Hall, Sergeant Douglas Harry, Royal Engineers
A bricklayer, he came from Derby. In the Royal Engineers, he came to work on Woodhaven Pier and to build the anti-tank landing blocks at Tayport, and while here, met Jean whom he married in 1941. They lived at 20 Mars Gardens, Woodhaven.
Douglas was stationed in Italy and was apparently involved in the construction of a pontoon bridge, when he was hit on the head, fell into the water, and drowned. He died on 10th July 1944, aged 23, and was buried with full military honours at Caserta, Italy.
The Italian Campaign lasted from the summer of 1943 until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Allied soldiers advanced slowly up through Italy from Sicily in the south, to the German border in the north, meeting fierce Italian and German resistance all the way.
Poppy made by P7, Wormit School.
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NHGDate of creation
2022Date of coverage
1944Place
Wormit, Mars GardensContributor
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)Reference number
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