Captain Keith Castellain DOUGLAS (1938)

2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, attached to The Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry
Born 24 January 1920 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Killed in action 9 June 1944, aged 24
Buried at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, Calvados, France.

Keith Douglas was the son of Captain Keith Sholto Douglas MC and Marie Josephine Castellain.

He was educated at Christ’s Hospital School in Sussex, before coming to Merton as an Exhibitioner to read History.

His posthumously-published collection, From Alamein To Zem Zem, is regarded as amongst the finest works of poetry to have come out of the Second World War.