Lt Col D E Bathgate

Commanded 13^th (HD) Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment from June 1940 to August 1943.

Douglas Evelyn Bathgate, known to his friends as Joe, was horn on 30^th October 1898 and was educated at Clifton College and the RMC Sandhurst.

He was commissioned in The Queen's Royal Regiment in May 1917. After a few months with the 3^rd Battalion he joined the 2^nd Battalion in Italy and was invalided home in 1918. In 1919 he was posted to the 1^st Battalion and served in Ireland and Aldershot.

In 1924 he was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force and served with the 1^st Bn The Nigeria Regiment until 1929.

From 1929 to 1932 he served with the 2^nd Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment in Dover and after a tour at the Depot rejoined the 1^st Battalion at Quetta in 1935. He remained with that Battalion until early in 1940 when he returned to the UK and joined the 2/5^th Battalion as 2 i/c. He served with that Battalion in France and after the evacuation he was appointed to command the 13^th (HD) Battalion. In 1943 he was posted to Nigeria to command a PTC until the end of the 1939-45 War. He then commanded a POW Camp and retired from the Army on 27^th August 1949.

From 1950 to 1957 as a retired officer he was employed as Administrative Officer at the Depot.

He died on 4^th December 1957.

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