Flying Officer/Wireless Operator Douglas Berry McIntosh, Royal Air Force volunteer Reserve. He was lost on an Air Operation over Germany, aged 36, on the 31st March 1944. He had been born in Selkirk and was the son of Robert and Mary McIntosh of Castlegate, Jedburgh and the husband of Catherine McIntosh of Brooklands, Sale whom he had married in Glasgow in 1938. He had been educated at Jedburgh Grammar school and worked in his fathers grocery business in Jedburgh before moving to Edinburgh. Here he worked in a grocers in Princes Street and lectured in grocery subjects at Further Education classes in the City. He was living in Sale when he enlisted and in July 1943 he was commissioned to Pilot Officer and to Flying Officer in January 1944 in 166 Squadron, R.A.F. The Squadron flew the Avro Lancaster from R.A.F. Kirmington in Lincolnshire as part of the Main Force, Bomber Command. He was lost on a raid to Nurnberg which was very costly and cost Bomber Command 95 aircraft out of the 795 bombers dispatched. He and the rest of the crew are buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Germany.