South African Veterinary Corps
James Douglas Graham COLQUHOUN
Dresser
Died 20 December 1917 · Aged 21
His story
James Douglas Graham Colquhoun was an agricultural engineer. His mother Annie lived in Wolhuter, Johannesburg. He served as a dresser in the South African Veterinary Corps, no. 1024, and was taken on strength on 12 June 1917.
He embarked at Durban aboard Huntscliffe on 30 July 1917 and returned aboard the hospital ship Oxfordshire on 8 October. His service card records his death from cerebral malaria at Grey’s Hospital, Maritzburg, on 20 December 1917. He is buried at Pietermaritzburg (Commercial Road) Cemetery.
Before the war
- Nationality
- South African service
- Occupation
- Agricultural engineer
- Family
- Mother: Annie Colquhoun, Wolhuter, Johannesburg
Military service
- Rank recorded
- Dresser
- Service number
- 1024
- Corps or service
- South African Veterinary Corps
- Enlistment or entry recorded
- Taken on strength 12 June 1917
Death and burial
- Date of death
- 20 December 1917
- Age
- 21
- Place of death
- Grey’s Hospital, Maritzburg
- Recorded cause
- Cerebral malaria
- Cemetery or memorial
- PIETERMARITZBURG (COMMERCIAL ROAD) CEMETERY
- Grave reference
- 2870.
Sources and further reading
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
- CWGC-DERIVED CASUALTY DETAILS
- South Africa War Graves Project
- Original record image
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “James Douglas Graham Colquhoun”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/sa_james_douglas_graham_colquhoun/.
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