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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