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VC980 Eric Stuart Dougall
Name Eric Stuart Dougall No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 980 Awards VC MC
Regiment Special Reserve attached to 'A' Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Later
Now
Rank VC Won A/Captain
Rank End Of Career A/Captain
Place Of Birth Brookside, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Place Of Death Kemmel, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Westoutre British Cemetery, 7 miles south west of Ypres, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Special Memorial No. 1
Gazetted 4 June 1918
VC Presented 10 July 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his sister, Miss E M Dougall
Memorials
P Headstone, Westoutre British Cemetery, 7 miles south west of Ypres, Belgium
P Named on Family Grave, Tunbridge Wells Cemetery, Kent
P Named on War Memorial, High Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
P Named on War Memorial, Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth Road, Liverpool, Merseyside
Dougall Lounge, Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth Road, Liverpool, Merseyside
Named on War Memorial, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent
Slate Memorial Plaque, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent
P Named on War Memorial, Chapel Cloisters, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Memorial Plaque, St Thomas's Cathedral, Bombay, India
P Named on VC Grove, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
P Dougall Close, High Brooms, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
By The Way…
Eric Dougall was killed a day after his 32nd birthday, and 4 days after his VC action.
VC Held By
Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
BORN 13 April 1866
DIED 14 April 1918 AGE 32
VC Won 10 April 1918 AGE 32
Place VC Won Messines, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1918
