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David Mercer MacDougall, the Glossary

David Mercer MacDougall (8 December 1904 – 13 May 1991) was a Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong between 1945 and 1949.^[1]

19 relations: Alexander Grantham, Battle of Hong Kong, Breakout (military), Cecil Harcourt, Chan Chak, Chief Secretary for Administration, Chongqing, Colonial Office, Franklin Gimson, Governor of Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, John Fearns Nicoll, Kuomintang, Mark Aitchison Young, Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), Myanmar, Perth, Scotland, Strathtay.
Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong
Hong Kong government biography stubs

Alexander Grantham

Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham, GCMG (15 March 1899 – 4 October 1978) was a British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong and Fiji.

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Battle of Hong Kong

The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.

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Breakout (military)

A breakout is a military operation to end a situation of investment (being surrounded) by offensive operations that achieve a breakthrough—escape from offensive confinement.

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Cecil Harcourt

Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt (translated to Chinese as labels; 11 April 1892 – 19 December 1959) was a British naval officer.

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Andrew Chan Chak (2 April 1894 – 31 August 1949) was a Chinese admiral of the Republic of China Navy, best known for his role in a breakout in five Royal Navy torpedo boats from the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. David Mercer MacDougall and Chief Secretary for Administration are Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Colonial Office

The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern Department to deal with colonial affairs in North America (particularly the Thirteen Colonies, as well as, the Canadian territories recently won from France), until merged into the new Home Office in 1782.

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Franklin Gimson

Sir Franklin Charles Gimson (10 September 1890 – 13 February 1975) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1946 to 1952. David Mercer MacDougall and Franklin Gimson are Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong.

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Governor of Hong Kong

The governor of Hong Kong was the representative of the British Crown in Hong Kong from 1843 to 1997.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.

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John Fearns Nicoll

Sir John Fearns Nicoll (26 April 1899 – 12 January 1981) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1952 to 1955. David Mercer MacDougall and John Fearns Nicoll are Hong Kong government biography stubs.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Mark Aitchison Young

Sir Mark Aitchison Young (t; 30 June 1886 – 12 May 1974) was a British administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of the territory.

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Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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