BORN: Birkenhead Cheshire.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 28/03/1918.

AGED: 22.

CEMETERY: Arras Memorial.

PANEL: Bay 9.

LEEDS MODERN: 1904-1911.

Douglas left leeds Boys Modern to work in the Leds education Commitee, and in September 1914 he went to Leeds Town Hall and joined the 15Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds Pals.

In June 1915 douglas was granted a commision in the Queens own Cameron Highlanders, during this time Douglas was the Brigade Physical Instructor.

Douglas was sent to France and then Belgium with the 7th Camerons and fought around Iepers in Belgium being promoted to Captain.

Douglas was reported missing in the March of 1918 at Arras, which was confirmed in the November of that year, Douglas lies where he fell to this day and is Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the missing.

( In the Army's Those Who Died Records a comment is placed on Douglas's record that he Died of Wounds and "in German Hands. ")

The CWGC shows the following details:

"Son of the late Robert Milne and of Elizabeth Mary Milne, of 11, Hall Lane, Chapeltown, Leeds."

(Died in German Hands Those who died.)