Ronald Farquharson, a retired engineer with Dundee Port Authority and a trustee of Dundee Heritage Trust, has died aged 90.
Mr Farquharson was educated at Dundee High School and St Andrews University.
Commissioned into the Royal Engineers, he served in India, Burma and the Far East during the second world war, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He commanded a cavalry troop on the North West Frontier, an Australian company in the rain forests of New Guinea and a battalion of engineers in India.
During the recapture of the Burmese city of Mandalay from the Japanese, he commanded the divisional engineers.
Mr Farquharson went on to be appointed resident engineer at Dundee Port Authority and oversaw the construction of the Queen Elizabeth wharf.
He then spent 20 years as a consulting engineer on projects across Scotland and Northern Ireland before returning to the port, where he was engineer during major developments for the oil industry.
Mr Farquharson, a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, retired in 1985.
His interests included golf and angling and he was a member of the Panmure, Barry, and Kirriemuir golf clubs and Dundee West End and Monikie angling clubs.
A founder member of Claverhouse Rotary Club, Mr Farquharson was awarded the Paul Harris fellowship for his contribution to international understanding.
He was also a member of the Bonnetmakers Craft, one of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee, and was a founder trustee of Dundee Heritage Trust, which looks after the Discovery and Verdant Works.