Ian MacDougall

Career MacDougall went on to command the submarines HMS Otter and HMAS Onslow, the guided missile destroyer HMAS Hobart and the fleet tanker HMAS Supply. He became Director of Submarine Policy in 1982, Commander of the submarine base HMAS Platypus in 1985 and Director General of Joint Operations and Plans for the Australian Defence Force in 1986. He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1993 Birthday Honours, and retired in March 1994. He retired to Tasmania in 2003.

Personal life MacDougall was married to television journalist and presenter Sonia Humphrey from 1996 until she died in 2011. After his retirement from New South Wales Fire Brigades, MacDougall and Humphrey moved to Green Point near the town of Marrawah in north-west Tasmania.

MacDougall died on 1 July 2020.