DOUGLAS, Colin Langslow
| Service Number: | 397 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 28 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Scotch College, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot I, Row C, Grave 28, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 397, 4th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 397, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 397, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 7 Aug 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 397, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 397 awm_unit: 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Trooper Colin Langslow Douglas (Service No:397) enlisted in the AIF on 21 August 1914, having previously served twelve months with the Militia (92 Regiment Infantry). Trooper Douglas embarked from Melbourne with the 4th Light Horse Regiment on 19 October 1914 on board HMAT Wiltshire. He served with the Mediterranian Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from May 1915 and was KiA on 7 August 1915 at Gaba Tepe (Anzac Cove), Gallopli Peninsular. Major C A Courtney wrote to Trooper Douglas' parents 'Your son was a fine fellow; he was always happy, though quiet and reserved, and was the beau-ideal of an Anzac. A well trained, disciplined soldier, and of irreproachable character, always ready to help anyone and never afraid of work. Everyone had something good to say of him. It was owing to men like him that our Squadron was the first of all Australian Light Horse to cease training, and embark at Alexandria for Gallipoli, and our Regiment, owing to the excellence of its work on that Peninsular, was granted a spell to Imbros before our turn' (UK, Du Revigny's Roll of Honour, 1914 to 1919 for Colin Langslow Douglas; Volume 2).
Born in 1894 in Launceston Tasmania, Colin was the youngest of three children of Onslow Gordon Douglas (b1861 in Westbury, Tasmania) and Kate Frith (b1863 in Launceston, Tasmania). Onslow (a Clerk with the Union Bank) and Kate married in 1885 in Hobart, Tasmania. Onslow and Kate settled in Launceston where Onslow, having completed his Articles, was a Solicitor.
Colin was educated at Scotch College and was a Farmer in Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF.
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