Name
Douglas Gordon Whiteley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/07/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/41842
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
“A” Company, 4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. AMAND BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. C. 15.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Waterford memorials
Town War Memorial, Sale, Cheshire
Pre War
Douglas appears to have been born in 1897, in Sale, Cheshire, however some records record his birth place as Waterford – which is correct, and does he have a connection with Waterford? The son of Leonard Whiteley and Helen Whiteley. The 1901 census records Douglas aged 4, Living with his parents, at 3 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire. By 1911, aged 14, Douglas was working as a bread van boy and living in Dane Road, Sale, Cheshire. With his mother and younger brother Leslie 8.
Wartime Service
On enlisting Douglas was posted to the Duke of Cambridgeshire’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment, with the service number G/41842. He served with the 12th, 13th & 4th Battalions. Douglas was Killed in Action on the 24th July 1918 and is buried in St Amand British Cemetery.
Additional Information
CWGC records him as the “Son of Leonard and Helen Whiteley, of “Ravensthorpe” Dane Rd., Sale, Cheshire.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
