2nd Lt. Andrew Gregg Douglas DCM, Scottish Rifles
1887 Dec 3. Born Ballymena, Co Antrim. Protestant in RIC Regiaster
1891 census at High Street, Dumbarton (same as on MIC)
1901 census at Dumbarton
1911 census he was a Bandsman at D and F Coys 2/Cameron Highlanders,Baird Barracks, Bangalore, India.
1914 Dec 19. Landed in France
1915 Aug 5. DCM Gazetted
The 2nd Camerons were part of the new Fifth Army Corps, and this had little share in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. Perhaps this was just as well, for the men were fresh and their ranks were full when the Germans made their second desperate attack on Ypres in April and May. When this battle began, the Camerons, in the 81st Brigade and the 27th Division, were in some trenches near " Kill 60," the hill that was no hill, and there they were when a green vapour the new poison gas was blown slowly towards the British lines. In the early days of May the battalion's fiercest fighting was around Hooge, where the Germans used poison gas to help them. On the nth, for instance, two companies were driven from their trenches, but Captain R. L. McCall rallied the men, and in three counter-attacks drove out the Germans at the point of the bayonet. On the previous day Sergeant A. G. Douglas had taken command of a company which had lost all its officers, and had so heartened the men that they stuck to their trench in spite of the enemy's determination to have it at all costs.
1918 Jan 31. Sco. Rif.—Co. Serjt.-Maj. Andrew Gregg Douglas. Commissioned 2nd Lt for Service in the Field
1919 May 15. Sco. .Rifles.— 2nd Lt. A. G. Douglas, D.C.M.,
retires receiving a gratuity.
1921 Jan 10. Joined ADRIC with service no 1474. Posted to K Coy
1921 Mar 13 Posted O Coy
Fined £3 by Coy Commander
1922 Jan 16. Discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1938 Jan 1. The undermentioned having attained the
age limit of liability to recall, cease to belong
to the Res. of Off. :—
Cameronians — 2nd Lt. A. G. Douglas, D.C.M.
1952 Jun 28 Dies Paisley, Renfrewshire aged 64
ADRIC
