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ROLL OF HONOUR

HRBROnTH HMD DISTRICT
1914 : 1919

SECOND EDIT J ON.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. BUNCLE & CO.
MARKET PLACE, ARBROATH.

THANKFULLY, proudly, lovingly, we, People of Arbroath,
have made this Roll wherein are inscribed the names of
those our brothers who have died in a great cause.
They who are in this Book enrolled are set apart from
those who have received all other battle honours by that
frontier which runs through the Valley of the Shadow ; by
that No-Man's Land which divides the Battlefields from the
Threshold of Valhalla and the Fields of Elysium : for herein are to be
found those only who, having paid the highest price, have earned the
highest reward.

Far be it from anyone by lightest word or thought to dim the
lustre of those shining honours worthily conferred by men ; of which
the foremost is that Cross bestowed " For Valour " only, which whoso
wins and wears is ever after regarded by his fellows as ennobled : still
less would one detract from the fair renown of those who have yielded
up agility of limb or clearness of sight or health or vigour that their
country might gain in like measure as they sacrificed.

But, high above all, enthroned like Cherubim in the superior
galleries, are they who gave all that was theirs to give ; and so giving,
have gained that which whosoever will gain must give and suffer as
they gave and suffered — that peace which passeth all understanding :
who, having " outsoared the shadow of our night " and passed beyond
all earthly dignities, have assuredly received the freedom of that city
whose builder and maker is God.

Ye lie, ye lads of ours, in Flanders, in Artois and in Picardy,
where from your dust, mingled with that of the heroes of Crecy and

Agincourt, shall grow lilies upon whose petals will be written
" Faithful unto Death " in characters of gold ; in Palestine, where your
bones share with the dauntless Crusaders, with Abraham and with
David and the prophets and righteous men of old, that place of
holiest sepulture ; your graves are on the rocky hillsides in rugged
Macedonia, whither ye had gone, like Saint Paul before you, " assuredly
gathering that the Lord had called him," to help the afflicted and to
rescue the oppressed ; ye rest in the land in the Middle of the Rivers,
where the sun rose on the morning of Time and God saw everything
that He had made, and, behold, it was very good ; deep in the dim
silences of the mighty ocean ye sleep until the sea shall give up its dead.

But the memory of your unfaltering courage and your unswerving
faithfulness shall live for evermore.

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Lord God of Heaven, who watched Thy soldiers falling,
Weary, and worn, and wounded in the strife;

Thou who saw all — the sacrifice, the Borrow —
Now hast Thou called Thy sons to perfect life!

Lord God of Battles, earthly life dies fighting ;

Peace follows pain, as night is killed Dy day ;
And Thy true soldiers, who, like Christ, are victors,

Deem all attained who conquer in the fray.

Lord God Almighty. Thy Son's mother quailing.
Sank neath the cross — her dear Son crucified I

But at His tomb an angel voice triumphant
Broke the deep gloom — " Arisen, glorified I "

Lord God our Father, gather in Thy mercy

All these Thy sons and those who love them here ;

Then when the Last Post sounds on life's grim battle
Show us Thy Heart, Lord, banishing all fear

A.L.C.

ROLL OF HONOUR

L-CPL. R. L. BANNERMAN, B.W.

PTE. J. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal Robert L. Ban-
neeman, Black Watch, twenty-seven
years of age. son of John Bannerman,
21 Fergus Square, Arbroath, was em-
ployed, before joining the army, as a
blacksmith with Mi- Wilson at Pits-
candly, near Forfar. In March 190n
he joined the colours as a private in
the Blaok Watch. He wTas stationed
at Perth, Fort George, and Curragii
Camp in Ireland. In February 1907
he went with his regiment to India,
and was there stationed at various
places, including Peshawar, Sial-
kote, and Calcutta. He took part in
the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, and
returned home, time-expired, in De-
cember 1912. Being on the reserve he
was called up on the outbreak of hos-
tilities and crossed to France almost
immediately. He was probably the
first Arbroath soldier to fall, as he
was killed in action at the battle of
the Aisne on the 14th of September
1914. His commanding officer

wrote : — ' ' He was killed while con-
trolling the fire of his men with the
greatest coolness and disregard of
danger. I had always the greatest
admiration for him as a fine leader.

Private John G. Smith, 1st Blaok
Watch, 41 St Mary Street, Arbroath,
thirty-four years or age, was a son of
Charles Smith, seaman, 16 Millgate
Loan. He married Charlotte Emma
Wood, and left two sons. He had
been eight years in the army and
was a reservist in the Black
Watch, which he had joined shortly
before the South African War. He
served all through that campaign,
and concluded an honourable record
of service by having awarded to him
the South Africa 1901-02 medal, and
the medal with four bars for
engagements in the Transvaal,
Orange Free State, and Cape
Colony. At the time he was
mobilised for active service, Private
Smith was employed with Messrs W.
Briggs & Sons, Ltd., at their chemir-
cal works, Elliot. He was recalled
to the colours on the day that war
was declared with Germany, and was
among the first to go to France. He
took part in the first encounters
which British troops had with the
enemy, and was killed on the 15th
of September 1914 during the memor-
able retreat from Mons.

PTE. F. ROBERTS, A. & S. H.

PTE. J. S. SMITH, CAMERONS.

Private Frank Roberts, 2nd
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
was the son of James Roberts, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-three years of
age, and his home was at 45 Mill-
gate Loan. He married Johan Burn,
and left two sons and three daugh-
ters. Private Roberts joined the
army in 1902, and after serving foT
three years was put on the reserve.
He was employed at Millgate Tan-
work when he was called up for active
service in August 1914. Amongst
the first to< go to France, he took
part in the retreat from Mons, and
was killed in action near Lille on the
21st of October 1914. His fate for
some time was uncertain. Some
months later, however, information
was received of his death in a letter
from Corporal Dunbar belonging to
the same battalion, and who, having
been made a prisoner and was then
at a camp in Gottingen, Germany,
wrote : — "As I do not belong
to the same company, I made in-
quiries, and the statements of men
who belong to Private Roberts' sec-
tion leave no doubt that he met a
hero's death near Lille."

Private Joseph Swankie Smith,
1st Cameron Highlanders, was the
son of Charles Smith 8 Marketgate,
Arbroath. He was thirty-six years
of age and unmarried. He was on
the reserve, as he had joined thei
army during the Boer War, and had
served in South Africa, Gibraltar,
and Malta. When he was mobilised on
the outbreak of war, Private Smith
was a factory worker with Messrs
David Corsar & Sons, Ltd. He went
to France with his battalion in
August 1914, and was killed in action
at the battle of the Aisne.

PTE. DAVID CHRISTISON, B.W.

Private David Christison, 1st
Black Watch, was the nephew of
James Christison, Detham Mill, and
grandson of Mrs H. Christison, Ar-
broath. He was twenty -eight years
of age, and was employed at Dens
Iron Works. He was a reservist,
and had served five years in India.
He was posted as missing on the 11th
of November 1914, and it was after-
wards presumed that he had been
killed in action on that date.

STOKER ROBERT SMITH, R.N.

CPL. RITCHIE, BLACK WATCH.

Ist-Class Stoker Robert Smith,
H.M.S. Hawke, who was twenty-
seven years of age, was the son of
William Smith, farmer, East Ward,
Carmyllie. He joined the navy in
1906, and was a reservist. In 1910
he was one of the crew of H.M.S.
Bedford when that vessel went
ashore in Korea Strait, and he very
narrowly escaped with his life on that
occasion. Stoker Robert Smith was
of a very- cheery disposition, and was
very popular in the service. After
leaving the navy and being put on
the reserve, he was employed as an
attendant in Hawk head Asylum,
near Glasgow. When mobilised on
the outbreak of war he joined H.M.S.
Hawke, and was lost when that ill-
fated vessel was torpedoed on the
15th of October 1914. A brother
of Stoker Smith was also in the
navy.

FrE. JOHN MITCHELL, B.W.

Private John Mitchell, 1st
Black Watch, son of Mrs Mitchell,
Frioekheim, was killed in action
during the Mons retreat.

Corporal William Ritchie, 1st
Black Watch, Anderson's Buildings,
Inverkeilor, was the son of James
Ritchie, farm grieve, Rosehill, and
brother of Mrs Ramsay, Bandoch,
Inverkeilor. Corporal Ritchie was
twenty-four years of age, and un-
married. He was employed as a
porter at Arbroath Railway Station,
and was a member of the Railway
Section of the Arbroath Miniature
Rifle Club. In 1911 he joined the
army as a private in the 1st Black
Watch, and on the outbreak: of war
he went to France with the first
Expeditionary Force from Aldersbot.
He died of wounds in France on the
15th of October 1914. Corporal
Ritchie had six brothers serving.

PTE. CHAS. MACDONALD, B.W.

Private Charles Macdonald,
Black Watch, 3 South Grimsby, Ar-
broath, twenty-nine years of age,
had served in the Royal Highlanders
and was called up as a reservist on
the outbreak of war. He died in
Boulogne on the 7th of November
1914 from wounds received in action.

2nd-LIEUT. WEBSTER, GORDONS.

PTE. JOHN SMART, GORDONS.

Second-Lieutenant Joseph F.
Webster, Gordon Highlanders, was
the second son of Sir Francis Webster
of Ashbrook, Arbroath. He was
twenty-two years of age, and was at
Cambridge when he accepted a com-
mission in the 60th Rifles. He was
transferred to the 3rd Black Watch,
in which he got his commission and
was subsequently attached to the 2nd
Gordon Highlanders. After a few
weeks' training he was ordered to
France, and was killed in an attack
on Zaandvoorde Ridge on the 30th
October 1914. He was mentioned

in despatches for his initiative and
gallantry on 26th October. A
platoon was driven from its trench.
Captain Gordon reported that during
the retirement " the men got very
much scattered, and many were hit.
Taking seven men with him, Lieu-
tenant Webster jumped out from the
trench he was in, dashed forward
under very heavy fire, rallied the
men he could find, and re-occupied
the trench. But for his coolness and
bravery the enemy might easily have
taken the trench and thus made the
situation very critical."

Private John Hay Smart, 1st
Gordon Highlanders, 39 Oulloden
Road, Arbroath, thirty -two years of
age, was the son of Alexander Smart,
and of his wife Barbara Finlayson,
Muirside, Kinnell, Friockheim. He
maixied Jean Bennet Duncan, and
left one daughter. He was employed
as a sawyer at the Arbroath Saw-
mills. In September 1899 he joined
the army as a private in the 1st Gor-
don Highlanders and was called up
as a reservist on the 5th of August
1914. He was then drafted to
France, where after only two months'
service he died of wounds at Bethune
on the 26th of October 1914.

SEAMAN FRANKLIN GRAY, R.N.

Seaman Franklin Gray, Royal
Navy, son of Charles Gray, 44 High
Street, Arbroath, was on board
H.M.S. Monmouth, one of the two
cruisers which were lost during the
naval engagement off Coronel, Chile,
on the 1st of November 1914. He
was seventeen years of age, and had
been eighteen months in the navy and
was registered as a "first-class boy."

PTE. FARQUHAR, CAMERONS.

L-CPL. DAVID STEPHEN, B.W.

Private Samuel Farquhar,
Queerrs Own Cameron Highlanders,
9 Millgate Loan, Arbroath, was the
son of Andrew Farquhar, 20 Cock-
burn Street, Falkirk. He was thirty-
four years of age, and had married
Agnes Coull. He enlisted in the

Cameron s before the South African
War. When called up as a re-
servist on the 5th of August 1914 lie
was employed at the Dens Iron
Works. Private Farquhar left for
France, went through the Mons re-
treat, and was killed in action on the
2nd of November 1914.

PTE. MITCHELL, BLACK WATCH.

Private Robert Mitchell, 1st
Black Watch, was the son of James
Mitchell and of his wife Margaret
Stephen, Castl© Street, Friockheim.
He was twenty-five years of age and
unmarried. In 1907 he joined the
army as a private in the 1st Black
Watch. He was on the reserve, and
was employed as a bleacher at the
outbreak of hostilities. He was
killed in action at Zonnebeke on
the 11th of November 1914.

Lance-Corpl. David M. Stephen,
A Company of the 1st Black Watch,
was the son of George Stephen and
of his wife Jessie Moir, 55 Dishland
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
two years of age and unmarried, and
was at one time employed as a
ploughman at Leysmill. He joined
the army as a private in 1910, and
had served for four years and been
promoted Lanoe^Corporal when war
broke out. He died oif wounds on the
2nd of November 1914 at Colchester.

SGT. BROWN, LONDON SCOTTISH

Sergeant Norman M'Leod Brown,
London Scottish (T.F.), twenty-seven
years of age, was a nephew of Mrs
Aitken, Sandhutton, Arbroath, witli
whom he lived for some years. He
was in the India Office, and went
to France in 1914 as a Corporal,
was promoted Sergeant at the front,
and at the time of his death had been
recommended for a commission.
Sergeant Brown was shot by a
sniper at Givenchy on the 24th of
December 1914, and was buried in
the cemetery there.

L-CPL. GLEN, BLACK WATCH.

PTE DAVIDSON, SCOTS GUARDS.

Lance-Corporai, James GlTen, 1st
Black Watch, was a son of Joseph
Glen, 33 Sidney Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty -one years of age, and
was unmarried. He was an appren-
tice turner in the employment of
Messrs Douglas Fraser & Sons. Ho
was a well-known footballer, and
played in the Arbroath Fail-field
Club, and was -a member of the team
which won the Arbroath and District
Cup, the Newgate Cup, and were
Melvin League champions in 1911-12.
Lance-Corporal Glen was a member
of the Territorial Force, having
joined in July 1909 as a private in
the Third Battalion of the Black
Watch (Special Reserve). He was
mobilised as a reservist four days
after the outbreak of hostilities.
He was transferred to the 1st
Black Watch, and went to France
with that Battalion at the beginning
of September 1914. He took part in
the battles of the Marne and the
Aisne, and oame through scathless
the historic stand made by the Black
Watch in the latter engagement, but
fell in action on 31st October 1914 at
the first battle of Ypres.

Private Thomas B. Davidson, 1st
Battalion Scots Guards, was the son
of Mrs R. W. Milne, 10 Wallace
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
one years of age, and had just come
home from Ontario when war broke
out, and he enlisted in the Scots
Guards. He was posted "missing"
on the 11th of November 1914, and
had since been reported killed on
that date.

SERGT. doig, black watch.

Sergeant Doig, 1st Battalion
Black Watch, whose widow and four
children live in Carnoustie, was a
son of Sergeant Doig, of the Forfar
Town Constabulary. He was a re-
servist and a police constable. On
the 2nd of November 1914 Sergeant
Doig was wounded in the shoulder,
and advised to go to the base hospital
for treatment. When a little dis-
tance from the firing line he returned
to the trenches for his haversack in
which were some souvenirs which he
did not wish to lose. As he set foot
in the trenches a shell killed him in-
stantaneously.

PTE. LINDSAY, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. GRAHAM, BLACK WATCH.

Pbivate Alexander Lindsay, 1st
Black Watch, 36 Fergus Square, Ar-
broath, was the son of James Gunn
Lindsay and of his wife Elizabeth
Robertson. He was twenty-nine
years of age and had married Maggie
Collins, and left one son. In 1904 he
joined the 1st Black Watch, and was
a postman at the Arbroath Post
Office when he was called up as a
reservist. He took part in the fight-
ing at the Marne, waa reported miss-
ing on the 11th of November 1914,
and was presumed to have been
killed in the first battle of Ypres.

SGT. FALCONER, ROYAL SCOTS.

Lance - Sergeant William Fal-
coner, Royal Scots, Kinnaird Street,
Arbroath, was twenty-nine years of
age. He bad been in the army for
twelve years, during five of which he
had served in India. He was wounded
at Mons, taken prisoner, and died
from his wounds on the 28th of
August 1914. News of his death was
learned only on the entry of our
troops into St Quentin, where he had
been detained as a prisoner.

Private James Graham, 2nd Black
Watch, thirty-four years of age, was
the son of John and Ann Graham,
14 East Mill Wynd, Arbroath. He
married Maria Izatt, who was living
at Bareilly, India, at the time of her
husband's death. Private Graham
joined the 1st Black Watch in 1901,
but two years later was transferred
to the 2nd Battalion, and went with
that battalion to India, where he
served for eleven years. He left
India in 1914 with the first contin-
gents, and was killed in action on
the 15th of November 1914. Private
Graham had two brothers serving at
the front with the Black Watch, one
in the 5th Battalion, and another,
who had been wounded, in the 3rd.

PTE. WALTON, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private Arthur Walton, Royal
Scots, twenty-nine years of age, son
of Mrs Walton, 75 East High Street.
Forfar, was a native of Arbroath.
He was married, and was stationed
at Devonport when he was called up
on the outbreak of war. Private
Walton was killed in action in 1914.

COL.-SGT. GLASS, BLACK WATCH

PTE. G. BELL. BLACK WATCH.

Colour-Sergeant Victor Glass.
5th Blaok Watch, 30 Union Street,
Friockheim, was the son of John
Glass and of his wife Isabella Dun-
can, Westgate, Friookheim. He was
thirty-nine years of age, and had
married Betsy Reid, and left three
sons and three daughters. He joined
the army in 1893 and in the Egyptian
a.nd South African wars won four
medals and bars. When he retired
from the army he settled down in his
native village working as a railway
surfaceman. He was still imbued
with the martial spirit, however, and
had joined the Volunteers in 1905,
and the Territorials on their incep-
tion. When war was declared he
was one of the first to volunteer for
service abroad. While guarding an
outpost three of his company had
been wounded. The Captain and
Sergeant Glass set out with stretchers
to bring them in, and on the way the
sergeant was shot. He died on the
8th of December 1914 in the hospital
at Boulogne. His Captain wrote: —
' ' I can only say that a good, brave
man has died fighting bravely and
cheerfully for his country."

