LIFE

Joined HMV Recording Staff as a youth at 17 (= ca. 1921/1922)
recorder (BW/CW) from 1926 - 1930 and probably in other series afterwards.
In 1930 resident in Vienna (to return to Hayes first)
to replace Beckett in Berlin in 1931
Recorded Kostis (=Bezos) in 1931 Athens.
Was awarded the “Star of Rumania” (when?).
left the company as per 22 July 1935 (on leave from Milan)
residence in 1935: 148, Church Road, Bexley Heath, Kent, UK

Appointed by BBC on 14 April 1936 as Producers’ Assistant, Variety.
During the war years (1939-1945 he worked in the BBC Variety Department and produced the “Glenn Miller Band” and “Higang”.
He also put the new “Ted Heath Band” on air.
Resigned on 8 April 1966 as Assistant Head of Gramophone Programmes.
Worked for the BBC and retired from BBC ca. 1966.
Worked for Decca for a number of years (?), then moved from Surrey to Germany

Lived in Berlin (Germany) from 1975 to his death in 1996.
(source: letter A. D. Lawrence to Leonard Petts (EMI), dd. 3 Dec 1978; Lawrence was then 74 years old)
Address in Germany:
Douglas Lawrence
Senftenberger Ring 24
1000 Berlin 26
(0)30 - 402 8386

Obituary in BBC Staff magazine ‘ARIEL’ of 12 Nov 1996 by his son Vernon LAWRENCE