Lt. Col. Henry Herbert Douglas-Withers, MC

1885 - 1948  (63 years)

• Name	Henry Herbert Douglas-Withers
  	Capt. (T./Maj.) Herbert Henry Douglas-Withers. S. Lane. R. awarded the Military Cross, 28 August 1917. Probably the Maj HH Douglas-Withers, Bt, MC, P.W. Vols. listed as a Staff Captain at 2nd Rhine Brigade (?1924) (The Prince of Wales' Volunteers) The 1st Battalion Corps of Drums play a set of 16 silver bugles presented to the 1st Battalion The South Lancashire Regiment (PWV) in 1913 by Lieutenant Colonel H H Douglas-Withers. Captain Douglas-Withers fought in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915/16 with the Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) and was awarded the Military Cross for exemplary gallantry. After the campaign he was part of a small British force that was sent stabilise Tblisi, as many White Russians were there, fleeing the Red Army. Richard Zommer was teaching in Tblisi and sold his paintings locally. Captain Douglas-Withers purchased a number of his pictures including At Prayer and stored them in Army Map containers for transport home
  Title	Lt. Col.
  Suffix	MC
  Nickname	Bunny
  Birth	1885
  Gender	Male
  Lived	Manobier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  Death	1948
  Burial	Regimental Chapel of the South Lancashire Regiment
  Person ID	I306	Story Family
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Henry Withers,   b. 1852   d. 1891 (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Margaret Tutt,   b. 1853   d. 1890 (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1877
  Family ID	F156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Vera Guy Everett,   b. 1889   d. 5 Jun 1978, Freeland House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	1914
  Children	+ 1. David Bethell Everett Douglas-Withers,   b. 14 Jul 1926, 5 Bath Terrace, Instow, Devon, England d. 1991 (Age 64 years) + 2. Maj. Gen. John Keppel Ingold Douglas-Withers, CBE, MC,   b. 11 Dec 1919   d. 3 Nov 1997 (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F99	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Royal Tournamaent 1932 Gift "Presented to Lt. Col. H.H. DOUGLAS-WITHERS. M.C. By his brother officers in appreciation of a very successful regimental pageant at the Royal Tournament, 1932"

  
  

  Documents		Changing name to Douglas-Withers by deed
  		DW family history from Mark

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		About Bunny (letter to Nancy D-W from Sylvia D-W)
  		About Bunny and the D-W name(from Nancy D-W)
  		David Douglas-Withers - Letters 1944 Mostly between his father and his housemaster at Eton