Private George Bell, 5th Black
Watch, was a son of Enoch Bell, 12
Rosebank, custodian of the Abbey —
a well-known townsman who had five
sons on active service, four in the
army and one in the navy. Private
Bell was well known in aquatic
circles, and was a member of St
Thomas Swimming Club. He was
twenty-seven years of age, un-
married, and was the first Arbroath
member of the local Territorial
Battalion to make the supreme
sacrifice. A bleacher at Wardmill
Bleaehfield with Messrs Wm. Webstei
& Co., he joined the 5th Black Watch
on the 14th of August 1914, and left
Broughty Ferry with the Battalion
for France in the beginning ol
November 1914. He was in Captain
Duncan's company, and met his death
on the 9th of December of the same
year, falling a victim to a sniper's
bullet as he left a dug-out to carry
out an order which he had received
from his company officer. The an-
nouncement of Private Bell's death
was received with deep regret by his
soldier companions in France as well
as by his many friends in Arbroath.

PTE. MURRAY. BLACK WATCH.

SGT. J. FOX, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Knox Murray,
5th Black Watch, was the youngest
son of Edward Murray, Glasgow,
and of Mrs Murray, stationer,
Gardvne Street Friockheiru. He was
an apprentice engineer with Messrs
Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd., Ar-
broath. He had joined the Territorial
Force in 1912 as a private in the 5th
Black Watch and after war was de-
clared went with his battalion to
France. He had been working in
the trenches under the direction ot
an engineer when a bullet from one
of the enemy's snipers struck him
in the chest. Lieutenant Bruce-

Gardyne, who was near, attended to
the wounded lad and had him at once
taken back to the aid-post. He was
afterwards conveyed to the hospital,
where he died on the 5th of January
1915. He was buried at Estaires.
Private Murray, who was only nine-
teen years of age, was a bright, in-
telligent, cheery-hearted lad. He
was a great favourite among his
fellows, and the whole village felt
keenly the death of the young
soldier. His Captain wrote of him
in terms of high appreciation.

Sergeant James Fox, 1st Black
Watch, 3 Ladyloan, Arbroath,
twenty-two years of age, was the
son of David Fox, shoemaker,
and of his wife Mary Reid. At one
time a ploughman at Downfield,
Dundee, he joined the Territorials
in 1911 as a private in the 1st Black
Watch. He was mobilised when

war broke out, and from Aldershot
he went to France with his battalion
in August 1914. Sergeant Fox
died of wounds at Choques on the
26th of January 1915. '

PTE. WILLIAM CLARK, R.S.F.

Private William Clark, 2nd
Royal Scots Fusiliers, was the son
of George Clark, 31 Ann Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-four years
of age, and was a very well-known
and popular member in local foot-
ball circles. Private Clark was
supposed to he a prisoner of war,
but Sergeant Cairns, who was in the
same company and was a prisoner in
Mecklenburg, wrote to say that Pri-
vate William Clark was killed in
action on the 30th of October 1914.

PTE. W.CLARK, BLACK WATCH

PTE. J. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Clark, 5th
Black Watch, Kinnaird Street,
Friockheim, twenty-one years of age,
was the son of Mrs Clark, Egypt,
Farnell. Previous to enlisting he
was an apprentice blacksmith em-
ployed by Alexander M'Kay, Friock-
heim. He was a much-liked man in
the village, and had interested him-
self in many of its organisations.
He was a member of the Territorial
Force, having joined the Friockheim
Company of the 5th Black Watch in
1911, and he went with them to
France. On the 5th of February
1915, the day of his death, he was
one of a working party behind the
lines not more than two hundred
yards from the enemy. One of his
comrades had been wounded just
previously, and Private Clark was
attending to him and calling up the
stretcher-bearers when lije was shot
through the head and killed instan-
taneously. He was buried not far
from the place where he fell. Pte.
Clark, who was unmarried, was the
third of the Friockheim men of his
battalion to lay down his life fight-
ing for his King and country.

Private John Smith, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of John Walker
Smith and of his wife Martha Dun-
can, 9 Barngreen, Arbroath. He
was a moulder at the Dens Iron
Works and was only eighteen years
of age. He joined the Territorial
Division of the 5th Black Watch in
1913. On the night of the 6th of Feb-
ruary 1915, while the section was,
going out of the trenches to take
up a position as an outpost, Private
Smith was wounded, and died on his
way to hospital. He was buried by
the Chaplain of the Forces be-
side a comrade from Montrose in a
little cemetery about four miles
from the place where he fell.

ACTING SGT. MARSHALL. O.G.

Acting Sergeant Frederick
Livingstone Marshall, 1st Cold-
stream Guards, was the son of H.
Marshall, Hull, an old Arbroathian.
He had been through the South
African War, and held two medals
and five bars. He rejoined the colours
in August 1914, and was killed in
action on the 25th of January 1915.

PTE. H.SAVEGE, BLACK WATCH. PTE. R. JACK, BLACK WATCH.

Private Horatio Savege, 5th
Black Watch, twenty-one years of
age, was a son of Thomson Savege,
painter and decorator, High Street,
Arbroath. He joined the Arbroath
High School Section of the 5th Black
Watch at the outbreak of war, and
went to France in November 1914.
When King George visited his
army in France in December, Pri-
vate Savege was one of the two
soldiers of the Battalion who were
presenued to him when he expressed
a wish to inspect the winter clothing
of the 5th Black Watch. On the 5th
of February 1915 he was killed
suddenly, and was buried in a
beautiful orchard near the place
where he fell, amid the roar of
artillery from both sides. Captain
J. A. Wilson wrote: — "It is
a great blow to me to lose such a
keen soldier as your son proved
himself to be. So pleased was I
with his behaviour that I had sent
in his name for promotion." Pri-
vate Savege had three brothers in
the army, one of whom, Lieutenant
O. F. Savege, was awarded the
Military Cross.

Private Robert L. R. Jack, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of John
C. Jack and of his wife Helen Blair,
56 Helen Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-one years of age, and was
employed at Kelly Bleachfield. He
enlisted in August 1914, and went
overseas in November. He served in
France until the 9th of February
1915, when he was wounded and
taken to No. 6 General Hospital. He
died there on the 14th of February,
and was buried in the cemetery at
Merville, near Bethune.

PTE. R. WHITE, BLACK WATCH.

Private Robert White, 5th Black
Watch, nineteen years of age, was
the son of Robert White, 21 Ernest
Street, Arbroath. He was employed
as an iron dresser at Dens Iron
Works. He joined the army on the
5th of August 1914 as a private in
the 5th Black Watch, and went to
France in November. Private White
was killed in action in France on
the 9th of May 1915— that never-to-
be-forgotten day in the annals of
the gallant 5th Black Watch.

PTE. DUNDAS, BLACK WATCH.

CPL. EDWIN THOMSON, B.W.

Private John Milne Dundas, 5th
Black Watch, was the third son of
David Dundas, Roys ton, Arbroath.
He was only nineteen years of age
and was an all-round athlete. He
played in the 2nd XI. of the Ar-
broath United Cricket Club, and was
also a prominent player in the High
School football team. Private

Dundas was employed as a clerk in
a merchant's office in Dundee when
war was declared, and he at once
gave up his civil work and volun-
teered for service in the army.
Along with many other former pupils
of the Arbroath High School he
joined the High School Section of the
5th Black Watch in September 1914,
and after about a couple of months'
training proceeded from Broughty
Ferry with the battalion to France.
He came uninjured through all the
fighting in which the battalion took
part during the first months of the
war, and was killed in action at the
battle of Neuve Chapelle on the 10th
of March 1915, while he was engaged
with others of his company in
digging trenches to secure the
advantage gained in the battle.

Corporal Edwin Thomson, 5th
Black Watch, was a son of David
Thomson and of his wife Mary Ann
Jack, 100 High Street, Arbroath. He
was thirty years of age and un-
married, and was an assistant in a
large drapery firm in London. When
home on holiday in September 1914
he joined the 5th Black Watch as a
private. He was twice promoted and
went to France on the 1st of No-
vember 1914. Corporal Thomson
died in a field ambulance of wounas
received in action at Neuve Chapelle
on the 12th of March 1915. His
platoon commander said he was a
great favourite with them all, and
that he was a fine soldier, always
ready and willing to do his very best.

PTE. STRAOHAN, BLACK WATCH

Private Thomas Strachan, 1st
Black Watch, 39 Culloden Eoad, Ar-
broath, was thirty-two years of age.
He was married and left one child.
Private Strachan had served for
several years in India and was a re-
servist. He was killed in action
early in the war.

PTE. MELVILLE, BLACK WATCH

A.B. WILLIAM FLEMING, R.N.

Private William G. Melville,
5th Black Watch, was the son of Mrs
Mary Melville, 20 Jamieson Street,
Arbroath. He was nineteen years
of age and had nearly finished his
apprenticeship as a tailor with Mr
C. Y. Myles. He joined the Terri-
torial Force in 1912 as a private in
the 5th Black Watch. He left with
his battalion for France in October

1914, and was killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle on the 10th of March

1915. In writing to his mother, his
Captain said: — "I was close beside
your son when he was killed. He
was out with the working party along
with me, was struck through the
back of the neck and killed instan-
taneously. He was my servant for
some time, and we always found him
a very willing lad. In the trenches he
was always very keen on his work,
and always cheerful and full of pluck.
He was a great favourite amongst
the men of his own platoon, and his
death will be much regretted by
everyone, and especially by myself,
as he was at one time in the
battalion signallers, and I knew him
to be a keen soldier."

Able- Seaman William Wilson
Fleming, H.M.S. "Goliath," who
was thirty-two years of age, was the
son of John Webber Fleming and of
his wife Annie Boyle, 69 Guthrie
Port, Arbroath. He married Beatrice
Annie Gaynor, and left two sons
and one daughter. He joined the
navy in 1901, when quite young.
Having passed for able-seaman and
having served for nearly thirteen
years, he joined the Royal Fleet
Reserve. For a short time he was
an auxiliary postman at Arbroath,
but had been transferred to the
regular staff at Forfar when war
broke ouii and he was called up.
He was lost when H.M.S. "Goliath"
was torpedoed in the Dardanelles on
the 12th of March 1915.

PTE. ARTHUR, BLACK WATCH.

Private W. Arthur, 1st Blaok
Watch, Rossie Street, Arbroath, was
thirty-two years of age. He was a
reservist, and before the war was^
employed as a dyeworker in Dundee.
Private Arthur was killed in action
at Ypres on the 9th of May 1915.

PTE. ALEX. SMITH, CAMERONS.

PTE. D. LAMB, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Smith, 4tli
Cameron Highlanders, nineteen years
of age, was the eldest son of James
Smith and of his wife Hannah
Robertson, Leytonstone, and grand-
son of Alexander Smith, at one time
English Master in the Arbroath Higli
School. He was a clerk in the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company. He joined the 4th Cameron
Highlanders, and after training at
Bedford, went with his battalion to
France in February 1915. On the eve
of the battle of Neuve Chapelle
volunteers for the Machine Gun Sec-
tion were called for, and Private
Smith was one of the men to respond
for vhis dangerous duty. In its dis-
charge he was severely wounded in
the right shoulder and lung, and
was brought into hospital on Thurs-
day, 11th March. On Monday he
was sufficiently strong to dictate a
letter home, but the chaplain's warn-
ing note at the end helped to prepare
his parents for what was to fallow.
He died the same night, the 15th
of March 1915, and was buried
in the Communal Cemetery at
Merville.

Private David Lamb, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Robert Lamb
and of his wife Betsy Orrock, 3
Lillies Wynd, Arbroath. He was
twenty years of age, and was for-
merly an irondresser in the employ-
ment of the Keith &. Blackman Com-
pany, Ltd. After the declaration of
war he joined the 5th Black Watch
as a private. He was in training for
a few months at Forfar and
Broughty Ferry, and left for France
in December 1914. He was wounded
at the battle of Neuve Chapelle, and
died two days later, on the 13th of
March 1915, in No. 10 Stationary
Hospital. He was buried in the
French "Souvenir" Cemetery,
about a mile and a half from the
town of St Omer.

PTE. D. HUTTON, BLACK WATCH

Private David Hutton, Black
Watch, was the son of Mrs Hutto i,
46 Marketgate, Arbroath. At the
outbreak of war he came from India
to France with his battalion, and
died in No. 11 General Hospital in
November 1914.

PTE. W. SKEA, BLACK WATCH. PTE. J. LAW, BLACK WATCH.

Private W. Skea, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of James Skea,
21 Hannah Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-three years of age and
unmarried, and had been employed
as a moulder by Messrs Keith
& Blackman. In October 1914 he
joined up as a private in £he 5th
Black Wadch. After being in France
for five months Private Skea died of
wounds on the 21st of March 1915 in
No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne.

CAPT. HENDERSON-HAMILTON.

Captain Charles Henderson-
Hamilton, 12th Scottish Rifles,
attached to 1st King's Own Scottish
Borderers, was the eldest son of the
Rev. C. C. Henderson-Hamilton, of
Dalserf, and grandson of the Rev.
William Henderson, formerly of S.
Mary's Church, Arbroath. While
at Oxford he was a noted one-mile
runner, winning a British Univer-
sities' record. He got his captaincy
in February 1915, and was killed in
action at the Dardanelles in the fol-
lowing August. His younger brother
was killed in France a month later.

Private James Law, 5th Black
Watch, 18 Smithy Croft, Arbroath,
thirty-six years of age, was the son
of John Law, potato dealer. He

married Christina Clark and left two
sons. Previous to the outbreak of
war he was employed as a labourer
at the Arbroath Sawmills. He joined
the army in August 1914, and after
training at Broughty Ferry went to
France. He was wounded in Novem-
ber 1914, and was discharged from
hospital in December, and after a
short leave was sent to Hawick,
where the second line was stationed.
Whilst there he> heroically rescued
from drowning, at great danger to
his own life, a comrade of the 4th
Black Watch who had fallen into a
rushing mill lade. A few weeks

later, on the 28th of March 1915,
Private Law died at the Depot in
Hawick from accidental choking.

PRIVATE G. MASTERTON, B.W.

Private Gilbert^ Masterton, 4th
Black Watch, was the son of Mrs
Masterton, Lochty Street, Carnous-
tie. He was killed in action in 1915.

PTE. N. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. J. ALLAN, LONDON REGT.

Private Norman J. A. Smith, 5th
Black Watch, who was twenty years
of age, was the son of Alexander
Sorley Smith, ironmonger, and of his
wife Katherine Farquhar, 1 Dal-
housie Place, Arbroath. He was one
of the Arbroath High School Section
of the 5th Black Watch (Territorials)
who joined the colours on the out-
break of the war. Private Smith was
a well-known member of the Arbroath
United Cricket Club, and was a
capable bowler and a very promising
batsman. He was the second mem-
ber of the Arbroath United Cricket
Club to fall in the war. He was on
the staff of Messrs Frank Stewart
Sandeman & Sons, manufacturers,
Dundee, when he volunteered for
service, and enlisted in F Company
of the 5th Black Watch in September
1914. Private- Smith went to France
with the Battalion in November.
Early in the following year he was
severely wounded in the head by a
bullet passing through a loophole
into the trench in which he was. He
became unconscious and was taken
to the hospital, and died there on the
following day, the 11th of April 1915.

Private James Kenneth Allan.
7th Battalion, London Regiment,
eighteen years of age, was the son of
Robert M. Allan and of his wife
Hannah Kate Lang, Bowes Park,
London, and a grand-nephew of
Patrick Allan Fraserof Hospitalfield,
Arbroath. He and his brother,
Private Fraser Allan, belonged to the
7th Battalion City of London Rifles.
They wished to join the London Scot-
tish, but that famous corps was full.
Private Allan left for France in March
1915. A few weeks afterwards, on the
3rd of April 1915, he died of wounds
received in action at Festubert. He
was buried at Bethune Cemetery.

PTE. ALEX. VALENTINE, B.W.

Private Alexander Valentine,
1st Black Watch, was the son of
David Valentine, 25 Park Street, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-eight years
of age, had married, and left three
children. As a member of the re-
serve, Private Valentine was called
up as soon as war was declared. He
was killed in action on the 25th of
January 1915.

PTE. D. KYDD, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. W. DONALD. CANADIANS.

Private David Kydd, 1st Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
son of David Burness Kydd and of
his wife Annie Cowie, 16 Chalmers
Street, Arbroath. He was a gar-
dener at Rossie Castle previous to
joining the army in November 1914.
After five months' training at Nigg,
lie went to France. He had been
there scarcely a month when he was
killed by a sniper whilst on outpost
duty on the 23rd of April 1915. The
Chaplain wrote: — "David Kydd
was much respected by his comrades,
and gave promise of being a good
soldier."

PTE. M'GREGOR, BLACK WATCH

Private Thomas M'Gregor, 5th
Black Watch, was a son of David
M'Gregor, bla.cksmith, 35 Leonard
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
one years of age, and was an iron-
dresser with Messrs Keith & Black-
man Co., Ltd. Private M'Gregor
had three brothers with the colours,
one of whom was fighting alongside
of him when he was killed on the
31st of January 1915.

Private William Donald, Cana-
dian Scottish, Winnipeg, Canada,
was the son of Mrs D. Buchan,
Smithy ton, Guthrie. He was forty-
six years of age, and was unmarried.
He was a motorman in Winnipeg
when he joined the Canadian Scottish
at the outbreak of war, and went
over to France. He was posted as
missing on the 23rd of April 1915,
and later reported killed on that date.

CPL. WILLIAM ROSE, K.O.S.B.

Corporal William Rose, King's
Own Scottish Borderers, thirty-five
years of age, was the son of William
Rose, 18 Bridge Street, Arbroath.
He joined the regular army when a
young man, and had seen twelve
years' service in the K.O.S.B., being
for a number of years stationed in
India. He was working in Stirling
when war broke out, and was im-
mediately recalled to the colours and
sent to France. He was killed in
action at Ypres on the 13th of
November 1914. His younger

brother, Harry, was a prisoner of
war for nine months.

