ACWORTH Douglas Harry

  • First Name(s):
    Douglas 
    Harry 
  • Surname:
    ACWORTH
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Major

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Corps:
    British Indian Army
  • Regiment:
    55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    6th February 1919
  • Age At Death:
    33
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Grave M. 26.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of H. A. Acworth, C.I.E., and Mrs. Acworth, of Malvern; husband of Edith Acworth, of The Palms, Orchard Rd., Great Malvern, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

ACWORTH Douglas Harry Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern Priory
Malvern WW1 War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Malvern Priory – transcribed and researched by Robert Payne

Further Information About ACWORTH Douglas Harry

Awarded Military Cross.

Order of the Nile 4th Class.

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Malvern News 21st November 1914:
Capt D. H. Acworth, elder son of Mr H. A. Acworth CIE, attached 57th Wilde’s Rifles, Frontier Force is now at the front. Capt Acworth is adjutant of the 55th Coke’s Rifles and was home on leave when war broke out. His regiment was not sent to France, being stationed on the Indian Frontier from where it was impossible to remove it.

Malvern News, 5th December 1914:
Capt D. H. Acworth was wounded on 25th November 1914 and is reportedly doing well.

A photograph of Captain D.H. Acworth, M.C. of Malvern can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 26th January 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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Credits: This memorial transcribed and researched by Robert Payne