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M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.
Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 4 September 1919.
Frederick William Charles Douglas was born in 1899 at St. Pancras, London and served during the Great War on the Western Front initially with the 17th (Service) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, and then from 7 December 1917 with the amalgamated 15/17th Battalion. He was awarded the M.M. and Belgian Croix de Guerre for gallantry in Flanders, late August to early October 1918. Discharged to the Class Z Reserve on 1 July 1919, he died at Southend on Sea in 1981.
Sold with his Croix de Guerre certificate, measuring 50cm x 41cm, in scroll tube, which states that the award – ‘for courage and dedication during the Flanders Offensive’ – was presented on 13 December 1918.
