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In the winter of 1938–39, Douglas and his future wife Andrey Parker made a snowman in the grounds of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]]. Douglas and his wife would go on to have two children and at least two grandsons.
During the [[London Blitz|Blitz]], in 1940–41, Douglas's [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] Unit, 'C' Company of the [[Chelsea and Kensington Battalion]] of the KRRC, had its headquarters in the basement of the [[Royal School of Mines]], just the other side of [[Exhibition Road]] from the museums. He commissioned into the [[Corps of Royal Engineers]] on 7 March 1943 as a [[second lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36112|supp=y|page=3432|date=30 July1943}}</ref>
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