Remembered today on the G W F

[michaeldr]

Remembered today on the Great War Forum

Private Thomas Douglas of The Border Regiment

from the CWGC

Name: DOUGLAS

Initials: T

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Border Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 09/07/1915

Service No: 6568

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. D. 9.

Cemetery: TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY

Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery is in the Helles area, about 1 kilometre south-west of the village of Krithia.

TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated sites and small burial grounds on the battlefields of April - August and December 1915. The most significant of these burial grounds were Geoghan's Bluff Cemetery, containing 925 graves associated with fighting at Gully Ravine in June - July 1915: Fir Tree Wood Cemetery, where the 29th Division and New Zealand Infantry Brigade fought in May 1915 and Clunes Vennel Cemetery, containing 522 graves. There are now 3,360 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,226 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate many casualties known or believed to be buried among them, including 142 officers and men of the 1st Essex who died on 6 August 1915, and 47 of the 1st/7th Scottish Rifles killed on 28 June. The cemetery also contains the TWELVE TREE COPSE (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL, one of four memorials erected to commemorate New Zealand soldiers who fell on the Gallipoli peninsula and whose graves are not known. The memorial relates to engagements outside the limits of Anzac in which New Zealand soldiers took part. It bears almost 180 names.

photograph of Twelve Tree Copse CWGC Cemetery from

'Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Gallipoli'

[John_Hartley]

SDGW records that Thomas Douglas was born in Harrington, Cumberland and enlisted in Barrow. He was KIA.

The History of the Border Regt. notes that on 7 July 1/Border was relieved to Gully Beach for " a much needed rest" and was there until the 11th. It'd be a reasonable guess that Thomas was a shellfire casualty.

John