2nd Lieutenant Peter Norbert MACDOUGALL (189572)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Date of birth: 12th June 1921
Date of death: 8th May 1942

Died of wounds aged 20
Buried at Stellawood Cemetery, Durban, South Africa Block F Grave 253
He was born in London on the 12th of June 1921, the son of Alan Gordon MacDougall, bookseller's manager, and Ernesteen Phillipa, (nee Palmer) of 7 Colosseum Terrace, Albany Street, London.

He was educated at the Junior King's School from May 1933 and at the King's School Canterbury from April 1934 to March 1940, where he was in Holme House which became Meister Omers. He was a Senior Scholar, a member of the Marlowe Society, a School Monitor and won his athletics colours in 1938/9. On leaving King's he won a state scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford.

OHe enlisted as a Private in the Middlesex Regiment in 1940 and attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit in 1941 before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the 1st of June 1941.

The Cantuarian wrote of him:-

"He is fresh in the minds of many of us. His outstanding ability coupled with a robust and sturdy independence of outlook gave him a unique place in the school. Whether in the classroom, in the house or on the playing fields, he was listened to with respect, for even if we did not always agree with his conclusions, we knew that they were based on the probings of a keen intellect. His death at so early an age has brought to an end a career which might well have shed great lustre on the School; but we can be sure that he more than most, would fully have understood the greatness of the cause for which he gave his life, and would gladly have paid the price."

His brother, Ordinary Seaman Charles Anthony Raymond MacDougall RN (OKS) HMS King Alfred, was killed on active service on the 16th of May 1944.
Meister Omers

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