Brigadier Michael Donald Keen Dauncey, DSO, DL (9 May 1920 – 23 August 2017) was a British Army officer who participated in Operation Market Garden during the Second World War.

On the first day of the operation, 17 September 1944, Dauncey flew a Horsa glider into Arnhem.

With another officer he escaped from a Dutch hospital on a rope of knotted sheets and hid in the Utrecht English Parsonage for four months.

[3] He was later awarded the Distinguished Service Order for bravery shown during this battle.

[citation needed] In retirement he lived in Uley, Gloucestershire, with his wife Marjorie (née Neep).