Comments - 2015 New Years Honours - The Douglas Archives2024-03-29T07:47:21Zhttps://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3482022%3ABlogPost%3A69185&xn_auth=noYarrow-born Henry Douglas rec…tag:douglashistory.ning.com,2016-02-14:3482022:Comment:777702016-02-14T19:33:16.702ZWilliam Douglashttps://douglashistory.ning.com/profile/WilliamDouglas
<p>Yarrow-born Henry Douglas receives the British Empire Medal in this year’s New Year’s Honours list, for services to his local community of Bonchester.</p>
<p>One of the region’s best-known amateur singers, he has given years of service to local organisations and community groups, such as the church and village hall, and his voice has graced many a Hawick Common Riding function and rugby gathering over the decades.</p>
<p>Born into a farming family at Catslackburn in the Yarrow Valley, he is…</p>
<p>Yarrow-born Henry Douglas receives the British Empire Medal in this year’s New Year’s Honours list, for services to his local community of Bonchester.</p>
<p>One of the region’s best-known amateur singers, he has given years of service to local organisations and community groups, such as the church and village hall, and his voice has graced many a Hawick Common Riding function and rugby gathering over the decades.</p>
<p>Born into a farming family at Catslackburn in the Yarrow Valley, he is still actively involved in the running of the family farms at Howahill, Bonchester.</p>
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<p>“I was delighted when I found out about the honour,” Henry told us. “It came out of the blue, though, and was a bit of a shock. “The family are all delighted as well.”</p>
<p>Henry says Bonchester is a great community to be part of: “It’s a super place to live – it’s somewhere where everyone always rallies round to help each other. Saying that, I’m also very proud to be from Catslackburn, to have been born in the Yarrow Valley as well.”</p>
<p>With three children – including former Southern journalist and television sports presenter Jill – and eight grandchildren, there were plenty of people to help celebrate news of Henry’s BEM.</p>
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