PTE. FINCHER, AUSTRALIANS.

PTE. ARTHUR BINNIE, A.&S.H.

Private Charles Fincher, 5th
Battalion of the Australian Imperial
Force, was the son of Mr and Mrs
George Fincher, Lauriston, Victoria,
Australia. His mother was the
daughter of Mr Nicoll, 2 Gayfield,
Arbroath. Before leaving Australia
he was in the South Melbourne Gas
Works, Victoria. On the 14th of
August 1914 he joined the 5th Bat-
talion of the Australian Imperial
Force. At a dinner given by the
Essendon Football Club to seven of
their players going to the front a
place was left vacant with Private
Charles Fincher' s name attached as
a. mark of respect to Ms memory. He
was twenty-three years of age, saw
service in Egypt with the First Aus-
tralian Contingent, and afterwards
went with them to Gallipoli. He was
killed in action on the 25th of April
1915, the day of the landing at
Gallipoli. Two of Private Fincher' s
brothers, Lieutenant J. F. Fincher,
who was twice mentioned in des-
patches, and Lieutenant George F.
Fincher, also mentioned in des-
patches, served in Egypt and France
from 1915.

Private Arthur Kinnear Binnie,

7th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, 62 Port Street, Stirling, was
the son of George Binnie, who was
store-keeper for Messrs Dodds &
Bathie, and of his wife Margaret
Adamson, West Grimsby, Arbroath.
He was nineteen years of age, and
when war was declared was working
as a steel moulder with the firm of
Messrs Beardmore, Glasgow. He
joined the 5th Black Watch in 1910.
but was transferred to the 7th
A. & S.H. He went over to France
in December 1914, and was killed near
St Julien on the 25th of April 1915.

SERGEANT F. PHIN, GORDONS.

Sergeant Francis David Phin,
8th Battalion of the Gordon High-
landers, who was twenty-seven years
of age, was the eldest son of David
Phin, Huntly, and grandson of
Daniel Bra-celin, Arbroath. He was
employed at the Arbroath Railway
Station for several years. He en-
listed at the outbreak of war, and
had been only two months in France
when he was killed in action in 1915.

PTE. W. JARRETT, SEAFORTHS.

PTE. G. ROSS, BLACK WATCH.

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Private William Webster Jar-
rett, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, who
was thirty-two years of age, lived at
31 Elliot Street, Arbroath, and was
the son of Alexander Jarrett and of
his wife Margaret Kinnear Pearson,
47J Ladyloan. He married Jane
Garden, and left two sons and one
daughter. He enlisted in 1901 in
the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, and
served for seven years. He was em-
ployed by Messrs M'Farlane & Co.,
coal merchants. On the outbreak of
war he was called up and sent to
France. Private Jarrett was killed
in action near St Julien on the 25th
of April 1915. Two of his brothers
served with the Seaforths, and an-
other was in the Black Watch.

PTE. YEAMAN, BLACK WATCH.

Private Edward Yeaman, 1st
Black Watch, was a nephew of Pri-
vate George Muir, 18 Millgate Loan,
Arbroath, who was in the same regi-
ment. Private Yeaman, who was
nineteen years of age, was a miner at
Lochgelly. He was killed in action
near Ypres on the 9th of May 1915.

Private George Ross, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of George Ross
and of his wife Mary Wood, 26
Cairnie Street, Arbroath. He was
eighteen years of age, and before
joining the army in September 1914
he was employed as a moulder at
Westburn Foundry. While cutting
barbed wire in front of the trenches
in France Private Ross was wounded,
and died on the 8th of May 1915. He
was buried in Merville cemetery.
One of his Arbroath comrades writ-
ing of him, said : — ' ' He was one of
the gamest fellows I ever came
across." This was his message to
his mother: — "Bid her goodbye,
and tell her I am not afraid."

PTE. A. NESS, BLACK WATCH.

Private A. Ness, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Mr and Mrs
Ness, Kinloch Street, Carnoustie.
He was employed by the Taymouth
Engineering Company, and was one
of Carnoustie's best amateur foot-
ballers. Private Ness was killed in
action on the 9th of March 1915. An
elder brother was in the R.A.M.C.

PTE. J. WILKIE, CAMERONS.

PTE. A. BEATTS, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Wilkie, 3rd
Cameron Highlanders, aged eighteen
years, elder son of John Wilkie and
Isabella Black Ferguson, Woodville,
Dumbarton, both formerly of Ar-
broath, was an apprentice engineer
and draughtsman with Messrs
Denny, of Dumbarton. He joined
the army on the 8th of January 1915
as a private in the 3rd Cameron
Highlanders, and was subsequently
transferred to the 1st Battalion. He
got three months' training at Inver-
gordon, and was then sent to
Northern France After a fortnight
at the front his battalion, along with
a battalion of the 3rd Black Watch,
was put into the front line and com-
manded to make a bayonet charge on
an enemy trench. A similar attack
by two brigades had been made in
the morning with disastrous results,
and in the later charge the two bat-
talions were practically wiped out.
Private Wilkie was killed in action
on Sunday afternoon, the 9th of May
1915, near Bichebourg St Vaast.
He was shot through the forehead
when within forty yards of the enemy
trench.

Private Alexander Beatts, 1st
Black Watch, son of William Beatts,
35 West Grimsby, Arbroath, was
nineteen years of age, and was em-
ployed at the Dens Iron Works.
He had joined the army four
months before war broke out, and
went to France in 1914. After nine
months' fighting there he was
killed on the 9th of May 1915 at
the battle of Ypres. Private Beatts
had three brothers with the colours.
William and Joseph were also in the
1st Black Watch, and the former was
killed in October 1918. James was
taken prisoner at Mons.

PTE. D. GEEKLE, CANADIANS.

Private David Geekie, Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry,
was the only son of Andrew Geekie,
London, and a grandson of David
Geekie, Beechlea, Carnoustie. Be
was in Canada when war broke out,
and at once enlisted in Princess
Pat's Own, one of the first battalions
of the Dominion's troops to reach
the front. Private Geekie was killed
in the battle of Neuve Chapelle.

PTE. DUNCAN. BLACK WATCH.

PTE. J. MILNE, BLACK WATCH.

Private Hay Duncan, 5th Black
Watch, 34 Ann Street, Arbroath,
was the son of Joseph Duncan, 120
East High Street, Forfar. He was a
butcher with Mr C. Steven, Guthrie
Port, Arbroath. He joined the
Territorials in 1912 as a private in
the oth Black Watch, and was
mobilised on the outbreak of war.
After training in Broughty Ferry he
went over with the first of the Terri-
torial Forces to France in November
1914. While advancing across an
open field Private Duncan was struck
in the foot by a piece of shell, and
when on his way to the dressing
station was hit again and killed on
the 9th of May 1915. He was buried
by men of the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders at Auber Ridge. Pri-
vate Duncan belonged to the Inch-
cape Good Templar Lodge in Ar-
broath. At a meeting the members
recorded that he had been a life-long
abstainer; that he did not forget his
principles in warfare, but diligently
sought to pass them on to others ;
that he was greatly beloved by all
who knew him, and had died as he
lived, a hero for principle.

Private James Milne, Black
Watch, 15 Fergus Street, Arbroath,
twenty-seven years of age, was the
son of William Milne, Glover Street.
H§ married Margaret Anderson and
left three young children. He was
employed at the St Rollox Works,
Lindsay Street, as a canvas beamer.
He joined the army on the 4th of
August 1914 and went over to France
on the 1st of November. Private
Milne was killed in action on the
memorable 9th of May 1915, when
the Black Watch made their his-
toric charge. Their bravery cost
them dearly, but it covered their
gallant regiment with glory.

PTE. BALFOUR, BLACK WATCH.

Private David Balfour, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Mrs Balfour,
" South America," Carnoustie. He
was nineten years of age, and was
employed in the Taymouth Engineer-
ing Works. At the battle of Neuve
Chapelle on the 10th of March 1915
he was hit by a bullet and killed in-
stantaneously He had a high repu-
tation for pluck among his comrades.

ENG.-LIEUT. BEATON, R.N.R.

L/CPL. W. STUART, D.C.M., B.W.

Engineer-Lieutenant H. A. F.
Lindsay Carnegie Beaton, Royal
Naval Reserve, was the elder son
of D. D. Beaton and of his wife
Catherine Robertson Ross, Heather-
cairn, Friockheim. He married Eva
Ferrier, and lived at Union Street,
Friockheim. He served his appren-
ticeship at Dens Iron Works, and
after further experience in Belfast
and Glasgow he received an appoint-
ment as marine engineer on one of
the largest boats of the Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company. In March
1915 he joined the Royal Naval Re-
serve as Engineer-Lieutenant on
H.M.S. "Trent," which at that time
was on active service in the Eastern
Mediterranean. Engineer-Lieutenant
Beaton, who had but a short time
before recovered from an attack of
malarial fever and had probably re-
turned to duty too soon, died of heat-
stroke at Aden on the 15th of May
1915, and was buried in the Maala
Cemetery there. Mr Beaton's ready
resourcefulness in cases of emer-
gency, and his fearless daring, were
evidenced on more than one occasion
when he risked his life to save others.

Lance-Corporal William Stuart,
D.C.M., 1st Black Watch, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, was the son
of William Stuart, 30 St Vigeans
Road, Arbroath. He was thirty

years of age and was unmarried. He
was a reservist, as he had joined the
army in 1913 as a private in the 1st
Black Watch. At the time of his
being called up he was employed on
the Blackall and Wyndorah Railway
in Queensland. Lance-Corporal

Stuart won the Distinguished Con-
duct Medal for devotion to duty on
the 9th of May 1915 at Rue de Bois.
He started playing the pipes the
moment he left the parapet with the
second line, and continued playing
the whole distance to the German
parapet, being fatally wounded dur-
ing the advance. It was presumed
that he died the same day.

PTE. P. MOSTYN, BLACK WATCH

Private Peter Mostyn, 5th Black
Watch, 62 Helen Street, was another
of the Arbroath members of the
5th Black Watch who lost his life
in the battle on the 9th of May 1915.

PTE. SPIERS, BLACK WATCH.

L-CPL. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Spiers, 1st
Battalion of the 5th Black Watch,
was a son of Alexander Spiers and of
his wife Annie Welsh, 29 John Street,
Arbroath. Before being called up he
had been for five years a mercantile
clerk with Messrs David Corsar &
Sons, Ltd. He was a member of the
Territorial Force, which he joined
in 1912 as a private in the Black
Watch. When war broke out he was
immediately mobilised, and after
having undergone four months'
training at Broughty Ferry he went
over to France. Private Spiers had
many exciting experiences and hair-
breadth escapes during his seven
months' service there. One of these
was at Neuve Chapelle, where during
the heavy fighting, when he was
carrying a wounded soldier, a shell
went through his kilt. He was
killed in action at the age of
twenty on the 9th of May 1915 at
Festubert, and was buried in the
Rue Petillion Cemetery. His officer,
writing of his death, said that his
comrades had erected a memorial
cross over the grave of one who had
died so gallantly for his country.

Lance-Corporal Alexander Smith,
1st Black Watch, was the son of Mrs
Smith, 17 Kinnaird Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty years of age and un-
married. At one time he was em-
ployed as a grocer with Messrs Low
& Company, Dunfermline, and after-
wards with the West Port Associa-
tion, Ltd., Arbroath. At the out-
break of war he joined the 1st Black
Watch as a private, and went over
to France, where he was wounded at
La Bassee. He was invalided home,
but on his recovery he returned to
the front, and was killed at Festu-
bert on the 9th of May 1915.

PTE. J. M'INTOSH, CANADIANS.

Private James M'Intosh, 1st
Canadian Battalion, twenty-three
years of age, was the son of George
M'Intosh and of his wife Elizabeth
Shepherd, Arbirlot, near Arbroath.
He was farming in Canada when he
joined the Expeditionary Force. He
served in France, and although no
details regarding his death were re-
ceived it was presumed that he was
killed about the 23rd of April 1915.

PTE. PATTULLO, BLACK WATCH

PTE. H. SPINK, BLACK WATCH.

Private Harry Pattullo, 2nd
Black Watch, was the son of David
Pattullo, 25 Lillies' Wynd, Arbroath.
He was twenty-seven years of age
and was unmarried. At one time lie
was employed at Waulkmills Bleach-
field. Having afterwards gone to
America he came home and joined
the colours in January 1915 as a pri-
vate in the 2nd Black Watch. On
the 9th of May 1915 his company
carried out an attack on the German
trenches, and suffered very heavily.
On the roll being called Private
Pattullo' s name was amongst those
reported missing. Those who re-
turned had little hope of any missing
being left alive under such a fire as
they had met with. On search
parties being sent out Private Pat-
tullo's body was eventually re-
covered. Amongst his effects
brought in and afterwards sent home
was a small Testament, and written
on the back of his pay-book there
was found the following pathetic
message: — "Will you please forward
these papers to my father, and let
him know I died for a good cause,
fighting the dirty Huns."

Private Henry Spink, 5th Black
Watch, 16 Auchmithie, was the son
of James Spink, salmon fisher, 18
Hill Place, Arbroath. He was nine-
teen years of age, and was a farm-
servant at Rosehill when he enlisted
in November 1914. He was wounded
at Fromelles on 9th May 1915.
Notwithstanding his injuries he con-
tinued fighting until he was killed
by a bullet passing through his
chest. Private Spink's brother also
served in the Black Watch.

L.-CPL. S. ESPLIN, CANADIANS.
Lance-Corporal Stewart Esplin,
16th Canadian Scottish, twenty-
seven years of age, was the son of
Mrs Esplin, 39 St Mary Street, Ar-
broath. He was killed in action on
the 22nd of April 1915.

PTE. RENNLE, SCOTS GUARDS.
Private Andrew Rennie, 2nd
Scots Guards, twenty years of age,
belonged to Arbroath, and was a
farm servant at Templeton. He was
killed in action in Franoe in May
1915.

L-CORPL. J. MAXWELL, B.W.

PTE. DAVID DONALDSON, B.W.

Lance-Corporal J. Maxwell, 5th
Black Watch, 41 John Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Mrs C. Kell,
59 Hill Street, Dundee. He was

twenty-eight years of age, and was
unmarried. He was a shoemaker by
trade, and was employed by Mr Colin
Grant at Hill Road Boot Factory.
Lanee-Corporal Maxwell was over six
feet in height, and was an en-
thusiastic player in the Ardenlea
Football Club and trainer of the
Violet Club. He joined the 5th
Black Watch Territorials about 1903
as a private, and for five years had
been a member of the signalling sec-
tion. In November 1914 he went over
to France, and for six months was a
despatch rider, but was afterwards
attached to the telephone service in
the trenches. On the morning of the
9th May 1915 he was wounded in the
hand by a bullet, but stayed in the
trenches till the evening, and it was
while on his way to the dressing
station that he was killed instan-
taneously by a shrapnel shell. A
cross was erected over his grave
which was carefully tended by his
comrades.

Privatb David Donaldson, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of William
Donaldson, March of Lunan, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age
and unmarried, and had been em-
ployed as a farm servant at Irons-
hill, Inverkeilor. On the 9th of
November 1914 he joined up as a
private in the 5th Black Watch, and
was sent to France early in 1915.
Private Donaldson was wounded on
the 9th of May, and was taken to
the hospital at Boulogne, where he
had his legs amputated. He sank
rapidly, however, and died on the
11th of May 1915.

PTE. GEORGE M'GREGOR, B.W

Private George M'Gregor, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of David
M'Gregor, 35 Leonard Street, Ar-
broath. He was 22 years of age, and
was formerly employed as a cycle
mechanic. Private M'Gregor was
killed in action in the battle of
Neuve Chapelle. His brother, also
one of the 5th Black Watch, was
killed at the front, and two other
brothers served with the colours.

CAPT. GUTHRIE, IRISH GUARDS

PTE. J. GRAY, LONDON REGT.

Captain John Neil Guthkie,
younger of Guthrie, Irish Guards,
Guthrie Castle, near Arbroath, was
the eldest son of Captain Guthrie of
Guthrie and of his wife Myra David-
son of Tulloeh. He married Vera,
daughter of John Gordon, and left
no family. Captain Neil Guthrie, who
was twenty-nine years of age, was
heir to the estates of Guthrie and
Gagie. In 1905 he joined the army
as a lieutenant in the 9th (Queen's
Royal) Lancers, was transferred into
the Irish Guards in 1908, and became
Captain in 1913. His coming of age
whilst he was a lieutenant in the
Lancers was marked by great rejoic-
ings, and he was the recipient of
many tokens of goodwill. Shortly
after the outbreak of war he was
seriously wounded in France. He
met his death at Festubert on the
18th of May 1915 while gallantly
leading his men to the attack. Faced
by an inferno of rifle, shell, and
machine gun fire, the heroic officer
went forward unflinchingly until he
was struck and instantly killed by
a shell splinter. His death was
mourned throughout the countryside,

Private James Todd Gray, 7th
City of London Battalion (London
Begiment), Thornton Heath, Lon-
don, was the son of Andrew Gray and
of his wife Sarah Todd, 9 Dishland
Street Arbroath. He was a promis-
ing lad, twenty-one years of age. He
served his apprenticeship with Mr
Guild, hatter. Arbroath, and after-
wards got a post as a shop assistant
in London. He joined the Territorial
Force as a private in the 7th City of
London Battalion, and on the out-
break of war went with his battalion
to France and served as a divisional
scout. He died of wounds on the
25th of September 1915, after the
capture of Loos.

more especially in the villages of
Friockheim and Guthrie, and a
touching memorial service was held
in the Parish Church. His General,
writing of Captain Guthrie, said : —
"He is a great loss to the regiment,
and did splendidly out at the front."
His CO. wrote: — His loss to us is
immense as a soldier and a friend.
He died a gallant soldier."

PTE. J. WATSON, ROYAL SCOTS.

SEAMAN D. STRATHERN, R.N.D.

Private John Watson, 1st Royal
Scots, was the son of John Watson,
engineer, 43 Dishlandtown Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty years of
age, and had been employed by
Messrs Keith & Blackman, Ltd. He
joined the army in November 1914
as a private in the 1st Royal Scots.
He served in France with his bat-
talion, and was killed in action at
Ypres on the 12th of May 1915.

PTE. D. FEARN. BLACK WATCH.

Private David Fearn, 8th Black
Watch, was the son of John Fearn,
gamekeeper on the Panmure estate,
who lived at Salmond's Muir. He
was twenty years of age and was one
of a large number of former pupils of
Arbroath High School who at the out-
break of war joined the colours either
in Regular or Territorial battalions.
Private Fearn was an ardent golfer,
and a popular member of the Ar-
broath Artisan Club, and at the
time of his enlistment he was a golf
club-maker with Mr Robert Simpson,
Carnoustie. He was killed in

action in August 1915.

Leading Seaman David Bell
Strathern, Royal Naval Division,
was the son of David Strathern,
grocer, Dundee, and grandson of
David Bell, woollen manufacturer,
Helen Street, Arbroath. He was
serving his apprenticeship as an en-
gineer, and was not quite nineteen
years of age when he enlisted in the
Royal Naval Division in November
1914. He was promoted leading-
seaman and was afterwards ap-
pointed head scout for the Colling-
wood Battalion on their leaving for
the Dardanelles campaign. During
service there he was killed in action
on the 4th of June 1915.

CPL. KNIGHT, SCOTS GUARDS.

Corporal John Knight, 2nd Scots
Guards, was the son of Robert
Knight, baker, 7 Sharp's Lane,
Lochee, formerly of Arbroath. He
was twenty-three years of age, and
before joining the army was em-
ployed as a moulder at Dens Iron
Works. He was married and left one
child. Corporal Knight was killed
in action on the 16th of May 1915.

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Private Joseph Duncan, 2nd
Gordon Highlanders, son of Edwin
Duncan, retired salmon-fisher, Rose-
berry Cottage, Carnoustie, was
twenty-eight years of age and un-
married. He was well-known in Car-
noustie, where he was for many
years a pastry baker. He emigrated
to Canada, where he lived for three
years, but he returned and joined the
2nd Gordons in March 1915. He was
trained in Aberdeen and was sent to
France on the 1st of June 1915.
When there he volunteered for any
work that required special daring.
He was selected among other volun-
teers for a dangerous expedition to
the enemy's lines to gain informa-
tion that was urgently needed.
While returning in the late afternoon
of the 17th of June 1915, he was
killed instantaneously by a sniper.
His platoon officer wrote: — " Your
son was a man of exceptional ability,
and his courage and good example
was of a kind we rarely find in a man
who had not served before in this
war. I had noticed him immediately
as being one of my best men and a
future N.C.O."

Private Charles W. Keillor, 2nd
Royal Scots, 39 Leonard Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Mrs Robert-
son, Penicuik, Midlothian, formerly
of Arbroath. He was twenty-one
years of age, and was employed
at the Dens Iron Works. He
joined the army on the 30th of
November 1914 as a private in the
2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots.
He left for France on the 8th of
April 1915, and was killed in action
on the 18th of June in that year.
Private Keillor was shot by a sniper,
and died without suffering.

PTE. M'AULEY, BLACK WATCH.

Private David Christie M'Auley,
Black Watch, was the son of Mur-
doch M'Aulay, Inverkeilor. He was
thirty-one years of age, and had had
eight years' service — seven years
with the colours and one year in the
reserve. Before he was called up he
had been employed in the Hastings
Jute Mills, Calcutta. Private

M'Aulay died from wounds in
Choque Military Hospital, France,
on the 19th of May 1915.

PTE. WM. REID, BLACK WATCH.

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Private William Reid, 1st Black
Watch, was the son of William Reid
and of his wife Margaret Lownie, 16
Brechin Road, Arbroath. He was
twenty-three years of age and un-
married. Private Reid was working
at Dens Iron Works. He joined the
army in February 1913 as a private
in the 1st Battalion of the Black
Watch, and was mobilised on the
outbreak of war. He was wounded in
France, and four months later was
killed by shell-fire in the trenches
on the 16th of June 1915. A whole
trench had been blown in, and all
the men in that part had been
buried and killed. They were dug
out, and respiration was tried
on Private Reid for two hours,
but proved of no avail. He

was buried in a small military ceme-
tery near by. In writing to his
mother the Chaplain said she might
well be proud of her brave boy, who
had served his King and country so
well. Private Reid had two brothers
with the colours, one in the 5th
Black Watch, and one in the Royal
Navy. His father was an ex-soldier
of the 42nd Highlanders.

Seaman Fr\ncis Bremneh, Royal
Navy, 23 Ladybridge Street, Ar-
broath, was the grandson of Thomas
Cargill and of his wife Margaret
Taylor, 27 High Street. He was
twenty-six years of age, and was a
railway porter at the Arbroath
Station before joining the Howe
Battalion in October 1914. He
served in the Dardanelles campaign,
and died of an abscess on the brain
on board the Hospital Ship Delta on
the 12th of July 1915.

L-CPL. G. GRAY, AUSTRALIANS.

Lance-Corporal G. Gray, 6th
Battalion of the Australian Imperial
Force, was the eldest son of George
Gray, 22 Fergus Square, Arbroath.
He was thirty-two years of age, and
unmarried. He served his appren-
ticeship with Mr A. S. Matthewson,
painter. Before leaving Arbroath he
was a member of the Forfarshire Bat-
tery of the Royal Field Artillery. In
January 1915 he joined the Austra-
lian contingent, with which he sailed
to Egypt, and he afterwards left for
the Dardanelles, where he was killed.

CPL. A. GIBB, ROYAL SCOTS.

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Corporal Arthur John Gibb, 4th
Royal Scots, Mediterranean Expedi-
tionary Force, was the eldest son of
John Gibh, stationmaster, Inver-
keilor, and of his wife Ann Grant,
He was twenty-three years of age,
and was a brilliant student of Edin-
burgh University, where he gained
his M.A. degree in 1914 with first-
class honours in English. For three
years he was a member of the College
Company of the 6th Royal Scots,
and, although he had received an im-
portant appointment in George Wat-
son's College, he immediately volun-
teered for service as soon as war
broke out. Had he lived he would
have taken a high place in the profes-
sion of teaching, which he had chosen
as his life's work. He went to the
Dardanelles early in June 1915, and
took part in the famous charge of
the Royal Scots on the 28th of that
month, after which he was posted as
missing. After four months of pain-
ful uncertainty as to his fate, his
parents heard from the Red Cross
Enquiry Office that a companion in
the same platoon had actually seen
him fall.

Private George R. Crook, 5th
Royal Scots, twenty-one years of age,
was the son of Mrs Crook, 39 Barn-
green, Arbroath. He was with a
Leith engineering firm when he joined
the Royal Scots. He took part in
the fighting at the Dardanelles when
that battalion distinguished itself,
and his death resulted on the 12th
of July from wounds received in
action the previous day.

PTE. ROBT. LEE, CANADIANS.
Private Robert Lee, Canadian
Forces, was the son of John Lee,
Schoolhouse, Kirkden. He was
killed in a bayonet charge at Ypres
on the 8th of May 1915.

PTE. BERT SNOWBALL, B.W.
Private Bert Snowball, 5th
Black Watch, was one of Car-
noustie's leading golfers, and was
employed with Mr R. Simpson, club-
maker. At one time he had the dis-
tinction of having beaten Vardon in
Ireland. He was killed in May 1915
by the same shell that wounded a
Carnoustie and an Arbroath man.

PTE. G. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. JAMES ADAMSON, R.S.F.

Private Geohge Smith, C Com-
pany, 8th Black Watch, was the son
of David Smith, March of Lunan,
He was twenty-three years of age,
and was unmarried. Before the war
lie had been employed as a plough-
man at East Idvies. He joined the
army in November 1914, and after
training went over to France in
May 1915. Three months after-
wards, on the 14th of August,
he was killed in action. A comrade
wrote that shelling had been going
on for about two hours, when one of
the big "Jack Johnsons" fell right
into the trench and killed Private
Smith and three other men. He was
buried in the cemetery at Goire
Wood, about two miles behind
Givenchy, where he was killed. His
platoon officer wrote: — '"I Knew
your son very well, and I can assure
you that his death is a great loss to
the platoon. Always bright and
cheery, even under the most depres-
sing circumstances, he was ever keen
on his work, quick to learn, and
eager to do all he could. He was
absolutely without fear, and was a
great favourite with the platoon."

Private James Adamson, Gth
Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5 Bonnybank,
Gorebridge, Midlothian, was the son
of James Adamson and of his wife
Agnes M'Kenzie, 8 Leonard Street,
Arbroath. He married Dinah

Hendry, of Leith. He was a tailor
by trade, but he had enlisted in the
regular army in 1894 as a trooper
in the 11th Hussars. His service
extended over eight years in
India and Egypt. He was called up
as a reservist on the outbreak of war
in August 1914, and went over with
the first army to France. He came
through the bitter experience of the
retreat from Mons, where he was
wounded. He was invalided home,
but on his recovery he returned to
France in July 1915. A month later
he was again wounded, this time
with fatal results. He was taken
to the 2 /lst West Riding Casualty
Clearing Station, where he died
on the 28th of August 1915 at the
age of forty-three. He was buried in
Lillers Cemetery, in that portion set
apart for British soldiers, and a cross
with his name and the date of his
death was erected over his grave.

BUGLER B. A. PARKER, B.W.

PTE. D. KYDD. BLACK WATCH.

Bugler Bertie Allan Robertson
Parker, who was twenty-three years
of age and unmarried, was the son of
Sergeant David Parker and of his
wife Agnes F. Robertson, 9 Convent
Street, Arbroath. Previous to the
war he was employed at Westburn
Foundry. He had been for more
than seven years a member of the 5th
Black Watch, Territorial Force, hav-
ing joined the 1st Battalion in 1908
as a bugler. He left for the front
in November 1914, and came through
unscathed until the 8th of Septem-
ger 1915, when he was killed in
action. He was engaged on listen-
ing-post duty when a bullet from a
German sniper laid him low. Before
going to the war Bugler Parker was
a very promising young boxer and all-
round athlete. An open contest for
soldiers was held in the Kinnaird
Hall, Dundee, as a means not only of
adding to the national fund, but also
as a stimulus for recruiting. Bugler
Parker entered for a 9 st. event, al-
though only weighing 7 st. 8 lb., and
met and knocked out a lad much
bigger and heavier than himself.
Captain Manson, of the Boys' Bri-

Private Douglas Kydd, 5th
Black Watch, twenty-three years of
age, was the son of William Kydd,
31 West Mill Wynd, Arbroath. He
was an iron moulder at the Dens
Iron Works, and was well-known as
a football player, having been con-
nected with several of the junior
clubs. He joined the army in August
1914 and went over . to France in
November. He was killed by a
sniper on the 25th of August 1915.
The Chaplain records that his death
was instantaneous, and that he lies
with many other brave men in the
corner of a quiet green orchard near
where he fell.

gade, wrote: — "Bert was a great
favourite with the boys, and was
well-liked by everyone who came into
contact with him. I can hardly be-
lieve we will have him no more teach-
ing us the bugle." Bugler Parker
was a holder of the " Mons Star."
His father was also at the front with
the 5th Black Watch, but he was
invalided home and afterwards
stationed at Forfar.

CPL. D. MURRAY, CANADIANS. PTE. RITCHIE, BLACK WATCH.

Corporal David Murray, Cana-
dian Expeditionary Force, was the
son of John Murray, Kirkstile, St
Vigeans. He was thirty years of
age, and had married only a week
before his death. Before going to
Canada he was employed with Mr
Dorward, West Port, Arbroath, and
at the time of joining up he was in
the Calgary Government Telephone
Store. In April 1915 he became a
private in B Company, 56th Cana-
dians, and later was promoted cor-
poral. He died on the 15th of Sep-
tember 1915 in the General Hospital,
Calgary, while still under training.

Private George Ritchie, 1st
Black Watch, 91 Leonard Street,
Belfast, was the son of Mrs George
Ritchie, 64 Cairnie Street, Arbroath.
He married Mary Anna Bell, and
left one daughter. He was a
cabinetmaker by trade, in the em-
ployment of Messrs Harland &
Wolff, shipbuilders, Belfast. He
joined the army on the 2nd of March
1915 as a private in the 1st Black
Watch, and after three months'
training at Nigg, went to France
with his battalion. He was killed
at Loos on the 25th of September
1915 at the age of thirty-four.

PTE. CHARLES REID, GORDONS.

Private Charles Reid, 1st Gor-
don Highlanders, was the son of
James Reid, bleacher, Arbroath. He
was thirty-nine years of age, and
left a widow and five children. Pre-
vious to joining up in September
1914, he had been employed in a
Leven coal mine. During his service
in France he went through many hot
engagements, including that of Hill
60, and was killed early in 1915.

A.B. ROBT. MARSHALL, R.N.D.

Able Seaman Robert Marshall,
Royal Naval Division, was the son
of Mrs Marshall, Carlogie Road,
Carnoustie. He was a leading and
popular member of the Carnoustie
Cricket Club and also of the Musical
Society. Before the war he was in
the engineer's department of the
Dundee Harbour Office. Seaman
Marshall was killed in action at the
Dardanelles in 1915.

SGT. ALBERT E. CROWE, B.W. PTE. W. SHAW, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant Albert Edward "Crowe,
2nd Black Watch, was a brother of
Miss Crowe, East Hills, Carmyllie.
His lather belonged to Montrose and
Sergeant Crowe himself was a tele-
graph messenger at Montrose Post
Office previous to joining the regular
army in August 1909. He went to
France at the outbreak of war, and
was killed at the age of twenty-two
in the battle of Loos on the 25th of
September 1915. Captain Cochrane,
who was commanding Sergeant
Crowe's section of the Black Watch,
wrote : — ' ' He served under me as
machine gun sergeant since March,
and I had the greatest regard for his
character and abilities. He was
killed close beside me on the 25th at
about one p.m., a long way behind
the German lines. He had shown
great courage and enterprise in the
fighting on the 25th, and had he been
spared I would have recommended
him for the D.C.M. I must express
the great loss I and the machine gun
company in general have suffered in
his death." Sergeant Albert Crowe's
name was mentioned in Sir Douglas
Haig's Despatches.

Private William Shaw, Black
Watch, whose home was at 31
Broughton Place, Edinburgh, was
the second son of William Shaw,
plumber, and of his wife Jessie Dor-
ward, 48 Fergus Square, Arbroath.
Private Shaw was thirty-five years of
age and unmarried. He was for
some time employed as a tailor with
Mr Clancy, Dunfermline. When war
broke out he enlisted in Edinburgh
as a private in the Black Watch. In
August 1915 he went out to France,
and after one month's service there
he was killed in action on the 25th
of September 1915.

CPL. J. HAG AN, BLACK WATCH.

Corporal John Hagan, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Mrs Hagan,
15 Cross Mill Wynd, Arbroath, who
had two other sons and two grand-
sons in the service, all of whom had
been wounded. Corporal Hagan was
thirty-five years of age, and before
the war had been employed at the
Alma Works, Arbroath. He was
wounded on the 9th of May 1915, and
died in hospital the following day.

PTE. DAVID GRAY, GORDONS. L-CPL. D. SCRIMGEOUR, B.W.

Private David Gray, Gordon
Highlanders, was the son of William
Gray, 3 St Vigeans Road, Arbroath.
He was twenty-four years of age and
before enlisting had been a plough-
man. He was killed at Loos on the
25th of September 1915.

PTE. A. STEWART, CAMERONS.

Private Archibald Stewart, 3rd
Cameron Highlanders, belonged to
Milton of Fintry, Kintore. He was
employed as a porter at Guthrie
Station, and was amongst the first in
the district to enlist, which he did in
September 1914. He was wounded
at Loos on the 25th of September
1915, and died four days later.

C.S.M. BROWN, BLACK WATCH.

Company Sergeant-Major Brown,
2nd Black Watch, was the only son
of Mrs Brown, Carnoustie. He had
seen several years' service in India,
and went to Frajice with his
battalion. Sergeant-Major Brown
was in the battle of Neuve Chapelle,
coming through unharmed. He was
killed in action in October 1915.

Lance - Corporal David Scrim-
geottr 9th Battalion Black Watch,
was the son of John Scrimgeour, 31
Leonard Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-six years of age, and was a
signalman at Muthil Station. He
belonged to the Territorial Division
of the Black Watch, was mobilised
in August 1914, and went over to
France in September. Lance-Cor-
poral Scrimgeour was posted as
missing and afterwards was officially
reported as having been killed in
action at the battle of Loos on the
25th of September 1915.

Q.M.S. W. M. OGG, CAMERONS.
Quartermaster-Sergeant William
Moss Ogg, 5th Cameron Highlanders
(Lochiel's Battalion), was the son of
William Ogg, Houston Lea, Car-
noustie. He was married and left two
children. He was at one time in the
1st Camerons, and on the outbreak of
war he at once rejoined the forces. He
was killed in action in October 1915.
One of the sergeants wrote: — "He
was loved by all his men because of
his personal character and his untir-
ing efforts on our behalf."

PTE. CARRIE, BLACK WATCH.

