D M MacDougall 1904 - 1991

Mr. D. M. MacDougall, Cadet Officer, was seconded to the Colonial Office from 1st February, 1937.

David Mercer MacDougall of the Ministry of information Hong Kong escaped from Aberdeen in HMS Cornflower's motor launch under heavy machine gun and mortar fire before joining up with the 2nd MTB Flotilla on the South West of Ap Lei Chau Island.

Some of David's personal letters to his wife Catherine from his time in Hong Kong, including his experiance escaping in HMS Cornflower's launch from Aberdeen are held at the Bodleian Library, Universty of Oxford.

He returned as Brigadier Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong 1945 - 1949, and was acting Governor from May 1947 - 25 Jul 1947

David MacDougall during the escape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David MacDougall socialising with the Chan & Hsu families in Hong Kong 1969

 

 

 

David MacDougall, Cdr Hugh Montaghu, General Yu Han Mow and Admiral Chan Chak with Col Owen H Hughes at Kukong 6th January 1942.

 

 

 

 

 

"David retired from the Colonial Service and farmed in Suffolk until the late 1960s. Latterly he divided his time between East Anglia and Scotland, and died in Strathtay, very close to his home town of Perth, in May 1991 at the age of 86.”

 

 

Charles Edwin [Ted] Ross of the Ministry of information Hong Kong

 

Ministry of Information

Mr Charles Edwin [Ted] Ross of the Ministry of information Hong Kong was David MacDougall's assistant and they escaped from Aberdeen in HMS Cornflower's motor launch under heavy machine gun and mortar fire before joining up with the 2nd MTB Flotilla on the South West of Ap Lei Chau Island.

Ted supplied a detailed thirty page account of the events in Hong Kong and subsequent escape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The surving members of the VIP party shot up in Aberdeen South in HMS Cornflower's launch

 

 

Back: Supt Bill Robinson I.P., W. O. William M Wright HKRNVR, Capt Peter Macmillan R.A.,Capt Reginold Guest 1st Mdsx HQ staff, Coxswain Leung Chuen, Ted Ross B.M.I.

2nd: David MacDougall B.M.I., Admiral Chan Chak, Major Arthur Goring staff, Squadron Leader Max Oxford

1st: Merchant Marine Holgar Christiansen, Lt Cdr Henry Heng Hsu

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly Ted passed away in 2005 aged 93