CORLETT Douglas Stephen

Educated at Bromsgrove School.  Articled to a Chartered Accountant.

Douglas Corlett was born in 1897.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1910 to 1913. On leaving school Corlett was articled to a firm of Chartered Accountants in Wigan.  In August 1915 he was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers, having applied for a commission in an infantry regiment on reaching his 18th birthday.  He saw nearly two years service with his Battalion on the Struma Plain in Macedonia, and was gazetted Lieutenant in 1917.  In June 1918 he left Salonica for France.  His Battalion was attached to the 50th Division, Fourth Army, and took an active part in the final advance, notably in the taking of Le Catalet on 4th October, and in clearing Mormal Forest on 4th November, where it suffered severe casualties.  Corlett was among them, having his spine fractured by shrapnel.  He died 8 days later in the Base Hospital.  Corlett left school young, before he could attain to any prominence, but he was always conspicuous for his cheerful courage and loyalty, qualities which won him the affectionate regard of officers and men in his Regiment.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.