Carter-Aaron tree » Cyril Ernest Douthwaite (1916-1942)
Personal data Cyril Ernest Douthwaite
Source 1- He was born on October 16, 1916 in Malton (RD), Yorkshire.
- (1939 Register) in the year 1939 in Hindlea, Broughton, Malton, Yorkshire (North Riding).
Bus conductor W.Y.R.C.C.
- (Military Service) until June 5, 1942 in Libya.
2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
- He died on June 5, 1942 in Libya, he was 25 years old.
Oorzaak: At War
- He is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya.
- A child of William Douthwaite and Elsie May Tilling
Household of Cyril Ernest Douthwaite
He is married to Helen.
They got married
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Sources
- Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921, 1939-1947, via https://www.myheritage.com/research/reco...
Cyril Ernest Douthwaite<br>Birth: Circa 1916<br>Death: May 6 1942<br>Age at death: 26<br>Burial / Commemoration: Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya<br>Burial Notes: 12. G. 24.<br>Rank: Private<br>Regiment: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)<br>Unit / Ship: 2nd Bn.<br>Service #: 4541908<br>Father: Name: William Douthwaite<br>Mother: Name: Elsie May Douthwaite<br>Spouse:
Name: Helen Douthwaite<;br>Residence: Thorpe Bassett, Yorkshire<br>Comments: Son of William and Elsie May Douthwaite; husband of Helen Douthwaite, of Thorpe Bassett, Yorkshire.<br>Source: View the full record on the CWGC website<br>This record includes 5 documents.The records in this collection are provided as a free service to the public courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The six member nations of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) are Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Historical events
Birthday October 16, 1916
- The temperature on October 16, 1916 was between 3.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
- April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
- June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
- June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
- September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
- September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
Day of death June 5, 1942
- The temperature on June 5, 1942 was between 13.2 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
- January 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
- May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
- June 10 » World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
- July 1 » World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
- July 6 » Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
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- 1934 » Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (b. 1842)
- 1934 » William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1871)
- 1947 » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884)
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