The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:01 pm Post subject: Toff on a Scottish memorial?

Have we got this chap listed anywhere on the forum?

DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, Lord DAVID
Rank: Squadron Leader (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 544 Sqdn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 02/08/1944
Service No: 73704
Additional information: Son of Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, 10th Duke of Brandon, and of the Duchess of Hamilton (nee Poore); husband of Lady Douglas Hamilton (nee Stack). B.A.(Oxon).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: BERWICK ST. JOHN (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD

Adam

ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh

Looks like he is on the memorial at Balliol College, Oxford.

http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Past%20members/memorials.asp

Maybe also at Harrow School.

According to the SNWM, he was born in Lanark, but no sign of him on the pictures on this forum.

ADP

DerekR · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:

I can't find him here either.
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ADP · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 467 Location: Edinburgh

Found him - Strathaven.

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=417

Thanks to http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/L/lostgeneration/search/m-record.jsp?id=74983

(photo from Strathaven thread)

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kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

The family seat was nearby Dungavel Castle or Dungavel House, now Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre, an immigration detention facility.

His brother Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton was famously involved in the 1941 arrival of Rudolf Hess in Scotland by parachute on a nearby moor.
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DerekR · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:38 am Post subject:

That's where I recognised the name from! It rang bells but I couldn't explain why.
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Adam Brown · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:27 am Post subject:

Many thanks to all who looked things up here. I guessed such a prominent Scot whose family have connections all over the country must have been listed somewhere. I had tried a search but I couldn't find him.

Yes this is one of the Douglas-Hamiltons of the Dukes of Hamilton and Earls of Selkirk families.

At the outbreak of war he was one of four brothers serving in the RAF. All held the rank of Squadron Leader or greater. Lord David was the only one to be killed during the war.

Regards

Adam