Name
Douglas Macey Hands
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
420
Royal Fusiliers *1
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHILI TRENCH CEMETERY, GAVRELLE
A. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 11 Mar 1889 in Rugby, Warwickshire son of John Barry and Ellen Mary Hands.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1897-1904 and worked as a warehouseman in a textile firm.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London, entered France on 31 Jul 1915 and was killed in action by shrapnel near Arras.
Additional Information
*1 Also unofficially known as the Stockbrokers Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
