Second Lieutenant Douglas St. George Pettigrew

Regiment: Sherwood Foresters
Date published: 23/11/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 23/10/1917
Age at death: 25
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: XXII. B. 17.
Information: Second Lieutenant Douglas St. George Pettigrew, Sherwood Foresters, who died on 23rd October, 1917, of wounds received in action on 22nd October, 1917, was the only surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew, of Penarth, Cardiff, and grandson of the late Mr. William Pettigrew, of Warrenpoint, Co. Down. He was born at Tramore, Co. Waterford, in 1892, and educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath. Volunteering immediately war was declared, he joined the Public Schools' Brigade in the early days of September, 1914, went out to the front in November, 1915, and in July, 1916, was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters. On October 22nd he and his platoon were specially picked to take a couple of German pill-boxes, in leading the attack on which he was mortally wounded, and died the following day.