Regimental number | 22 |
Place of birth | Glen Innes, New South Wales |
School | District School |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Shop assistant |
Address | Glen Innes, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Next of kin | Father, F A Doust, Glen Innes, New South Wales |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Rosebery Park, New South Wales |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 13th Battalion, A Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/30/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A38 Ulysses on |
Regimental number from Nominal Roll | Commissioned |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 13th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Cross Recommendation date: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 24 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 24 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 69 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Frederick Alfred Albert and Annie Eliza DOUST (nee HEYDON), Glen Innes, New South Wales |
Medals |
Military Cross 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Whilst leading reinforcements to the front line he was severely wounded by enemy shell fire. In spite of this, however, he guided his men to cover, and when shelling stopped again led them forward to the trenches, handed them over to his company commander, and then collapsed from loss of blood. No praise can be too great for his pluck and devotion to duty.' (Since deceased)'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 110 Date: |
Family/military connections | Brother: [1281] Lt Harold DOUST MC, 30th Bn, killed in action. 30 September 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Medals: Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |