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Charles Douglas Coldstream, known as Douglas, was born in London on 9 September 1909, the third son of Carlotta (née Young) and Francis Menzies Coldstream, a stockbroker. He was educated at Rugby School where he was a cadet sergeant in the Officer Training Corps.
Douglas Coldstream entered Worcester College on 14 October 1927 and achieved a pass degree in 1930. During his time at the College he was a member of the 1930 2nd Torpid crew and also held a commission with the 13th Battalion London Regiment. He resigned his commission on 9 July 1931.
With the outbreak of war looking ever more likely, Douglas Coldstream re-joined the service and was commissioned as a temporary Captain in the Army Educational Corps on 25 February 1938; he was confirmed in his rank on 29 January 1941. He was subsequently posted to India.
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Coldstream died of pneumonia near Yatung in Tibet, on 9 December 1944, aged 35. He is buried in Gauhati War Cemetery, India and commemorated on the war memorial at Worcester College, Oxford.