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Private Peter Carrie. 8th Black
Watch, 56 Melville Street, Loch-
gelly, was the son of David Carrie,
42 J East Abbey Street, Arbroath.
He was forty-four years of age. He
married Jane Stewart and left three
sons and one daughter. Private
Carrie had been seven years in the
army, and served both in India and
South Africa. He was at one time
employed at the Millgate Tanworks,
but at the time of his rejoining the
colours in 1914 he was working as a
miner at Lochgelly. He was killed
on the 29th of September 1915. The
medical officer said that Private
Carrie had been with him all the time
during the great battle of Loos, and
by his vigilance had saved him over
and over again. On the night of Sep-
tember the 25th his assistance was
invaluable in looking after many
seriously wounded men, and he did
not hesitate to go out, under fire and
bring them in. Had he lived he
would have been recommended for
the D.O.M. The Black Watch made
a magnificent charge on the 25th of
September, and Peter helped to keep
up the great name it had always had

Private James Barrie, 10th
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles),
thirty-four years of age, was the
adopted son of Mrs Jane Welsh, 14
Robert Street, Arbroath. He served
his apprenticeship at Hill Road Boot
and Shoe Factory, and was working
in Glasgow when he joined the
colours on the outbreak of war. He
fell in action during the heavy fight-
ing at the battle of Loos on the 25th
of September 1915.

PTE. W. REDD, BLACK WATCH.

Private William C. Reid, Black
Watch, Arbroath, was a brakesman
on the Caledonian Railwav. He had
served for two years in the army,
had been wounded, and later was
presumed to have been killed.

CPL. A. LEADINGHAM, H.L.I.

Corporal Arthur Leadingham,
12th Highland Light Infantry,
twenty-eight years of age, was the
son of George Leadingham and of
his wife Betsy Malcolm, 29 Millgate,
Friockheim. He served in France and
was killed on the 13th of August 1915.

L-CPL. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. JOHN WHITTON, K.O.S.B.

Lance-Corporal James D. Smith,
9th Black Watch, was the son of
Alexander Smith, solicitor, Loch-
shade Cottage, Arbroath. He was
twenty-eight years of age, and had
served his apprenticeship with
Messrs Clark & Oliver, S.S.C.
Later he was law clerk with Messrs
Fraser, Stoddart & Ballingall, Edin-
burgh. He was a good all-round
athlete, and prominent in the
cricket, football, and hockey fields.
Lance-Corporal Smith joined the
army in October 1914 as a private,
and was attached to the hand gren-
ade section of his battalion. He was
killed in action at the battle of Loos
on the 25th of September 1915.

Private John Whitton, 7th
King's Own Scottish Borderers, was
the son of John Whitton, 15 Fergus
Square, Arbroath. He was twenty-
one years of age. He had served his
apprenticeship with the High Street
Co-operative Society, Arbroath, but
was with the Co-operative Stores in
Cambuslang when he enlisted in
September 1914. When he joined the
army he was detailed as an officer's
servant both at home and at
the front. After having been three
months in France Private Whitton
was posted as missing after the
battle of Loos. Afterwards he was
officially reported as having been
killed on the 25th of September 1915.

PTE. W. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Smith, 2nd
Black Watch, was the son of William
Smith, 26 Arbroath Road, Car-
noustie. He had been for ten years
in India with his regiment. Private
Smith, who was thirty-three years
of age, died in hospital as the result
of wounds received in action on the
9th of May 1915.

PTE. S. TODD, BLACK WATCH.

Private Samuel Todd, 2nd Black
Watch, was the son of William Todd,
factory worker, South Grimsby, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-four years
of age, aoid had been a member of
the 1st Black Watch for nearly four
years, but had later been trans-
ferred to the 2nd. He was killed
in action on the 9th of May 1915.

CPL. WM. JACK, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. TAYLOR, BLACK WATCH.

Corporal William Jack, 9th Black
Watch, thirty-five years of age,
was the youngest son of William
Jack, Milldens, Guthrie. He was
employed with his brother, John
Jack, licensed grocer, Arbroath, til)
August 1914, when he enlisted in
the 9th Black Watch. Corpora]
Jack went to France in July, and
was killed at the battle of Loos on
the 25th of September 1915. He had
just got over the parapet when a
bullet struck him in the forehead,
and he died instantaneously.

PTE. M'ANDREW, CAMERONS.

Private William M' Andrew, 5th
Camerons, was the son of Alexander
M' Andrew, plasterer, 33 Lindsay
Street, Arbroath. Before he joined
the army he was employed as a plas-
terer in Forfar. He left a wife and
two daughters. Private M'Andrew
was killed in action on the 20th of
November 1915, having been shot
through the head while on listening-
post duty. He was buried in a
small cemetery about a mile and a
half behind the firing line.

Private George Laird Taylor,
8th Black Watch, was the son of
George Laird Taylor and of his wife
Elizabeth Turnbull, Courthill, Inver-
keilor. He was seventeen years of
age, and was employed as a plough-
man at East Newton. He joined the
Black Watch in October 1914, went
to France with his battalion, and
was killed in action at the battle of
Loos on the 25th of September 1915.

PTE. J. HUTCHISON, B.W.

Private J. Hutchison, 2nd Black
Watch, son of John Hutchison, 8
Cross Mill "Wynd, Arbroath, was
nineteen years of age, and was em-
ployed at Stanley Works previous to
joining the Black Watch in 1913.
He was killed in action on the 9th
of May 1915. On the afternoon of
that day the battalion heroically
climbed over the parapet of the
trench and charged bravely forward
in spite of heavy losses, but before
they had gone twenty yards they
were cut down under a heavy fire,
Private Hutchison being one of
those who died in the attack.

PTE. G. HOGG, SCOTS GUARDS.

L-CPL. JOHN MANN, K.O.S.B.

Private George Edward Hogg,
1st Scots Guards, Denfield, Arbroath,
was the son of David S. Hogg and of
his wife Jessie Murray, Denfield. He
was twenty years of age and un-
married, and was employed as a
ploughman on the farm of Drum-
bertnot, Lunan. He enlisted on the
19th of September 1914 as a private
in the 1st Scots Guards, and went
over to France in February 1915. He
was killed in action at the battle of
Loos on the 27th of September 1915.
Private Hogg had two brothers at
the front — Private James, 1st Black
Watch, and Sergeant David, R.F.A.,
who was killed the following year.

SGT. MILLER, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant G. E. Miller, 5th Black
Watch, was twenty-six years of age
and lived at 8 Carnegie Street, Ar-
broath. He was an assistant in
Inverbrothock School, and was one
of several teachers under the Ar-
broath School Board who joined the
5th Black Watch on the outbreak of
war. Sergeant Miller was killed in
action on the 9th of May 1915.

Lance-Corporal John Mann, 6th
Battalion of the King's Own Scot-
tish Borderers, Parkhill Mains, Ar-
broath, was the son of Alexander
Mann and of his wife Jane Lawson,
Kinnell. He was twenty-two years
of age, and was a gardener at
Hoddam Castle, Ecclefechan. He
joined the army in September 1914
as a private, went to France with his
battalion, and died on the 27th of
September 1915 in the Casualty
Clearing Station at Chocques from
wounds received at Loos.

PTE. D. JAMIESON. SEAFORTHS.

Private David Jamieson, 8th Sea-
forth Highlanders, 24 West Newgate,
Arbroath, was the son of William
Jamieson and of his wife Joan Pert,
26 Leonard Street. He was thirty-
five years of age, had married Jean
Smith, and left six of a family. He
was an iron turner when he joined
up in August 1914. He went to
France in June 1915, and was killed
on the 25th of September. He had
two brothers in the army, one of
whom died of wounds in 1917.

ARM.-SGT. PETRIE, F. & F. YEO.

PTE. J. NAIRN, BLACK WATCH.

Armourer-Sergeant Robert M.
Petrie, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry,
was the fourth son of James Petrie,
blacksmith, Gravesend, Arbroath. He
was twenty-nine years of age and un-
married, and carried on business as
a blacksmith with his brother in
Gravesend. He was an enthusiastic
footballer, and was included in the
Yeomanry team which had the dis-
tinction of winning the Regimental
Cup. He joined the Arbroath troop
of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry as
a trooper, and had just completed
eight years' service when war was
declared. He was mobilised at
Cupar, and, after undergoing training
in different camps in England, went
to Gallipoli with the regiment. He
had been only> a few weeks there
when, while in charge of a party im-
proving a trench at Suvla Bay, he
was struck by a bullet from a sniper,
and died almost immediately, on the
3rd of October 1915. His comrades
buried him in a little cemetery just
behind the trenches. Sergeant

Petrie was the first Fife and Forfar
Yeoman belonging to the Arbroath
district to fall in action.

Private James Nairn, Black
Watch, was the son of David Nairn,
Jenny's "Wells, Boysackmuir, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age
and before he enlisted he was em-
ployed as a shepherd. He joined tlie
Black Watch in July 1915, and after
several months' training was drafted
to France in January 1916. Private
Nairn was posted as missing on the
14th of October 1916, and later was
officially reported as having been
killed in action on that date.

PTE. T. ADAMS, BLACK WATCH.

Private Thomas Adams, 2nd
Black Watch, Yukon Cottage, Car-
noustie, was thirty-eight years of
age. He had married and left one
child. Private Adams had seen much
active strvice, having served with
the Scots Guards through the whole
of the South African War. He re-
enlisted in April 1915. Three months
later he was killed by a stray bullet.
His officer, who was standing by him
when he was shot, said : — "The regi-
ment has lost a good soldier, and I
have lost one of my best men."

PTE. DONALDSON, STAFFORDS. 2nd-MEUT. SIMPSON, GORDONS.

Private James Donaldson, 5th
South Staffordshire Regiment, was
the son of George Donaldson, joiner,
44 St Vigeans Road, Arbroath. He
served his apprenticeship as a baker
with the West Port Association, Ltd.
in Arbroath, but for eight years pre-
vious to joining the colours he was
employed as a driller at the Mother-
well Bridge Works. He was thirty-
three years of age and unmarried.
He was at one time a member of the
Territorial Force, and he enlisted at
Hamilton in September 1914 in the
2nd Royal Scots. He was afterwards
transferred to the 5th South Stafford-
shire Regiment, in which he served
as orderly to the adjutant. Private
Donaldson had been in France for
nearly a year when he was reported
killed in action on the 13th' of Octo-
ber 1915 near Hullouch at Fosse 8,
Hohenzollern Redoubt. Adjutant
Lamond, with whom he served, had
a very high opinion of his character
and ability. He wrote of him: —
"He has been my orderly nearly the
whole of this year (1915), and I have
always found him worthy of respect,
not only as a soldier, but as a man."

Second-Lieutenant Douglas A.
Simpson, 7th Gordon Highlanders,
(T.F.)., was the only son of A. Nicol
Simpson, the well-known writer,
"Nihil Naething," Whinhurst, For-
doun. and grandson of John Simp-
son, manufacturer, Arbroath. He
was twenty-five years of age, and
before enlisting was a flax-spinner,
being employed as assistant to his
father at the East Mill. Brechin. He
joined the army in February 1915 as
second-lieutenant, and after some
months' training went to France
with his battalion. Three months
afterwards he was wounded in action
and died the following day at Warloy
Hospital on the 15th of October 1915.
Writing of 2nd-Lieutenant Simpson,
the "Brechin Advertiser" said: —
"He was a young man of high pro-
mise. Possessed of many fine quali-
ties, he was very popular and held in
high esteem by all who knew him.
He seemed to frame his own life's
work as if he intended to so walk
that others might profit by his ex-
ample. When war broke out he
looked upon it as a sacred duty to
offer his services to his country."

PTE. C. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

2nd-LIEUT. R. M. BUNCLE, R.F.A.

Private Chables Smith, B Coy.,
1st Black Watch, twenty-five years
of age and unmarried, was the son of
David Smith, March of Lunan, In-
verkeilor. Previous to joining the
colours he had been a ploughman at
Mains of Logie, near Montrose. In
February 1915 he became a private in
the Black Watch, and went over to
France in July. After serving for
three months he died of wounds on
the 14th of October, and was buried
in the cemetery at Guillemont.

L-CPL. GEO. APPLEBY, K.O.S.B.

Lance-Corporal George Appleby,
1st King's Own Scottish Borderers,
Lochty Cottages, Carnoustie, was
in India when war broke out. On
landing at the Dardanelles he was
w ounded and was sent back to
Alexandria, but later returned to
the firing line. He was killed

in action on the 28th of June
1915 while serving with the Mediter-
ranean Expeditionary Force. For
his bravery he was awarded a certi-
ficate by the General Officer Com-
manding the 29th Division.

Second-Lieutenant Ronald M.
Bi'ncle, 1st Lowland Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (T.), was the
only son of Dr Alexander Buncle,
Purston, Pontefract, and grandson
of Thomas Buncle, " Arbroath
Guide." He was nineteen years cf
age, and a medical student at Edin-
burgh University. He was attached
to the Officers' Training Corps, and
was mess president of his battery.
He got his commission in September
1915. While in the training ground
at Edinburgh his horse, startled by
a passing engine, bolted and fell,
kicking him and fracturing his skull.
He was taken to Craigleith Military
Hospital, where he died on the 16th
of October.

L-CPL. CHAS. GOWANS, B.W.

Lance-Corporal Charles Gowans,
1st Black Watch, was the son of
Charles Gowans, Ladybridge Street.
Before coming over to join the army
he was employed in the Montreal
Electric Works, Canada. Lance-
Corporal Gowans was killed in action
on the 9th of May 1915.

CPL. MUCKART. WELSH HORSE.

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Corporal David Mtjckart, 1st
Welsh Horse, was the son of David
Muckart, J.P., and of his wife Mar-
garet Pattullo, Tarryburn House, St
Vigeans. He was twenty-eight years
of age and unmarried. Before enter-
ing the army he was an electrical en-
gineer in connection with the electric-
station at Llanelly, South Wales. He
joined up on the 4th of August 1914
as a trooper in the 1st Welsh
Horse. He was afterwards promoted
to the rank of corporal, and attached
to the machine gun section of the
same battalion. He took part in the
Dardanelles expedition, and was for
five weeks in the thick of the strenu-
ous fighting on the Gallipoli Penin-
sula. He died of dysentery on the
14th of November 1915 in the 21st
General Hospital, Alexandria. In a
letter his Commanding Officer said :
" He was a good soldier, and one of
my most reliable men, and was al-
ways a popular lad ; and every one
of his comrades, as a lasting token
of respect, contributed towards
erecting a white marble cross and
border on his grave with a very neat
inscription."

Corporal William Howie, of the
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, was a son
of Thomas Howie, farmer, Beech-
wood, Arbroath . He was twenty-
eight years of age and unmarried,
and was employed as a traveller for
Mr James A. Thomson, ironmonger.
He joined the army in September
1914 as a trooper. He served in
Gallipoli, and was killed instan-
taneously at Suvla Bay on the 28th
of November 1915 through a shell
from the Turkish lines e/xploding
amongst a party of the Yeomanry who
had just come in from the firing line.

LIEUT. HENDERSON-HAMILTON

Lieutenant James Campbell
Henderson-Hamilton, 9th Black
Watch, thirty-one years of age, was
the younger son of the Rev. C. C.
Henderson-Hamilton, and grandson
of the Rev. William Henderson,
formerly incumbent of S. Mary's
Church, Arbroath. He was killed in
action in France on 25th-27th Sep-
tember 1915, just a month after his
elder brother was killed at the Dar-
danelles.

PTE. D. PYPER, SEAFORTHS. PTE. S. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

Private David Pyper, 48th Sea-
t'orth Highlanders, Lena, Manitoba,
Canada, was the son of Robert
Pyper, Lenaville, Huntingdon Road.
Dumfries, who for many years was
Inspector of Police in Arbroath. Pri-
vate Pyper was thirty-eight years of
age. In 1904 he had married Mary
Baxter, a Canadian, and he left two
sons. He was a master builder of
wooden houses in Saskatchewan and
all over the country. Early in 1915
he joined the army in Victoria, Brit-
ish Columbia, as a pioneer sergeant.
On his arrival in England he was a
provost sergeant, but as he was
anxious to get to the front at once
he transferred to the 31st Seaforth
Higlanders as a private as that
battalion was just getting ready
to go overseas. He was engaged
as a sniper, and on the 9th
of November 1915 was shot on the
left hand by an explosive bullet. He
was admitted to Boulogne Hospital,
and a week later was put on board
the hospital ship Anglia to be taken
to Dover, but was drowned when the
vessel was sunk on the 17th of
November.

Private Sydney Smith, 8th Black
Watch, who was thirty-two years of
age and unmarried, was the youngest
son of William Smith, joiner, and of
his wife Beattie Ann Harris, 7 Lady-
loan, Arbroath, and grandson of
David Harris, butcher, Millgate, Ar-
broath. He was employed at Kelly
Bleachfield. Private Smith joined
the Royal Highlanders in Perth in
May 1915, and died of wounds in the
4th General Hospital, Versailles, on
the 30th of December 1915.

PETTY OFFICER JAGGER. B.N.

Petty Officer John Jagger,
Royal Navy, son of Mrs Jagger, 93
Keptie Street, Arbroath, was twenty-
seven years of age. On leaving the
High School he joined the navy. He
had been for three years on H.M.S.
Natal, when on the 30th of December
1915 it was sunk by an internal ex-
plosion in Invergordon Harbour.
Petty Officer Jagger had a day off
duty on the day of the disaster, but
instead of going ashore he spent the
day resting, and was in his bunk
when the explosion occurred.

LIEUT. S. S. ANDERSON, R.S.F. L-CPL. S. GLASS, BLACK WATCH.

