Dugald Mcmillan Duncan Jr

  General Notes:

Extract from John Duncan's (Dugald's brother) "We Are All Margaret Haldane's Bairns":

He lived with his parents, sister Catherine, and baby brother John at:
Claythorn St., Calton, which is just east of Glasgow Cross.
He emigrated to Victoria, Australia, when he was a boy about 14 years of age , under what was probably called the Big Brother movement.
His immigration was arranged by a Dr. Cossar [Cosser], who had a youth club in a lane off Gallowgate, close to Claythorn St., which Dugald must have frequented.
He was employed on a farm in the Geelong area, and it was there that he met Mamie Cleary and they subsequently had two daughters - Dorothy and Anne.
Later the family lived in Lygon St., Carlton, Melbourne, and Dugald was employed as a gardener with the Parks Department of the Melbourne City Council.
Dugald was a member of a civilian army unit, and when war was declared in 1939, he enlisted in the regular army. His Unit, the 6th. Division, was shipped out to the Middle East, where hostile action had yet to be encountered.
During the Greek campaign on the mainland, Dugald was transferred to the island of Crete, and during the German Airborne Invasion of Hanea, he was wounded and evacuated to hospital in that town which was then the capital city.
A soldier mate who was also wounded, and receiving treatment at the same hospital, advised our family that the hospital was bombed by the Germans and it was a case of every man for himself, and that was the last time he saw Dugald.
Mamie Cleary and the two girls were well looked after by the returned service-men organisation Legacy, and were living at Ararat.

Dugald married Mamie Cleary.