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H. (Composer) Douglas

1882–1954

A little-known English musician remembered for a small body of organ music, including pieces preserved by IMSLP and later publishers. The surviving record is thin, but it points to a working composer-organist whose music stayed in circulation long after his lifetime.

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Machine gun manual : a complete manual to machine gunnery, containing details of Maxim, Vickers, Lewis, Colt, Hotchkiss, together with drill (elementary and advanced) fire orders, notes from the front and a mass of other useful information

Machine gun manual : a complete manual to machine gunnery, containing details of Maxim, Vickers, Lewis, Colt, Hotchkiss, together with drill (elementary and advanced) fire orders, notes from the front and a mass of other useful information

by H. (Composer) Douglas

About the author

Harry Douglas (1882–1954) is listed by IMSLP as a composer with two surviving works in its catalog, A Souvenir and Fantasy in C major. Published sheet-music listings also identify him as Captain Harry Douglas, suggesting that military service was part of his public identity as well as his musical one.

Reliable biographical detail is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to describe him as a British composer and organ musician whose known legacy rests on a handful of organ pieces rather than a large, well-documented career. That scarcity of information gives his work an archival feel: he is one of those figures kept alive mainly through score libraries and specialist music catalogs.

For listeners, that can be part of the appeal. Douglas belongs to the wide circle of lesser-known late-19th- and early-20th-century composers whose music survives because performers, librarians, and enthusiasts continued to value it enough to preserve and reprint it.