Campbell Mellis Douglas, VC

1840 - 1909  (69 years)

• Name	Campbell Mellis Douglas
  Suffix	VC
  Birth	5 Aug 1840	Quebec City
  Gender	Male
  Death	31 Dec 1909	Horrington, Wells, Somerset, England
  Burial	Wells Cemetery, Somerset, England
  Person ID	I117013	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Dr George Douglas,   b. Bef 1842   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Charlotte Campbell,   b. Bef 1842   d. Abt 1852 (Age 10 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1842
  Family ID	F44371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Burmester,   b. Abt 1851   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	10 Aug 1874
  Children	1. George Mellis Douglas,   b. 1895, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Jun 1963 (Age 68 years)   2. Lionel Douglas,   b. Abt 1870   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F30667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Bn., 24th Regiment (later The South Wales Borderers), British Army On 7 May 1867 at the island of Little Andaman, , eastern India, in the Bay of Bengal, Assistant Surgeon Douglas and four Privates (BELL, D., COOPER, J., GRIFFITH, W. and MURPHY, T.) of the 2/24th Regiment risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf to rescue some of their comrades who had been sent to the island to find out the fate of the commander and seven of the crew, who had landed from the ship Assam Valley and were feared murdered by the cannibalistic islanders.