MCDOUGALL, Murdoch Christie
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Known as:
Big Mac
Rank:
Lieutenant (later Captain)
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Intelligence Corps
Service:
Army
Service Number:
240447
Died :
Sunday, December 26, 1976
Commissioned 1 August 1942. Volunteered for commando service and joined No.4 Commando on 18 December 1942 as a Section Officer of 'F' troop and later 3 troop replacing Lieutenant Macdonald who had been killed at Dieppe. Active service included France, Holland, and Germany. Retired from service with rank of Captain.
1948 employed in the Lovat Estates office at Beauly, Inverness, before moving to Broughty Ferry, Dundee, to take up a post as language teacher at Grove Academy. In 1958 he moved to Edinburgh to take up an appointment in the modern languages department at the Royal High School. Member of the Edinburgh branch of the Commando Association. Author of the book Swiftly They Struck - The Story of No.4 Commando. The death of Captain Murdoch Christie McDougall M.A.,PhD., was announced in Commando Association newsletter 64 (1977).
Sources
London Gazette 35666, page 3552.
WW2 Medal Card Index.
Major James Dunning, No.4 Commando and CBTC.
Report in the Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser 8 March 1958. page 5.
Commando Association newsletters 28 (1959), 56 (1973), and Obituaries in newsletter 64 (1977).
[Image] The McDougall Family.
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