Douglas George Wetherington Lucas

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Douglas George Wetherington Lucas (registered as Douglas George Lucas) was born on 18th June 1884, in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, and was baptised there with the added name of Wetherington on 31st August 1884. He was the son of Maria Lucas the daughter of Andrew Lucas and Mary Lucas (née Dimmer). Maria married William George Witherington in Sixpenny Handley on 4 Oct 1884. By the time of the 1911 Census Douglas was single, working as a Labourer and living at Newtown, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, with his grandparents. On 22nd April 1913 Douglas sailed for Canada on the SS Ultonia. He enlisted in Ingersoll, Ontario, on 10th January 1915 as a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Canadian Infantry (Service No. 675118). He had given his address at the time as East Ingersoll, Ontario, where he had been working as a labourer. He served in France & Flanders from November 1916 and was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. He was wounded near Camiers, France, and admitted to the No. 22 General Hospital, Camiers on 3rd May 1917. He was repatriated to the Bellahouston Red Cross Hospital, Glasgow, on 3rd June 1917 but died as a result of a perforated Ileum, caused by gunshot wounds, on 4th Jun 1917 and was buried in the north west part of St. Mary's Churchyard, Sixpenny Handley, on 7th June. He is remembered on the Sixpenny Handley War Memorial.