Lieutenant Samuel Stephen
Anderson, 5th Royal Scots Fusi-
liers, thirty-three years of age, was
the son of Mrs Anderson, 19 Leam-
ington Terrace, Edinburgh. He
taught modem languages for four
years in Arbroath High School, and
latterly in Ayr Academy. " S. S.,"
as he was familiarly called in Ar-
broath, was a member of the local
opera company, and his fine bass
voice was frequently heard on the
concert platform — that same voice
which in Gallipoli on the evening of
his last Christmas Day (four days be-
fore his death) cheered his brothel-
officers in what was voted a "great
evening' ' by singing in French the
Marseillaise. Lieutenant Anderson
enlisted as a private in September
1914, and, as his Brigadier General
said, from the first he showed the
greatest determination and energy,
and was marked out for early pro-
motion. He rose through all the
ranks, and won his commission on the
field. While a sergeant he acted as
interpreter in Gallipoli. Later he
went through the fiery ordeal of the
29th-30th December 1915, and was

Lance-Corporal Stephen Glass,
2nd Black Watch, thirty-six years of
age, was the son of John Glass and of
his wife Isabella Duncan, Westgate.
Friockheim. He joined the Terri-
torials in 1911, and was working at
Friockheim Bleachfield when he was
mobilised. He was killed at Festu-
bert o<n the 9th of May 1915, during
a heroic advance under heavv fire.

killed instantaneously by a shell on
the 30tb He lies with many of his
brother officers and men in a grave
at the head of the Krithia Nullah.
The following was written in his
memory by Private Robertson, lec-
turer in history in Birmingham Uni-
versity : —

You were called early to those hills afar
Where once reigned desolation, and once more
She reigns with Death, her consort, to the shore,
Where the sea waves lament the dead that are
Imprisoned in that kingdom. And you went
By joy attended— and by fears, but 'these
You conquered in repeated victories —
To the' sad battles of the Orient.
But Death was angered at your high disdain,
And at the latest hour his vengeance wrought,
Yet gaine 1 no triumph; for, serene in thought,
You met his coming; so for you, though slain,
Scarcely we grieve, but say, " Do they not live
Who counted life a little thing to give ? "

PTE. MACLURE, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. D. SIM, BLACK WATCH.

Private Edward Maolube, 2nd
Black Watch, who was twenty-one
years of age, was the son of John
M. Maclure, Arbroath Dye Works,
and of his wife Isabella Scott. 3 Fer-
gus Square, Arbroath. He served
his apprenticeship as an engineer
with Messrs Douglas Fraser & Sons,
and before going to the front was an
engineer in the employment of the
British United Shoe Machine Co.,
Leicester. He joined the army in
November 1914, and after some
months' training at Nigg. Ross-
shire, he left for France with the 2nd
Black Watch in March 1915, but
was afterwards transferred to the
Machine Gun Corps. He left France
in December for Mesopotamia, and
was killed in action there on the 21st
of January 1916. His sergeant, writ-
ing of him, said : — "He feared noth-
ing and was a great loss to the gun."

PIPER J. DAVIS, BLACK WATCH

Piper John Davis, 2nd Black
Watch, who was at one time a
gardener at Abbethune. was killed in
action on the 27th of September 1915.

Private David Sim, Black Watch,
27 Panmure Street. Arbroath, was
the son of William Sim. He married
Susan Balfour, and left two sons and
one daughter. He was at one time
employed in the Goods Department,
Leith Walk Station, Edinburgh.
Private Sim joined the army in Sep-
tember 1914, and went to France with
his regiment two months later. In
January 1915 he was invalided home
for six months. After returning to
France and serving there for a short
time he was sent to> the eastern
front, and it was presumed that he
was killed at the Persian Gulf on
the 21st of January 1916.

ACTG.-SGT. WILLIAM LAMB, R.E.

Acting-Sergeant William Lamb,
Royal Engineers, thirty-one years of
age, was the only son of Mrs Lamb,
Barry Road, Carnoustie. He served
his apprenticeship with Mr C. Black,
builder, Carnoustie. He afterwards
joined the Royal Engineers and
served for twelve years, mostly in
India and China. Sergeant Lamb was
killed in action in November 1915.

GUNR. W. G. WISHART, R.F.A. PTE. MALCOLM, BLACK WATCH.

Gunner W. G. Wishart, Royal
Field Artillery, 16 Cedar Street,
Lower Broughton, Manchester, was
the son of John Wishart, 41
Lordburn, Arbroath. He was

thirty-five years of age, had married
Mary Norrie, and left one son. He
had sei'ved seven years in India, but
was in a hose-pipe factory in Man-
chester when he was mobilised in
1914, and was drafted to Mesopo-
tamia. On the first of March 1916 he
was going up the Tigris with a convoy
when he was accidentally drowned.

PTE. R, GILL, BLACK WATCH.

Private Robert Gill, Black
Watch, twenty-eight years of age,
was a son of William Gill and of his
wife Sarah Ann Toward, 35 Jamieson
Street, Arbroath. He had served in
India before the war, but had pro-
cured his discharge, and was working
with his father when he joined up.
After he had been two years in
France he was reported missing in
October 1916, and was presumed to
have' been killed. His brother, Frank,
was killed in action in May 1918.

Private Joseph Malcolm, 9th
Black Watch, was the youngest son
of James Malcolm and of his wife
Mary Ann Mann, Guthrie Quarries.
He was twenty-four years of age and
unmarried, and had been employed
as a ploughman at Mains of Letham.
He joined the army in August 1915,
and died of wounds received in action
in France on the 13th of March 1916.

C.P.O. DUNDAS, D.S.M., R.N.R.

Chief Petty Officer Alexander
H. Dundas, D.S.M., Royal Naval
Reserve, was a nephew of Bailie
Dundas, Princes Street, Arbroath.
He was thirty-three years of age, and
was at one time employed with Mr
Dargie, painter, and at the Abbey
Leather Works. He entered the navy,
and was on board a training ship in
the Forth. After serving for twelve
years he was placed on the Naval
Reserve. For his conduct in connec-
tion with the sinking of a submarine
Chief Petty Officer Dundas gained
the Distinguished Service Medal.
He was drowned while serving in the
North Sea.

PTE. W. D. JACK, BLACK WATCH

PTE. RODGER, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private William D. Jack, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of John
C. Jack and of his wife Helen Blair,
56 Helen Street, Arbroath. He was
seventeen years of age and had been
working at Kelly Bleachfield. He
was a member of the Territorial
Fare© and was mobilised in Septem-
ber 1914. He was training at
Auehterarder, and when practising
gymnastics there he met with a
serious accident. He was taken to
the Dundee Military Hospital, where
he died on the 8th of March 1916. He
was buried in the Eastern Cemetery,
Arbroath, with full military honours,
many beautiful wreaths manifesting
the grief of his comrades in arms
and personal friends. His Command-
ing Officer wrote of him : — "He was
in my company for several months,
and was very promising ; he was an
excellent shot, and always bright
and cheery and ready to do his work.
He was very popular with his com-
panions, and there is not an officer
or man in the company but feels his
loss very much. He led his life

cheerily and well, and died in the
service of his country."

Private Arthur Rodger, 13th
Battalion Royal Scots, was the
second son of Mrs J. Rodger, 12 Kyd
Street, Arbroath. He was nineteen
years of age, and previous to his
joining the army in July 1915 w'as
employed as a labourer at the West-
burn Foundry. He first joined the
3rd Royal Scots, but was afterwards
drafted to the 13th Battalion. Pri-
vate Rodger was on sentry duty on
the 20th of March 1916 at Hill 70,
near the village of Loos, when the
enemy started a very heavy bom-
bardment. He was hit by shrapnel
and instantaneously killed.

SGT. E. MARQUIS, GORDONS.

Sergeant Ernest Marquis, 8th
Gordon Highlanders, was the son of
Mrs Marquis, Westhaven, Carnous-
tie. He served his apprenticeship
as a gamekeeper on the Panmure
estate. Sergeant Marquis was men-
tioned in despatches for meritorious
conduct in the field in January 1916.
Later he was officially reported killed
in action. A brother of Sergeant
Marquis was also serving at the front.

PTE. DAVID JACK, GORDONS.

PTE. HOWIE, R.A.M.C. (T.).

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Private David S. ^M. Jack, 8th
Gordon Highlanders, was the son of
James Jack and of his wife Margaret
Sinclair. 2 Burcot Koad, Meersbrook,
Sheffield. Private Jack was a native
of Arbroath, his father having been
for many years a leading engineer in
the Dens Iron Works. He was eigh-
teen years of age, and when he joined
Kitchener's Army in November 1915
he was working as a shell turner at
Messrs Hadfield's, Newhall Road,
Sheffield. After going through three
and a half months' training at Aber-
deen lie went to France. On the 1st
of April 1916 he was shot through
the head and killed instantaneously
while on duty in a listening post.
He was buried in a military ceme-
tery behind the trenches. His Com-
manding Officer wrote that he was a
great loss to all who knew him, and
he would be much missied.

ARTIFICER, R, STEWART. R.N.

Artificer Robert Stewart, R.N.,
son of Mrs Stewart, Rose Street,
Carnoustie, lost his life while on
duty in His Majesty's navy in 1915.

Private William Howie, 1st
Lowland Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
(T.), was the elder son of Thomas J.
Howie and of his wife Mary
Morrison, Auchinblae, 23 Kirkburn
Avenue, Cambuslang, and grandson
of William Howie, draper, Arbroath.
He was thirty-one years of age and
unmarried. He had an appointment
in the Dominion Bank, first at Win-
nipeg, and latterly as assistant
accountant in the branch at Vancou-
ver, B.C. During his stay at Winni-
peg he was an enthusiastic athlete
and footballer, and captained the
team in connection with Ralph
Connor's Church. At the outbreak
of war he resigned his appointment,
and came home and joined the 1st
Lowland Field Ambulance, then
stationed at Yorkhill, Glasgow. Pte.
Howie was a brother of Captain
and Adjutant Adrian M. Howie,
M.R.C.V.S., who was in charge of
the South African Veterinary Corps
engaged in East Africa, under
General Smuts. Private Howie died
of meningitis at Hawiok on the 25th
of April 1916. and was buried at
Arbroath.

PTE. J. SKENE, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. BREMNER, BLACK WATCH

Private John Gilbert Skene, 2nd
Black Watch, was the sod of Gilbert
Skene and of his wife Margaret
Young. 3 Ogilvy Place, Arbroath.
He was twenty-five years of age and
unmarried, and was at one time
employed as a farm servant at the
Mains of Glamis, near Forfar. He
joined the army in July 1910, and
went with his regiment to France
on the outbreak of war. He was

wounded in action in October 1914,
his spine having been seriously in-
jured. Private Skene got his dis-
charge as no longer physically fit for
war service in October 1915. He died
in King George's Military Hospital
in London on the 11th of April 1916.
His patience and fortitude during his
long illness won the admiration of
the military and hospital authorities.
and they arranged that he should be
buried in his native town. Beautiful
wreaths were sent from the Tommies
in the hospital, the nursing staff,
the Marchioness of Ripon, and from
Colonel Dennison. Private Skene
was one of four brothers who were
on active service from the beginning
of the war.

Private George R. Bremner.
5th Black Watch, 33 Barngreen,
Arbroath, was the son of Joseph
Bremner, 1 West End Place. Edin-
burgh. He was twenty-eight years
of age, and had married Eliza Chal-
mers, leaving no children. He had
served his apprenticeship with Messrs
David Corsar &■ Sons, Ltd., but pre-
vious to the outbreak of war he was
employed as a labourer in the elec-
tricians' department of Messrs Jas
Keith & Blackman, Ltd. In 1912 he
joined the Territorials, and was a
keen member of the Force. He was
mobilised, and became a kettle-
drummer in the Pipe Band of the 5th
Black Watch. After being trained
at Broughty Ferry he went with his
battalion to France in November
1914. When serving in the trenches
there as an officer's orderly he met
his death on the 22nd of April 1916.
The trench being shelled, Private
Bremner was killed and his officer
seriously wounded. His major writ-
ing, said: — "All the officers were
very fond of him, and all ranks will
miss him." He was buried in the
British cemetery at Festubert.

PTE. FULLERTON, CANADIANS.

PTE. CUMMING, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Fullerton, 43rd
Canadian Cameron Highlanders.
Cabri, Saskatchewan, Canada, was
the son of David Fullerton, Redford,
Carmyllie. He was twenty-seven

years of age, and was farming in
Canada when war broke out. He
volunteered for service, joined the
Canadian Cameron Highlanders, and
came over with the second contin-
gent from the Dominion. After a
few months in Britain, he went to
France, and was killed in action on
tbe 19th day of May 1916. He was
buried in Maple Cemetery, Belgium.

ENGINEER GEO. HUNTER, R.N.

Engineer George Hunter, Royal
Navy, thirty-two years of age, was
the son of John Hunter, quarrier,
Carmyllie He was in the Royal
Naval Reserve, and was called up on
the outbreak of war. He w-as serv-
ing as engine-room artificer on
H.M.S. Hampshire when that vessel,
with Ljprd Kitchener on board, was
lost on the 5th of June 1916. En-
gineer Hunter was presumed to have
been drowned on that date.

Private James Stuart Cumming,
9th Black Watch, was the son of
Francis Cumming and of his wife
Mary Stuart, 33 Dishlandtown Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-three
years of age and unmarried. He was
a moulder with Messrs Alexander
Shanks & Son, Ltd., and joined
Lord Kitchener's Army in October
1914 as a private in the 9th Black
Watch. He served at the front in
Fiance from June 1915 until the 24th
of May 1916, when he died of wounds.
Private Cumming had two> brothers
serving with the colours — Gunner
A. Cumming, Forfarshire Battery,
R.F.A., who was killed in action, and
Walter Cumming, in the R.N.R.

GNR. JAMES MURRAY, R.F.A.

Gunner James Murray, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-three years of
age, was the son of John Murray,
Kinnell Mill. He had married Agnes
Clark, and was a farm servant at
Hilton of Fearn. In September 1914
he joined the colours, but had been
only three weeks in France when he
died on the 22nd of September 1916.

LT. HUNTER, SURREY RIFLES.

PTE. GERRARD, ROYAL SCOTS.

Lieutenant Alexander Forben
Hunter, 21st (County of London.)
Battalion, London Regiment (First
Surrey Rifles), twenty-one years ot
age, was the son of James M. Hunter
and of his wife Phoebe Forbes, Clair-
mont, Keptie Road, Arbroath. Pre-
vious to joining up he was a clerk in
the Chartered Bank of India, Aus-
tralia, and China, London, E.C. In
July 1915 he joined the Artists' Rifles
as a private, and in December of the
same year receibed his commission
in the 21st (County of London) Bat-
talion of the London Regiment) First
Surrey Rifles). He went to France
in March 1916, and a couple of
months afterwards it was officially
reported that he was killed in action
on the 23rd of May. His officer, in a
letter to his father, stated that the
battalion took part in an attack on
the night of the 23rd May. Lieu-
tenant Hunter led his platoon over
the parapet with the utmost gallan-
try. Practically all his platoon was
wiped out. He further added: —
" Lieutenant Hunter was an excel-
lent boy, most popular, a charming
companion, and an excellent soldier."

Private Allan Gerrard, 12th
Royal Scots, son of George Gerrard
and of his wife Mary Fraser. 3
Leonard Street, Arbroath, was
twenty-two years of age. He was
enployed as an assistant tenter at
the Baltic Works, and was well-
known in junior football circles. He
joined the army in March 1915, and
went to France in October. He was
fatally wounded in the trenches by
the bursting of a rifle grenade close
beside him. He was taken to No. 8
Casualty Clearing Station, where he
died three days later, on the 24th
of May 1917, and he was buried in
the cemetery at Bailleul.

SGT. T. M'lVOR, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant Thomas M'Ivor, 9th
Black Watch. 5 Cross Mill Wynd,
Arbroath, was previous to the war
employed as a miner at Bowhill,
Fifeshire. He . married Catherine
Yeaman, and left three children.
He joined the colours in May 1915,
and three of his brothers were also
in the army. Sergeant M'Ivor was
killed in action in 1916.

A.B. D. MACPHERSON, R.N.V.R. PTE. J. STEPHEN, CANADIANS.

Able-Seaman David Macpheeson,
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve,
Clyde Division, was the son of David
Wilson Macpherson. engine driver,
57 Kinnaird Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty-eight years of age. He
served his apprenticeship in the West
Port Association, and was afterwards
in Motherwell for a few years. He
subsequently went to America, and
returning to Scotland, was employed
for some months in the grocery trade
at Coatbridge. He joined the navy
in August 1915, and was killed in
action on board Admiral Arbuthnot's
flag ship, Defence, at the battle of
Jutland on the 31st of May 1916. His
brother, George, was also engaged
in the encounter on a destroyer.

S.-S. ALEX. M'QUATTIE, F. & F. Y.

Shoeing-Smith Alex. M'Quattie,
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, nineteen
years of age, was an apprentice
blacksmith at Hayhillock, Carmyllie.
He had joined the army, and was
mobilised in August 1914, drafted
to Gallipoli, where he took ill, and
died at Malta in 1915.

Phivate James Stephen, 7th
Platoon, B Company, 49th Battalion,
Canadian Expeditionary Force,
Strome, Alberta, Canada, was the son
of Alexander Stephen, East Scryne,
Carnoustie, formerly at Lawton,
near Arbroath. Private Stephen was
twenty-eight years of age, and lie
was farming in Canada when war
broke out. He joined the Expedi-
tionary Force in January 1915, and
was reported missing on the 3rd of
June 1916. Later he was officially
reported killed. His corporal, writ-
ing of him, said: — "He was one of
the finest fellows I ever met, and was
well liked by all who knew him."

CPL. BLACK, BLACK WATCH.

Cobpoeal Alexander Black, 9th
Black Watch, was the son of John
Black, Arbroath. He was thirty-
two years of age, and left a widow
and five children. Corporal Black's
brother, Private John Black, was
severely wounded in the fighting on
the Tigris. Corporal Alexander
Black was killed in action in France
in May 1916.

PTE. T. SCOTT, SEAFORTHS. PTE. WILFRED MEEKISON, R.S.

