Service Details
Name:
LEE
Given Name:
DOUGLAS MELVILLE
Initials:
D M
Service No:
76117
Rank:
Sapper
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Regiment:
South African Engineer Corps
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Unit:
4 Field Coy.
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Date of Death:
1944-11-12
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Date of Birth:
1918-06-29
Age:
26
Cause of Death:
Died as a POW, froze to death in a snowstorm on 12th November 1944 after escaping from a German prisoner of war camp in Italy. Captured at Tobruk
Additional
Information:
Son of Michael and Janet McCallum Lee, of 50 Devenish Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria. His three brothers also died in service.
Commemoration
Country:
Italy
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Cemetery:
MILAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
II. D. 8.

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