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Captain KEITH CASTELLAIN DOUGLAS

Service Number: 170611
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 09 June 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 2.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Keith Sholto Douglas and Marie Josephine Douglas, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. A noted War Poet. Exhibitioner of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a student of Edmund Blunden.
  • Personal Inscription POET, ARTIST. PHIL. IV.8 "THESE THINGS" HE LOVED HE DIED IN THEIR DEFENCE

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