Private Thomson Scott. 5th
Seaforth Highlanders, was the eldest
son of the Rev. A. Murray Scott and
of his wife Jessie Thomson, United
Free Church Manse, Colliston, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-three years
of age and was unmarried. Previous
to the outbreak of war he was in
business as a chartered accountant
in London. He joined the Seaforth
Highlanders in September 1914, and
went into training at Bedford, where
he remained for several mouths, and
afterwards left for France in the
summer of 1915. While on sentry
duty a few miles from Arras Private
Thomson Scott was instantaneously
killed on the 4th of June 1916 by
the bursting of a shell in the trench
he was in. The Officer Commanding
A Company, 5th Seaforth High-
landers, wrote: — "I share the re-
spect in which he was held by all
who oame in contact with him. No. 1
platoon, in which he was, are to-day
mourning as they have never
mourned before. He was a fine
soldier, aaid as fine a comrade. As
a business man he was invaluable as
company accountant."

Private Wilfred Meekison, 15th
Royal Scots, was the son of James
Meekison and oif his wife Mary Milne,
33 St Vigeans Road, Arbroath. He
was thirty-three years of age, and
was a steel worker in Motherwell.
In June 1915 he joined the 18th Re-
serve Battalion Royal Scots, and
went to France early in 1916. He
there joined the 15th Royal Scots,
and was for some time attached to
the Royal Engineers. Private

Meekison had just returned to his
unit when he was killed in the
trenches, instantaneously, by a shell
on the 23rd of June 1916. His officer
described him as an "excellent sol-
dier whom we can ill afford to lose."

PTE. GEO. BLACK, CANADIANS.

Private George Black, Canadian
Highlanders, was the son of J. Black,
Graham Place, Carnoustie. He was
a moulder, and had been in the Tay-
mouth Engineering Works. Private
Black had been in Canada, and re-
turned with his regiment in Decem-
ber 1915. He was wounded, and
died on the 29th of April 1916.

SGT. D. SMITH, BLACK WATCH.

CPL. MIDDLETON, ROYAL SCOTS

Sergeant David Smith, 5th Black
Watch, son of Mrs Smith, Grant
Place, Carnoustie, was twenty-four
years of age. He served his appren-
ticeship as an iron turner in the Tay-
mouth Engineering Works. He was
a member of the Territorial Force,
and was well-known and popular in
Carnoustie. In August 1914 he was
mobilised as a private in the 5th
Black Watch, and later, when in
France, he did great service by
initiating the throwing of grenades
with the rifle. It was while explain-
ing the method to his officer that a
grenade accidentally burst and killed
him on the 23rd of June 1916. His
major wrote : — "He died a grand
soldier, loved and respected by all
ranks in his special branch. Just a
few days before he was one of a
selected few who carried out a great
enterprise. To be selected in our
battalion is a great honour, and I
know that his work on that occasion
added greatly to the success of the
enterprise, which brought to the
battalion great praise and con-
gratulations from corps commanders
downwards."

Corporal George Mijddleton, 3rd
Royal Scots, son of James Middle-
ton, 26 Helen Street, Arbroath, was
twenty years of age. He was a
plumber with Mr John Rayne,
and joined the army in Novem-
ber 1914. After being trained at
Weymouth and Hawick, he left for
France in August 1915. Two days
before his death, on the 29th of June
1916 he was promoted to corporal.
He was one of a covering party, and
was about to cross the parapet when
he fell a victim to a German sniper.
He was buried in the British
cemetery at Vermilles.

PTE. ADAM SUTHERLAND, R.S.

Private Adam Sutherland, Royal
Scots, lived at 70 Lochland Street
Arbroath. He was thirty-six years
of age, and left a widow and one
child. Before he joined the army
he was employed as a farm servant
at Hospitalfield. He enlisted in

January 1915, and had been at the
Western front for a year. Private
Sutherland was killed in action on
ttoa 12th of May 1916.

PTE. JAMES BEATTIE, R.N.D.

LT. BROWN, LONDON SCOTTISH.

Private James Beattie. 1st Hawke
Battalion, Royal Naval Division, was
the elder son of James Beattie,
Sea ton Lodge, Arbroath. He was
twenty-four years of age and served
his apprenticeship as an engineer at
Dens Iron Works. Previous to the
war he was employed for a time with
an engineering firm in Newcastle.
He was a well-known player in the
Ardenlea Football Club. About two
months after war broke out he en-
listed as a seaman in the 1st Hawke
Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
After being trained at the Crystal
Palace and Blandford he went with
his battalion to the Dardanelles,
where he remained for several
months. On the evacuation of
Gallipoli he was sent to a rest camp
at Mudros, and in May 1916 was
transferred to France. Private
Beattie had been in the trenches only
a couple or hours wheii he was in-
stantaneously killed by the explod-
ing of a German grenade on the 22nd
of June 1916. He was buried at Aix
la Noulette. A brother, Driver Nor-
man Beattie, was in the Forfarshire
Battery of the Royal Field Artillery.

Second-Lieutenant Ralph Adair
Brown, London Scottish (T.F.), was
the son of George T. Brown, formerly
of Arbroath, and of his wife Mary A.
Peebles, Bowes Park, London. He
was twenty-one years of age and was
on the staff of Messrs Gutbrie & Co.,
East India Merchants, London. He
joined the army in September 1914 as
a private in the London Scottish
(T.F.), and passed through all grades
of non-commissioned rank, in accord-
ance with the traditions of that dis-
tinguished corps. In 1915 he was
promoted second-lieutenant in his
own battalion. He distinguished
himself in all his examinations, and
he and his twin brother. Captain
Lindsay G. Brown, M.C., were two
out of four officers specially recom-
mended to the War Office for merit in
examination out of a school of 500
officers. Second-Lieutenant Brown
went to France in 1916, and was
killed at Gommecourt on the 1st of
July 1916. A second brother was
also in the London Scottish, and a
third, Dr Peebles Brown, was one
of the first doctors to volunteer for
service.

PTE. EVERARD WATSON, S.R.

PTE. SIMPSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Everard Hector Gerald
Watson, Cameronians (Scottish
Rifles), New Orleans, was the only
son of Lieutenant Commander Alex-
ander Watson, U.S.A. Navy. Oak-
land, California, late of Arbroath,
and grandson of James Watson,
Stanley Street. He was a clerk in
the American Mercantile Service, and
was o<n his way to this country when
the vessel was torpedoed in the Eng-
lish Channel and he was taken to the
hospital at Le Havre. He enlisted
there in the Scottish Rifles, and was
sent over to Greenock for training,
returning to France on the 1st of
June 1916. Private Watson had been
in France only a month when he was
killed in action on the 5th of July
1916. He was buried at Vermilles.

PTE. N. ROBERTSON, B.W.

Private Norman Robertson,
Black Watch, was the son of John
and Catherine Robertson, and grand-
son of John Brockie, town's bellman
and billposter. Arbroath. He was
reported missing on the 21st of
January 1916, and died on that date.

Private John Simpson, 6th Black
Watch, was the son of Mrs Simpson,
13 Green Street, Arbroath. He was
thirty-five years of age and un-
married, and at one time was a carter
in Arbroath, but was in the service
of Messrs Dewar, Perth, when he en-
listed in October 1915. He had been
at the front only two months when
he was killed in action in July 1916.
Private Simpson had three brothers
with the colours — William, who was
also in the Black Watch, James with
the Canadian, and George in the
Horse Artillery.

PTE. BAIRD. SOUTH AFRICANS.

Private James Baird, 3rd South
African Infantry, thirty-six years of
age, was the son of William Baird,
Johannesburg, and of his wife Anne
M' Arthur, formerly of Arbroath.
During the South African War he
served in Lord Roberts' Horse. When
war was declared he again volun-
teered, and served for some months
in the German West African cam-
paign. He was presumed to have been
killed in July 1916, at Delville Wood.

CAPT. ALEX. P. LOW, R.A.M.C.

PTE. DONALDSON, SCOT. RIFLES

Captain Alexander Pethie Low,
R.A.M.C, Bank House. Stirling
Street, Dundee, was the son of Cap-
tain William Low and of his wife
Helen Petrie, and grandson of Alex-
ander Petrie, who had a large bakery
business in the High Street- Ar-
broath. Captain Low was forty-one
years of age. He had married Ella
Boyd, and left two sons. After

leaving Arbroath High School he took
his medical degree at Edinburgh, and
subsequently built up a large practice
in Dundee. He was gazetted Cap-
tain of the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1912
and was mobilised in September 1914.
For a year he acted as surgeon to the
First Scottish General Hospital,
Aberdeen. In France he worked in
the Highland Casualty Clearing
Station. No. 30 Clearing Station,
and finally became medical officer to
the 7th Seaforth Highlanders. A

private in the Seaforths described his
last day's work, when on the 14th of
July 1916 they started the advance
to Longueval and Delville Wood : —
"He walked about from one wounded
man to another with the utmost cool-
ness. He was with us in the front

Private William Donaldson, 1st
Scottish Rifles (Cameronians), seven-
teen years of age. was the son of
John Donaldson, 163 Pollokshaws
Road, Glasgow, formerly of Arbroath.
He was employed in Cranston's Tea
Rooms in Glasgow when he was called
up in July 1915, and he was killed
at High Wood (Somme) on the 20th
of July 1916.

line when one shell wounded several
of us, and if anybody showed bravery
and coolness it was Captain Low.
There was a quiet nobility in the way
he did what he would have said was
only his duty, that one was forced to
wonder at it even in the heat of
action." Captain Low was killed by
a direct hit on the head with a shell
and was buried just south of the
village of Longueval. His Lieut. -
Colonel, mentioning that Captain
Low had joined the men who fought
through to Longueval about an hour
after it was taken, said: — "We
were each struck with his sense of
duty in following so soon. The shell-
ing at the time was very heavy."

PTE. R. CRIGHTON, A. & S. H.

SGT. CHRISTIE, BLACK WATCH.

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Private Robert Crighton, lOtli
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
was twenty-two years of age, and
was the son of William Crighton,
and of his wife Jessie Ann Middleton,
Home Farm, Guynd, Carmyllie. He
was employed as a ploughman at
Hillkirk. Letham. He joined the lOtli
Battalion of the Argyll and Suther-
land Highlanders in August 1915.
After some months' training Private
Crighton went across to France. He
was killed on the 14th of July 1916
at Longueval village, Delville Wood.

PTE. WM. M'ARTHUR, R.S.F.

Private William M'Arthur,
Royal Scots Fusiliers, twenty years
of age, was the son of William H.
M'Arthur, boot and shoe maker,
Acton Cottage, Maule Street, Car-
noustie. Prior to his enlistment,
Private M'Arthur was employed by
his father. He attested under the
Derby scheme, and was called up in
January 1916. He went to France in
May, and died on the 13th of July
in Bartholomew's Hospital, London,
the result of a bullet wound.

Sergeant John Christie. Black
Watch, was the son of Mrs Christie,
15 Kyd Street, Arbroath. He was
thirty-one years of age, and had
married Agnes Ferguson, leaving a
son and a daughter. When war broke
out he was employed in a linoleum
work at Kirkcaldy. He had already
served with the colours, having been
for seven years in the Cameronians.
but in August 1914, immediately after
the declaration of war, he re-enlisted,
and became a private in the Black
Watch. He was promoted sergeant,
and served in France as a signaller
until the battle of the Somme, when
hie was killed by poison gas on the
14th of July 1916.

LIEUT. CLOUDSLEY, SURREYS.

Lieutenant Hugh Cloud sley,
Royal West Surrey Regiment, was
the youngest son of John Leslie
Clo'udsley, Brightlands, Reigate, and
grandson of James Cloudsley, White
Hart Hotel, Arbroath. Before join-
ing the army he was a barrister-at-
law. He was killed in action on the
1st of July 1916.

PTE. A. R. ANDERSON, Q.R.W.S.

PTE. JAMES RITCHIE, T.S., N.F.

Private Archibald Ronald An-
derson. 10th Battalion Queen's
Royal West Surreys, who was twenty
three years of age, was the son of
Mrs Christina Anderson, 26 Lady-
loan, Arbroath. He was formerly a
clerk with Messrs Alexander Shanks
& Son, Ltd., Dens Iron Works, Ar-
broath, but had been transferred to
their London office. For three years
before leaving Arbroath he had been
secretary of the "Men's Own." In
London he joined the 6th Battalion
Royal Fusiliers, being later trans-
ferred to the 8th Battalion, and was
attached to the 10th Battalion West
Surrey Regt. After some months'
training at Dover, Private Anderson
was sent to France in June 1916. He
received a gun-shot wound in the
chest on the 27th of July 1916, and
died in hospital the following day.
He was buried in the military
cemetery at Bailleul. His Captain
wrote: — "He was a good soldier,
liked by everyone in his company.
There was a call for volunteers for a
job, and he was one of the first to
tome forward. He went through a
lot, and the job was a success."

Private James Ritchie, Tyneside

Scottish, Northumberland Fusiliers,
51 Sidney Street, Arbroath, was the
son of John Ritchie and of his wife
Betsy Jolly, 47 Kinnaird Street. He
was thirty-four years of age. and
married Jane Connie. He was em-
ployed in Glasgow as a shunter. He
joined the army in 1915, and was
killed in action during the advance
on the Somme in 1916.

GUNR. ALEX. CARGILL, R.F.A.

Gunner Alexander Cargill,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-five
years of age, was the son of Alex.
Cargill, 17 Union Street East. Ar-
broath. He was wounded in July
1916, and was taken at once by motor
ambulance to the hospital, but died
on entering it. He was buried in a
British cemetery in France.

PTE. BEATTTE, CAMERONIANS.

Private David Beattie. Scottish
Rifles, was the son of David Beattie.
Upper Victoria, Carnoustie. He was
killed in action on the 10th of March
1915 at the battle of Neuve Chapelle.

PTE. DAVIDSON, ROYAL SCOTS.

PTE. GEO. PHILIP, GORDONS.

Private Thomas Barnett David-
son, 11th Royal Scots, was the only
son of Thomas B. Davidson and of
his wife Ann Jardine, 9 Cairnie
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty
years of age and was employed as a
baker in Montrose when he joined
the army in May 1915. He went to
France in December of that year,
and was killed in action at the
battle of the Somme on the 14th of
July 1916

L-CPL. MILLER, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal William Miller,
Black Watch, twenty-one years of
age, was the son of Alexander Miller,
8 Carnegie Street, Arbroath. Lance-
Corporal Miller, previous to joining
the colours, had been employed at the
Abbey Leather Works. He had been
serving at the front from early in the
war, and was wounded in the arm at
the battle of Neuve ChapelLe. On
the 6th of August 1916 he was again
wounded, and died the same day.
Lance-Corporal Miller's brother, Ser-
geant George Miller, was killed in
May of the previous year.

Private George Philip, 1st Gor-
don Highlanders, who was twenty-
six years of age, was the son of Mrs
Soutar, 143 Panmure Terrace, Car-
noustie. He was employed at Ar-
broath railway station as a porter.
He enlisted in the Gordon High-
landers in 1908, and went out to
Egypt in a draft for the 2nd Gordon
Highlanders. He went to France in
1914, and was seriously wounded in
the first battle of Ypres. After

nearly' a year's leave he returned to
France, and was transferred to the
1st Gordon Highlanders. Private
Philip was killed in action in Delville
Wood on the 18th of July 1916. He
was at first reported missing, but
his body was afterwards found by a
machine gun party when they were
clearing a position for their guns.

PTE. J. RAMSAY, S. AFRICANS.

Private James Ramsay, South
African Rifles, who was fifty years of
age, was the son of George Ramsay,
Whitewell Cottage, Arbroath. He
was killed when on service in East
Africa on the 4th of July 1916.

CAPT. W. HARRIS, M.C., R.S F.

PTE. MURRAY, ROYAL SCOTS.

Captain W. T. Harris, M.C.,
Royal Scots Fusiliers, twenty-four
years of age, was the son of William
Harris and of his wife Marjory
Whyte, 8 Hillington Park Circus,
Glasgow. He was trained as an en-
gineer with the Fairfield Shipbuild-
ing and Engineering Company. He
was one of the original members of
the Glasgow University Officers'
Training Corps, and in February
1915 joined the army as 2nd lieut.
in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and went
to France a few months later. In
July 1916 he was promoted to the
rank of captain and was awarded the
Military Cross. Very shortly after-
wards, at the battle of the Somme,
on the 30th of July 1916, Captain
Harris was reported wounded and
missing. His Colonel said that the
fighting on that day was very severe,
and the casualties heavy. He also
wrote: — "I had formed a very high
opinion of him indeed as a soldier.
He was extremely practical, sound,
and a thoroughly reliable officer, and
had at times been of the very
greatest assistance to me. I had just
given him command of a company."

Private George Murray, 17th
Royal Scots, 32 Rossie Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Robert
Murray and of his wife Ann King,
60 Fergus Square, Arbroath. He
was twenty-three years of age, and
married Mary Bouiek Brown. He
was employed as under foreman at
the Nursery Mills, Arbroath. In
November 1915 he joined the 17th
Royal Scots, and went later with his
regiment to France, where he died
of wounds on the 21st of July 1916.

PTE. FALCONER, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private Tom Falconer, Royal
Scots, was the son of J. Falconer,
market gardener, 63 Queen Street,
Carnoustie. He was twenty years of
age, and before the outbreak of war
was in the employment of Mr Grieve,
farmer, Rotten Row, Carnoustie. He
was one of the first of the Carnoustie
recruits to enlist. Private Falconer
was killed in action in July 1916.
His eldest brother, Lance-Sergeant
Falconer, was wounded at Mons and
died two days later, on the 28th of
August 1914.

PTE. DAVID M'GREGOR, R.S.F.

PTE. ROBERT CARGILL, R.S.F.

Private David M'Gregor, Sig-
naller, B Company, 2nd Battalion
Royal Scots Fusiliers, was the son of
David M'Gregor, Watson Crescent,
Edinburgh, formerly of 44 Ernest
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
one years of age, and was serving
his apprenticeship as an engineer at
Dens Iron Works, Arbroath, when he
enlisted in February 1915. After
six months' training at Fort Matilda,
near Greenock, he went to France in
September. Private M'Gregor was
posted missing on the 30th of July
1916 at Guillemont, and was after-
wards reported killed on that date.

