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Pte. Douglas Robert Lias
British Army 2nd Btn. Black Watch
from:Bristol
My Father Douglas Lias refused to go down the mines as a Bevin Boy and was arrested and goaled as he had made his Father a promise never to do so. His Father died of the miner's disease. He was then sent from Bristol to Scotland and drafted in to the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. He was part of a team who made a propaganda film, he played a German. No idea of the film's name.
At the end of the war he was a Military Policeman and forced the Germans to watch films of the atrocities in cinemas in Nuremburg.
He was then transferred to The Gloucesters and went to Jamaica after the war.
That's all we know as he never spoke of it.
We want to know what he did, his serial number etc.