DOUGLAS, George Robert
| Service Number: | 3508 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Coonabarabran Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 27 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery Plot II, Row H, Grave No 10. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coonabarabran St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Memorial Pillars, Coonabarabran War Memorial Clock Tower |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3508, 19th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3508, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 27 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 3508, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3508 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-27 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of George Joseph and Florence Douglas of Coonabarabran, New South Wales, George transferred to the 2nd Battalion in Egypt during February 1916. He was badly wounded at Pozieres on 23 July 1916 and evacuated to England with bomb wounds to his foot. He rejoined the 2nd Battalion just before Christmas 1916. He was again wounded in May 1917 and was treated in France, rejoining his unit in August 1917. He was promoted to Lance Corporal about a month before he was killed.
George Douglas was killed by an aerial German bomb landing on his tent at the Belgian Chateau Segard near Ypres, France on 27 October 1917. Some German planes came over the 2nd Battalion camp lines on this date and several bombs hit two or three tents, killing over 20 men outright and wounding many more.
Twelve of those killed are buried beside each other in the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, close to where they died.
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