4806517 Sjt Alfred Leonard DOUGHTY, 336 Battery, 102 LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery: 14/05/1945

Remembering Today

On the morning of 10 May 1945, 102 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, under command 9 AGRA, cross the German border and are deployed in THEBING, KRECHTING, HOPPERMAN'S HOF & RAESFELD.

Their sole operational duty was to set up a Train Guards Transit Camp at BOCHOLT and to provide guards on trains running between BOCHOLT and OSNABRUCK. Men from 336 Battery provided the first guards on 11 May. On the 13th May, 2 of their number were dead and another injured, when the train they were travelling on crashed into an oncoming train. Sergeant A.L. Doughty and Gunner J.G. Ross were the men to die, a few short days after the cessation of hostilities in North West Europe.

They were buried at REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY and their deaths recorded a day later than reported in the war diary.

• 4806517 Gunner John Gibson ROSS, 336 Battery, 102 LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery: 14/05/1945

Casualty Details | CWGC
Name: DOUGHTY, ALFRED LEONARD
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 4806517
Date of Death: 14/05/1945
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 336 Battery, 102 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: 59. C. 1.
Location: Germany
Additional Information: Son of Leonard and Alice Beatrice Doughty, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
Personal Inscription AND THUS HE WENT, A NOBLE LAD, PREPARED TO DO OR DIE. A NOBLE SACRIFICE