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Name: McGOUN, David Douglas Macdonald KPM
Birth Date: 3.7.1903 Montreal
Death Date: 12.2.1987 Fordingbridge, Hants.
First Date: 1927
Last Date: 1956
Profession: Deputy Commissioner, Kenya Police.
Area: Nairobi, 1930 Marsabit
Married: In Poole 1951 Mary Evans b. 1.4.1919
Children: Charmian (13.5.1946)
Book Reference: Habari 16, 17, Police, Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 31, Colonial, Dominion
War Service: Military service 1941-42, Major
School: Bishops Coll. School, McGill University and Royal Mil. Coll. Canada
General Information:
Colonial - Ret. and reapp. Supt. Police St. Lucia 1956-62
Dominion - Assistant Superintendent of Police - 1930
Police - awarded the King's Police Medal in 1936 for his services in the NFD. Superintendent of Police, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1939. Originally Asst. Supdt. 1927. Dep. Commissioner in 1953
Gazette - 13/4/1927 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Police Cadet - D.D. McGoun
Royal Aero Club certfiicate 28.2.1938
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 The Provincial Superintendent of Police was D.D. McGoun, as tough and credible an Ulsterman as one might wish to meet, who on my return to Kisumu District was to figure in a passionate affair with the popular wife of a brother officer which split the tight community.