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Ian M
Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 47 Location: St.Boswells
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject: Lauder - Old Parish Church - Capt. G. N. McDougall, M.C. |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:17 am Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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WMR 69090 |
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Named on the Lauder Parish War Memorial as:
GEORGE McDOUGAL, M.C. CAPT. ROYAL ENGINEERS
George Nisbet McDougal, Military Cross – age 23 – Captain (125156) 629 Field Regiment, Royal Engineers.
George was educated at Pyatshaw School in Lauder, at St. Mary's School in Melrose and at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh before entering the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in the summer of 1939. He was commissioned in March 1940 and promoted to Lieutenant in September 1914. As acting Captain, he was awarded a M.C. in recognition of gallant and distinguished services with the 8th Army in Libya in 1943 and he received his medal at Buckingham Palace a month before he was killed at La Breche during the D-Day landings at Normandy.
Born 1921 in Lauder. Son of Arthur Robert and Helen Maud (Logan) McDougal of Blyth, Lauder.
Killed in Action on 6 June 1944 and buried in Hermanville War Cemetery, France
Also named on a memorial cairn at Peat Law, Blyth, Lauder, on an individual memorial in Lauder Parish Church, and on the St. Mary's School and Merchiston Castle School memorials. _________________ Ken |
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