Douglas was born in 1892, the eldest child of Henry D and Harriet A Wooderson. From an Obituary in the Times dated 24 August 1916. Douglas was educated at Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School and at the Moravian Knaben-Anstalt, Konigsfeld in Baden. He won the Junior Entrance Scholarship in Science at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1909, the Junior Scholaship in 1910, and, the Senior in 1912. He was Harvey prizeman in 1910 and won the Wix prize in 1911, the Bentley in 1913 and the Sir George Burrows prize in 1914. At 19 years of age he graduated at the University of London B.Sc. with honours in Physiology. In September 1914 he became L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. and in October that year he took the degree M.B., B.S. London being distinguished in Medicine, Midwifery and the Diseases of Women. He received his commission in the R.A.M.C. as temporary lieutenant in December 1914, went to the front in March 1915 and was attached as Medical Officer to the Liverpool Regiment. He was invalided home with trench fever in July 1915 and returned to his regiment in October and was mentioned in dispatches in June 1916. He was killed on Sunday August 6th 1916 in Trônes Wood, Guillemont whilst attending to the wounded. His Commanding Officer wrote” I cannot express in words the great admiration I had for him. He was one of the best regimental medical officers that I have ever met and had a great love of his work. He was killed by a shell at the moment that he was attending to several wounded men, and his courage and devotion to duty were beyond all praise.” [Information researched and kindly provided by Maurice Gay]