MCDOUGALL, William Lawrence
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Served as :
seen on records as MCDOUGALL and MACDOUGALL
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
8 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Perth City Police Force
Regiment/Corps:
Scots Guards 2nd Bn.
Service:
Army
Number:
2694429
Born:
Thursday, February 25, 1915
Birthplace:
Perth, Scotland
Died :
Tuesday, September 21, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
28
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal William McDougall, Scots Guards, was attached to No.8 Commando in 1940. He left the commando and returned to his unit, the Scots Guards, in October 1941. Killed in action in Italy serving with the 2nd Bn. Scots Guards. Son of Mrs C. Miller, 30a Ainslie Gdns, Perth. His father, Gdsm. C.N. McDougall, was killed in the last war*.
Service
18.04.1933 enlisted Scots Guards at Perth. Trade on enlistment barman.
20.09.1936 served in Palestine.
31.12.1936 returned to UK.
17.02.1937 transferred to Army Reserve.
(1937 joined the Perth City Police Force until recalled at outbreak of war)*.
12.08.1940 Acting Lance Corporal No.8 Commando.
10.11.1940 4th Special Service Bn. (commando re-organisation).
01.02.1941 No.8 Commando (commando re-organisation)**.
06.10.1941 returned to unit - Scots Guards 2nd Bn.
21.09.1943 killed in action.
Sources
CWGC (shows McDougall).
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO416/67.(shows MacDougall).
Full Service Record available online at F.M.P. / reference Scots Guards Service Records 1799-1939.
* Report in the Perthsire Advertiser 13 October 1943. Father was Gdsm. C.N. McDougall (Scots Guards).
** No.8 (Guards) Commando had already left for the Middle East embarking from the Isle of Arran on the 31st January 1941 as part of Layforce.
Notes
He enlisted in 1933 as William Lawrence MacDougall and his service record repeats this spelling in many different places some with his signature as such. War Office correspondence after his death switches to McDougall. CWGC show no relatives listed. Mothers details (she re-married) found on service record.
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