He attended Augusta College from 1939 to 1940, then graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University in Macon, where he became a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

[1][2] He served in the 57th Finance Disbursing Unit and was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana as well as in the European theatre of World War II in England, France and Belgium.

On March 22, 1980, he addressed a crowd estimated to be between 200 and 300 people where he unveiled the Georgia Guidestones monument in Elberton.

[3] He explained that the monument was to guide future generations and that it should make Americans try to ecologically preserve the environment.

Georgia State Route 56 Spur, in Augusta, was named in his honor as the Doug Barnard Parkway.