7/09/14   Photo a Day   Father

Iain Donald Hay McDougall

6/09/14  -16/09/2000

I love this photo of my father when he was about three years old, this photo would have been taken in Christchurch NZ as he lived in that city for the first ten years of his life with his Australian father and English mother.

He joined the AIF and fought in Egypt and Palestine in World War Two but was injured and repatriated home in 1942 and then became a Public Servant for the Meat Board and for a time was General Secretary of the Farmer's and Settler's Association of NSW. Then he turned his hand to Journalism for a time at the Sydney Morning Herald and then he started his own publishing firm which specialised in industrial journals.

All his life he wrote poetry and prose and many times his works were published in The Bulletin until that was taken over by Fairfax (?)

My parents divorced in January 1963 and from that date until his death I only saw him a few times although he was a prolific letter writer all his life.