Michael David Irving Gass

Sir Michael David Irving Gass, CMG (1960), KCMG (1969), was born in 1916. During the Second World War he served in East Africa and Burma with the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force (1939-1945); he was twice mentioned in despatches.

Gass entered the Colonial Administrative Service in 1939. He was posted to the Gold Coast where he held the positions of Assistant District Commissioner, District Commissioner (1945), Administrative Officer, class II (1951), Administrative Officer, class I (1953), Assistant Regional Officer in Ashanti (1953), and Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of the Interior (1956-1958).

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