In Memory Of
LEE, DOUGLAS MELVILLE
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
1918-06-29
Service No:
76117
Rank:
Sapper
Unit:
4 Field Coy.
Regiment:
South African Engineer Corps
Date of Death:
1944-11-12
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. D. 8.
Cemetery:
MILAN WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Michael and Janet McCallum Lee, of 50 Devenish Street, Sunnyside, Pretoria. His three brothers also died in service.
