Name
Douglas Willian Prout
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Royal Berkshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 D.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Son of William Andrew and Jessie Sophia Prout, of 34, West Lodge Avenue, Acton Hill, London. Douglas William Prout was born in Sawbridgeworth in 1891, the son of William and Jessie Sophia, W of 34, West Lodge Avenue, Acton Hill, London. William described himself as a solicitor and farmer at the time. The family lived at Hillfield House Knight Street. Douglas’s grandfather was John Prout, the agriculturist, author and entrepreneur who worked from Blounts Farm Allens Green. Douglas Prout attended St. Paul’s independent school in Richmond. By the time of 1911 census the family had moved to Ealing and Douglas was working as a bank clerk. Later on though he must have moved to a solicitor’s office as he entered military service through the Inns of Court Training Corps. Douglas ended up a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th battalion of Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment.
Wartime Service
No details have as yet been discovered of Douglas’s time in the military. We do know that he perished on 3rd September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial so must have been one of the many that fell at the Somme. Douglas William Prout was 25 years old.
Additional Information
He is mentioned on neither the High Wych, nor the Sawbridgeworth memorial
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
