Captain George McDougal M.C.

Captain George Nisbet McDougal, M.C. 629 Squadron, Royal Engineers. He was killed in action in Normandy at La Breche during the landings on D-Day 6th June 1944, aged 23. He had been born in Lauder and was the son of Captain and Mrs Arthur McDougal of Blythe, Lauder and is buried in Hermanville War Cemetery, Calvados, France. His Headstone is inscribed ” Elder Son Of Captain and Mrs A. R. McDougal, Blythe, Lauder, Scotland, Goodbye “. He had been educated at St Mary’s School, Melrose, where he had been Dux and the Merchiston School, Edinburgh where he had won the Dux for science.  He then went on to thw Royal Military School at Woolwich and was commissioned from there in 1940 into the Royal Engineers. He had fought in North Africa and had won his Military Cross for distinguished service with the Eighth Army in Libya in 1943. There is a carved lectern to his memory in Lauder Old Parish Church.