Archer Fortescue Duguid
Scotty Duguid: Scottish-Canadian engineer, historian, vexillologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Archer Fortescue "Scotty" Duguid OBE DSO CD (31 August 1887 – 4 January 1976) was a Scottish-Canadian engineer, army officer, historian, and vexillologist. Duguid was raised in Scotland and moved to Canada in 1906 to study at McGill University. In 1914 he received a commission in the Canadian Army and served as an artillery officer in World War I. Following the war, in 1921 he was appointed director of the army's Historical Section, a position he held until 1945; he remained the official historian of the Canadian Expeditionary Force until his retirement in 1947. In 1938, Duguid published the first and only entry in a planned eight-volume official history of Canada's participation in the Great War. Duguid was a noted expert in heraldry and vexillology, and designed a service flag for the Canadian Army that was in use from 1939 to 1944. He later modified the design as a proposed national flag of Canada. Among his other work as director of the Historical Section, Duguid designed the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower and was responsible for establishing red and white as the national colours of Canada. Duguid died in Kingston, Ontario, in 1976 at age 88.
Archer Fortescue Duguid | |
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Born | (1887-08-31)31 August 1887 Bourtie House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
Died | 4 January 1976(1976-01-04) (aged 88) Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
Education | Fettes College McGill University (B.Sc 1912) |
Spouses | Naomi Winslow (m. 1916)Frances Winslow (m. 1921) |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Canada |
Service/ | Canadian Army |
Years of service | 1914–1947 |
Rank | Colonel |
Unit | Canadian Field Artillery Historical Section |
Battles/wars | World War I |