Douglas Terrey

Douglas Terrey (born 23 June 1903) is a Unverified British veteran of World War I. He was born in the Bernard Street area of the Southampton district on the 23 June 1903.
Biography
World War I & World War II
He claims 1917 he had his first taste of Army life on his 14th birthday when he took an Army medical on Southampton Common and joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and served as a Bicycle Courier. in an article Mr. Terrey talks about his service as a Bicycle Courier and says "My job was to take messages all over Southampton on an Army bike with a great big despatch bag". He renewed his links with the Army as a medical orderly with the Home Guard during the Second World War.
After WWI
After the First World War, Doug worked at Munn and Underwood's garage, near the site of the present Civic Centre and then worked for Parsons Engineering for 31 years until he joined Esso at Fawley Refinery at the age of 49. He also studied maths and physics at Southampton University and was a member of both the Southampton Albion Silver Band and the Southampton Choral Union.He was married to his late wife Ethel for 59 years and has two children - daughter Margaret Bannister was a long-serving chairman of New Forest Council's housing committee and Age Concern Totton - as well as four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Other Articles involving Doug
Mr Terrey has also been linked to other articles such as "A Fry up a Day" which Mr Terrey mentions the First World War when he says in it "When I got my first job in the Army I would go to work on a good breakfast and I knew I wouldn't get hungry,". He was also in an article called "Doug, 105,taught me tricks of the trade back in ’39".

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