Person:Douglas Musk (1)

1901 - With parents at 111 Dawlish Road, Leyton, Essex. Aged 7.

1911 - With parents at 57 Scotts Road, Leyton, Essex. Railway clerk GER, worker, aged 17, born at Leyton, Essex.

1912 - Enlisted for short service with the Nottinghamshire and Derbsyshire Regiment on 21 February at Stratford. Aged 18 years 5 months, previously employed as a railway clerk. Army number 7145. He joined the Army Ordnance Corps on 28 February 1912. 2nd class certificate of education. Trade: storeman. (Army Forms B250 and B69 - WO363 M2432)

Medical History: born Leyton, Essex; aged 18 yr 5/12; clerk; height 5ft 5¾in, weight 126lb, chest girth 34½in, expansion 2½in; physical development fair; pulse 100; small pox marks none; slight flat foot; fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair. Next of kin listed as Father Roland Musk, Mother Edith Musk, Brother Aubyn Musk. (Army Form B178 - WO363 M2432)

1912, December 13 - Report of Wounds (Army Form B117) "No 7145 Pte Musk D AOC was employed as Det. Cook at Kilwood Camp on 25th Nov whilst removing a dish of fat from the oven same caught fire and some burning fat fell on his right foot." He was in Fermoy Hospital from 25. 11.1912 to 12. 12. 1912 as a result of this.

1918 - Douglas was Corporal 72564 of the 10th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.) at the time he died. He was formerly of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. From CWGC: Name: MUSK, DOUGLAS L.G.R; Initials: D L G R; Nationality: United Kingdom; Rank: Corporal; Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment); Unit Text: 10th Bn; Secondary Regiment: Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Secondary Unit Text: formerly; Age: 24; Date of Death: 23/03/1918; Service No: 72564; Additional information: Son of Jabez George Rowland Musk and Edith Elizabeth Musk, of "St. John", 57, Scotts Rd., Leyton, London; Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead; Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 7; Cemetery: ARRAS MEMORIAL.

The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. It commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave.

1. ↑ 1901 Census.
2. ↑ GRO Index, West Ham, Sep Quarter 1893, 4a 390.
3. ↑ Vital Records Index - British Isles - Second Edition.
4. ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission, http://www.cwgc.org/debt of honour.asp.