Personal Number: 71172 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Lord Douglas Claude Alexander GORDON, DSO Unit: 6 Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Edinburgh Gazette : 14 December 1937 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/15448/page/991/data.pdf THE KING has been graciously pleased to ordain and declare that Adam Granville Gordon, Roderic Armyne Gordon, and Douglas Claude Alexander Gordon, the brothers of Douglas Charles Lindsey Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, shall henceforth have hold and enjoy the same title, rank, place, pre-eminence, and precedence as the sons of a Marquess as would have been due to them had their late father, Granville Cecil Douglas Gordon, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-Colonel the Welsh Guards, survived his uncle Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, and had thereby succeeded to the title and dignity of Marquess of Huntly. London Gazette : 30 January 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36912/supplement/619/data.pdf Black Watch. Lt. (War Subs. Capt.) Lord Douglas C. A. Gordon (71172) to be Capt., 28th Jan. 1945. London Gazette : 8 February 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36928/supplement/796/data.pdf The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in"Italy: — The Distinguished Service Order. Captain (temporary Major) The Lord Douglas Claude Alexander Gordon (7:172), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (Godalming) London Gazette : 27 March 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36999/supplement/1639/data.pdf Black Watch. Lt. M. G. Stephen (71171) to be Capt., 28th Jan. 1945, next above Lord Douglas C. A. Gordon. London Gazette : 27 January 1950 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38823/supplement/465/data.pdf Black Watch. Capt. Lord Douglas C. A. GORDON, D.S.O. (71172), to be Maj., 28th Jan. 1950. London Gazette : 10 March 1950 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38857/supplement/1208/data.pdf Black Watch. Capt. M. G. STEPHEN (71171) to be Maj:, 28th Jan. 1950, with precedence next above Maj. Lord Douglas C. A. GORDON, D.S.O. (71172).
Recommendation for Award for Gordon, The Lord Douglas Claude Alexander Rank: ... | The National Archives Reference: WO 373/9/244 Name Gordon, The Lord Douglas Claude Alexander Rank: Captain Service No: 71172 Regiment: 6 Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment Theatre of Combat or Operation: Italy Award: Distinguished Service Order Date of announcement in London Gazette: 08 February 1945
See also Person Page His brothers: 106573 Lord Adam Granville GORDON, KCVO, MBE, MID, Royal Artillery Douglas Charles Lindsey GORDON, 12th Marquess of Huntly, Gordon Highlanders 75089 Lord Roderic Armyne GORDON, MBE, TD, Royal Artillery