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NAME:                      Alexander, Douglas Glencross
RANK:                      Flight Cadet
UNIT:                      Hampshire Regiment attached Royal Air Force 20th Training Wing (formerly 1150 Royal West Surrey Regiment & 832 Corporal Hampshire Yeomanry)
BATTALION ETC:             15th Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         204933
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Killed 8th October 1918
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 24. Born around 1894 at Winchester.
                           Son of Robert and Edith Kate Alexander of Glencross, Morn Hill, Chilcombe, Winchester.
                           Husband of Elsie Jane Alexander (nee Hampshire), married around June 1918 at Devizes, Wilts.
                           The family lived at Lawn House, 28 Eastgate Street, Winchester in 1901.
                           Served France, Belgium & Egypt. 
                           Enlisted as a Trooper in the Hampshire Yeomanry 1913.
                           Born: Trinity, Winchester. Enlisted: Guildford, Surrey. Resided: Winchester.