MCDOUGALL, William Alexander
| Service Number: | Q215189 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 15th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 15 January 1905 |
| Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
| Schooling: | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Entymologist |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 January 1982, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 21 Apr 1942: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q215189, Page missing from Enlistment Register | |
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| 21 Apr 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 21 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, Q215189, 15th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, Q215189, 15th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant William Alexander McDougall (Service No:Q215189) served with the ACMF between April 1942 and October 1945. He was attached to 15 Battalion VDC (QLD). Mac had served in the Militia (Senior Cadets) from 1919 to 1926.
Born in Ipswich QLD in 1905, Mac grew up in Goondiwindi QLD, the eldest of two sons of Alexander McDougall (b1883 in Ipswich, QLD) and Emily Clements (b1884 in Maryborough, QLD). Alexander (a Saddler) and Emily married in 1904 in Ipswich QLD, and settled in Goondiwindi QLD.
Mac attended boarding school at Ispwich Boys' Grammar School and then attended the University of QLD (King's College) where he was awarded blues for cricket and football - and in 1930 a Bachelor of Science. In 1926 Mac was appointed a Cadet with the Department of Agriculture and Stock and in 1928 he was an Assistant Entymologist with the QLD Bureau of Sugar Statistics - initially at Meringa and then in Mackay QLD.
In 1933 in Bundamba, Ipswich QLD Mac married Mazellah (Zelda) Isabelle Sophia Walker (b1906 in Bundamba, Ipswich, QLD) - Zelda was a Teacher at Brisbane Girls' High School. Mac and Zelda settled in Mackay QLD where Mac was an Entymologist. Mac was awarded an MSc in 1934 and a Doctorate (DSc) from the University of QLD in 1949, and was the acknowledged Australian authority on rodent ecology and control. He and Zelda settled in Brisbane QLD where Mac worked as an Entymologist and Zoologist with the QLD Department of Primary Industries until his retirement in 1971. Mac was a member of the Agricultural Requirements Board (ethical code for approval of insecticides and use of pesticides) and an Associate of the QLD Museum. Mac died in January 1982 and Zelda in July that year.
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