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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=MacNicol Duncan Cowan
|Army number=94715
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=27 August 1904
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt in the 9th Battalion 12/8/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Posted 12th Bn DLI. Posted 70th Brigade HQ as Intelligence Office vice Lt A.I. Catto 17/9/1939.  Attended Intelligence Course.  Transferred to the Black Watch 20/12/1939.  Returned from Intelligence Course 24/12/1939.  Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940, although remaining on Brigade HQ Staff.   Served B.E.F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.  Staff Employment 1943, HQ Western Command.  Released from service 1945 as Honorary Major.  Captain TARO (Black Watch) 1/9/1948.  Ceased TARO liability on age grounds 9/10/1954 granted rank of Hon Major.
|Task or role=Brigade Intelligence Officer.  Assistant Brigade Major.  Brigade Transport Officer 19/9/1940.  Staff Captain 24/7/1941 to 24/8/1941. Left for UK 3/12/1941 to visit  War Office.  Staff Captain 12/4/1942.  Posted to Western Command as Staff Captain Q (Ops) 4/8/1942.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=W/S Lt and T/Captain 1/10/40, W/S Captain & T/Major 15/8/43.
|Died/Killed in action=Death registered December 1969, Southport, Lancashire.
|Home address=Educated George Watson College, Edinburgh.  Schoolmaster.
|Source table=1TS
}}