L-CPL. D. CARRIE, SEAFORTHS.

Lance-Corporal David Carrie,
Seaforth Highlanders, was the son of
David Carrie, 42J East Abbey Street,
Arbroath. He was thirty-two years
of age, and left a widow and family.
Lance-Corporal Carrie was killed in
action in July 1916. He was the
second of 'his family to lose his life
at the front, his brother, Private
Peter Carrie, having fallen in the
battle of Loos.

Private Robert Cargill, 2nd Royal
Scots Fusiliers, was the son of David
Cargill, and of his wife Elizabeth
Swankie, 21 South Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty years of age, and was
employed as a labourer at Dens Iron
Works when he enlisted in the 2nd
Royal Scots Fusiliers in September
1914. He went to France at the be-
ginning of 1916, and took part in the
fighting on the Somme front. On
the 30th of July 1916 Private Cargill
was reported missing at Guillemont,
during the Somme offensive, and
was afterwards presumed to have
been killed on that date. His brother,
Lance-Corporal David Cargill, was
killed four months later.

SIGNALLER R. MYLES, B.W.

Signaller Russel Myles, 4th
Black Watch, 6 Panmure Street, Car-
noustie, was before the war a post-
man in Dundee. He went to France
early in 1915, and in September died
of wounds received in action. A

comrade wrote : — ' ' I only hope to
die as bravely as he did — he died a
hero's death, doing his duty."

LIEUT. R. MACOONALD, A.I.F.

DRIVER DAVID PATTULLO, R.E.

Lieutenant Ronald Alexander
Leslie Macdonald, 1st Light Horse,
Australian Imperial Force, twenty-
seven years of age, was the son of
Alexander Macdonald and of his wife
Elizabeth Price, Erudgere, New South
Wales. He was the nephew cf
W. K. Macdonald, Town Clerk of
Arbroath, and of F. F. Macdonald
of Lochlands. Previous to joining
the army, which he did at an early
stage in the war, Lieutenant Mac-
donald was a sheep farmer at Erud-
gere. He enlisted as a private in
the 1st Australian Light Horse, and
afterwards obtained a commission in
the same regiment. He was wounded
in the Gallipoli campaign. Later he
served with the Egyptian Expedi-
tionary Force, and was killed in
action at the head of his men on the
morning of the 9th of August 1916.
He was buried at the top of the First
Ridge, half a mile west of Hod el
Hisba, Egypt, near which he fell. A
tablet to his memory was erected in
the Parish Church of Arbroath, and
was unveiled by Rev. Professor
Cooper, D.D., Moderator of the
Church of Scotland, in June 1917.

Drivrr David Patttjllo, Royal
Engineers, twenty-four years of age,
was the eldest son of David Pattullo
and of hi.s wife Ann Edwards, 69
Helen Street, Arbroath. Refore the
war he had been a ploughman in the
Dundee district. He joined the army
in May 1915, and had been for six
months at the front in France. On
the 30th of July 1916 he was severely
wounded by a bomb dropped from a
German aeroplane, and was taken to
No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station,
where he died the next day.

PTE. J. AFFLECK, S. AFRICANS.

Private James Affleck, South
African Contingent, son of William
Affleck, Charles Street, Carnoustie,
was twenty-nine years of age. Re-
fore going to France he had been
through the West African fighting,
along with his two brothers, Tom
and Forbes. Tom also served for
some time on the ,Western front and
when lying wounded in a French hos-
pital sent home the news that his
brother had been killed in action
there.

SIGNALLER J. KERR, R.F.A.

PTE. A. PAUL, BLACK WATCH.

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Signaller John Kerr, Royal Field
Artillery, was the son of David Kerr,
9 Fergus Square, Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age and, previous
to enlistment, had been serving his
apprenticeship as an engineer with
Messrs Alexander Shanks & Son,
Ltd. In October 1914 he joined the
army as a gunner in the Forfarshire
Battery of the R.F.A. He was serv-
ing at the front for over a year, and
was acting as a signaller at the
time of his death. During the ad-
vance on the Somme, on the 10th of
August 1916, he was struck by a
piece of shrapnel while in the
trenches, and died at Dernancourt
the following day.

SGT-MAJOR CARTER, K.O.S.B.

Company Sergeant-Major G. E.
Carter, K.O.S.B., Berwick-on-Tweed,
was, before being called up, engaged
by the Carnoustie Corporation, and
was also for a time in the Taymouth
Engineering Works. He had pre-
viously served seven years in the
K.O.S.B. He was killed in action
at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

Private Alexander Paxil, 6th
Black Watch, was the son of Alex-
ander Paul, Hodgeton, Inverkeilor.
He was twenty-two years of age and
before enlisting he was employed as
a ploughman at West Hall, Dundee.
He joined the army as a private in
the 6th Black Watch in August 1915,
and had served in France for nearly
a year when he was wounded in the
thigh and chest and taken prisoner.
He died a month later, on the 15th
of August 1916, a prisoner of war in
Germany.

PTE. MASSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Peter Masson, Black
Watch, twenty-two years of age, was
the son of Douglas Masson, cabinet-
maker, Tayview Buildings, Broughty
Ferry, and grandson of ex-Poilce
Sergeant William Masson, Helen
Street, Arbroath. Prior to his en-
listment Private Masson was a clerk
at the Dundee East Station. He
had been in the army for about a
year when he was killed at the battle
of the Somme, on the 3rd of Sep-
tember 1916.

SGT. DAVID S. HOGG, R.F.A. PTE. JOHN CORMIE, SEAFORTHS

Sergeant David Scott Hogg,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son ot
David Hogg and of his wife Jessie
Murray, Denfield, Arbroath. He
was twenty-three years of age, and
was unmarried. He was a gardener,
but for about a year before joining
the army he had been a member of
the Forfarshire Constabulary, and
was stationed at Carnoustie. He was
the first to fall of ten members of
the County Constabulary who had
joined the colours. He joined the
Boyal Field Artillery in September
1914 as a gunner, and had served
only three months when he was pro-
moted. Sergeant Hogg went to
France in June 1915, and was killed
in action at the battle of the Somme
on the 25th of August 1916. His
captain said that Sergeant D. S.
Hogg was an exceptionally keen and
efficient sergeant, and shortly before
his death had been recommended for
the Military Medal for consistent
good work with his battery in France.
One of his brothers, Private George
Hogg, Scots Guards, was killed in
September 1915, and another served
with the Black Watch.

Pbivate John Cormie, Seaforth
Highlanders, was the brother of Mrs
A. Petrie, 19 Park Street, Arbroath.
He belonged to Burghead, was
twenty-five years of age, and had
married Helen Fraser, Buckie, who,
with their daughter, resided with Mrs
Petrie. Private Comrie was a sea-
man, and acted as fireman before en-
listing in November 1914. He had
been a year at the front when he was
killed by a shell while returning to
the trenches during the Somme ad-
vance, on the 18th of August 1916.

PTE. SIMPSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Albert Simpson, Black
Watch, twenty-one years of age,
was the elder son of William Simp-
son, Invertay, Carnoustie, who him-
self holds a medal and three clasps
for service in the Egyptian war. Pri-
vate Albert Simpson was by trade a
moulder, and, prior to enlistment,
had been employed in Taymouth En-
gineering Works, Carnoustie. He
had served at the front from Novem-
ber 1914, and was killed in action on
the 3rd of August 1916.

L-CPL. FRED. FALCONER, R.S.F. PTE. THOMSON, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal Fred. M. Fal-
coner, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was
the youngest son of Alexander Fal-
coner, 84 Ireland Street, Carnoustie.
He was twenty years of age and was
employed as a vanman by Mr Nicol,
Carnoustie. He joined the army in
February 1916 as a private in the
Royal Scots Fusiliers. After a few
months' training at Fort Matilda,
Greenock, Lance-Corporal Falconer
left for France in July, and died
from wounds received on the 26th of
August 1916 at Delville Wood.

Private Roy Thomson, 5th Black
Watch, was the only son of Alex-
ander Thomson, grieve, and of his
wife Barbara Mitchell, Redcastle,
Inverkeilor. He was only sixteen
years of age, and had been a farm
servant at West Drums, Brechin. He
joined the 5th Black Watch in August
1915, and after about a year's train-
ing, went to France. He had been
only a few months at the front when
he was killed in action on the
Somme, on the 3rd of September
1916.

PTE. MURRAY, BLACK WATCH.

Private David Murray, Black
Watch, Olive Cottage, Carnoustie,
was previous to the war engaged as
a ploughman. He had been nineteen
months at the front, and was killed
in action during the Somme advance
in 1916. An officer, writing of him,
said he was "the cheeriest man in
the company. No march was too
long, and nothing too fatiguing but
that he finished the job whistling and
singiifg, and by his cheeriness he
cheered those around him."

2nd.-LD3UT. KYD, R, WARWICKS.

Second-Lieutenant F. P. Kyd,
East Surrey Regiment (attached to
the Royal Warwick s), was the elder
son of John Kyd, manager of the
National Bank of India, Madras. Be-
fore going to India Mr John Kyd was
teller, in the Arbroath branch of the
British Linen Bank, and had many
friends in the town and district.
Second-Lieutenant Kyd was killed
in action on the 18th of August
1916 during the advance on the
Somme.

PTE. WM, SIM, DORSET REGT. PTE. WILSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Sim, 5th Dorset
Regiment, twenty-nine years of age,
was the son of Richard Sim, 83
Prinlaws, Leslie, Fifeshire, formerly
of Arbroath, and of his wife Jessie
Ferrier. He was twenty-nine years
of age and was unmarried. Before
the outbreak of war lie was employed
as a miner with the Fife Coal Com-
pany, Kinglassie. He had served
for nearly five years as a stoker in
the Royal Navy, but took his dis-
charge, and on the 7th of August

1914 he enlisted in the 5th Dorset
Regiment. He went to the Dar-
danelles in May 1915, and was killed
in action on the 22nd of August

1915 at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, during
a charge by the Dorsets. Private
Sim came of a very patriotic family.
His father, an old Arbroathian, was
a soldier, and although sixty years
of age, joined the Black Watch in
1915 and served a year, but was dis-
charged when conscription came into
force. A younger brother came from
Australia and enlisted in the King's
Own Scottish Borderers, but having
been wounded at Ypres he was after-
wards discharged from the army.

Private Robert Shepherd Wil-
son, 5th Black Watch, was the son
of John Wilson and of his wife Jessie
Hardy Shepherd, Mainsbank Farm,
Inverkeilor. He was twenty-two
years of age, unmarried, and until
the time of his enlisting he was em-
ployed as a farm servant at Park-
conon, near Arbroath. He joined the
army in June 1915 as a private in
the 5th Black Watch. Private
Wilson was killed by a sniper on the
3rd of September 1916.

PTE. JAS. P. CADOGAN, H.L.I.

Private James Paterson Cadogan,
16th Battalion Highland Light In-
fantry, twenty years of age, was the
oldest son of Edward Cadogan, 30
Auehmithie, near Arbroath. He was
employed as a ploughman at Mains
of Letham when he enlisted in the
5th Black Watch in April 1916. Later
he was transferred to the Highland
Light Infantry, and after a short
period of training went to France.
He was reported missing on the 18th
of November 1916, and was presumed
to have died on that date.

PTE. J. LUNDIE, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. ALEX. MANN, CAMERONS.

Private James Lundie, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of John Lundie
and of his wife Agnes Johnstone, 4
Reform Street, Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age, and had been
working at the Westburn Foundry
before the war. He had joined the
Territorials in 1913, and he went to
France with his battalion in Novem-
ber 1914. He fought at Neuve
Chapelle, Festubert. Givenehy, and
Loos, and escaped unwounded until
the battle of the Somme when he was
shot through the head and instan-
taneously killed on the 3rd of Septem-
ber 1916. Private Lundie had three
brothers serving in the Royal Navy
and one in the 4th Gordon High-
landers, 51st Division, who was
wounded in July 1918.

PTE. THOMSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Peter Thomson, Black
Watch, was the son of Robert Thom-
son, 4 Peddie Street, Dundee, for-
merly of Arbroath. He was twenty
years of age, and was killed in action
at the battle of the Somme on the
14th of July 1916.

Private Alexander Mann,
Cameron Highlanders, was the son
of Alexander Mann and of his
wife Jane Lawson, Kinnell, Friock-
heim. He was twenty-five years of
age, and had married Jean Smart.
He was a grocer with Messrs Cooper
& Company, Perth, when he joined
the army in April 1916. Private
Mann was posted as missing on the
3rd of September 1916. and was
officially reported killed on that date.

L-CPL. LAMB, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal Sidney Lamb,
Black Watch, was the youngest son
of Mrs Lamb, Glenogil Terrace, Car-
noustie. He was twenty-four years
of age, and was on the clerical staff
of Messrs William Briggs & Sons'
chemical works, Dundee. Lanoe-
Corporal Lamb was well-known in
local sporting circles as a golfer and
a cricketer, hut more especially as a
footballer. He was killed in action
on the 21st of September 1916. His
eldest brother, a mercantile captain,
was a prisoner in Germany, and an-
other brother served with the colours.

SGT. E. FORD, D.C.M., B.W.

PTE. MELDRUM, BLACK WATCH

Sergeant Edward Ford, D.C.M.,
1st Black Watch, was the son of Geo.
Ford and of his wife Annie Robertson,
59 Kinnaird Street, Arbroath. Be-
fore the war he was employed as a
joiner with Messrs J. & R. W. Siev-
wright. He had, however, joined the
army in August 1905 as a private in
the 1st Black Watch., and had served
seven and a half years with the
colours, five and a half of which were
spent in India. He held the medal
of the 1911 Durbar at Delhi, and had
been one and a half years on the Army
Reserve before mobilisation. He was
promoted corporal after the first
battle of Ypres, and sergeant after
La Bassee. In October 1915 he won
the D.O.M., which was awarded for
consistent attention to duty through-
out the campaign. On one occasion
he rallied and led forward his platoon
under very heavy fire. Sergeant
Ford was on active service in France
for over two years, and had been in
every engagement from Mons on-
wards. He came through scathless
until the Somme advance, when he
was killed by a sniper at High Wood
on the 3rd of September 1916.

Private George Meldrum, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of George
Meldrum. 11 River Street, Brechin,
and grandson of Mrs Grant, 7 St
Vigeans Road, Arbroath. He was
employed as a lapperat the Caldhame
Works, Brechin, when he joined the
army in 1915. He was killed in

France on the 3rd of September 1916.

GUNNER WM. LOWNIE, R.F.A.

Gunner William Lownie, Royal
Field Artillery, thirty-one years of
age. was the son of John Lownie and
of his wife Caroline Teviotdale, 9,J
Dishland Street, Arbroath. He was
a miner in Dunfermline when he
joined the army in September 1914.
He served in France for over a year,
and was killed on the 3rd of July
1916. His major said that he was
one of two who volunteered to make
an observation post in one of the cap-
tured German trenches, and was thus
engaged when he was killed by a stray
bullet; also that he was one of his
best workers, for whom he had the
greatest respect and a sincere feeling
of affection, as had all the men.

PTE. HARRY ALEXANDER, B.W.

PTE. G. CRAIG, BLACK WATCH.

Pkivate Harry Alexander, 5th
Black Watch, eighteen years of age,
was the son of W. D. Alexander, post-
man, and of Mrs Alexander, 6 Gowan
Street, Arbroath. Before joining

the army in May 1915 Private Alex-
ander was serving his apprenticeship
as an engineer at the Dens Iron
Works. After three months' mili-
tary training he went to France, and
served at the front for a year. He
was reported missing on the 3rd of
September 1916 at the battle of Guil-
lemont, on the Somme, and he was
presumed to have been killed on or
about that date. Private Alexander
had an older brother serving in the
Scots Guards.

PTE. A. M'GREGOR, H.L.I.

Private Arthur M'Gregor, High-
land Light Infantry, nineteen years
of age, was the son of Geo. M'Gregor,
East Balmirmer. He died of wounds
received in action in October 1916.
Private M'Gregor had four brothers
at the front, two with the New Zea-
land forces, one with the Canadians,
and one in the Black Watch.

Private George CRaig, Black
Watch, nineteen years of age, was a
son of John Craig, formerly of Ordie,
Oathlaw, and of Mrs Craig, 15 Cul-
loden Road, Arbroath. Before join-
ing the army in December 1915, he
was employed as a grocer with the
West Port Association, Ltd. He had
been for three months at the front
in France when he was reported mis-
sing on the 3rd of September 1916,
and it was presumed he was killed on
that date at Thiepval during the ad-
vance on the Somme.

PTE. THOS. ROBERTSON, K.R.R,

Private Thomas Robertson,
King's Royal Rifles, son of J. Robert-
son, Brown Street, Carnoustie, was
a member of the Metropolitan Police,
and was one of twenty chosen for ser-
vice as policemen in Rhodesia, where
he was for five years. He saw two
years' active service there, and at
the outbreak of war he returned to
join the home forces. He was fatally
wounded at the front in 1916. Pri-
vate Robertson had three brothers
serving with the colours.

PTE. RAMSAY, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. ROBERT S. SCOTT, B.W.

Stretcher-Bearer David Ramsay,
1st Black Watch, 10 North Bank
Street, Clydebank, was the son of
David Ramsay, flaxdiiesser, and of
his wife Hannah Donaldson, 21
Sidney Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-eight years of age, and had
married Margaret Muir, and left one
son. He was an ironturner by trade,
and had served his apprenticeship at
the Westburn Foundry. Later he
went to Messrs Singer, at Ivilbowie.
Private Ramsay was well-known in
Arbroath as a member of the Burgh
Instrumental Band, in which he
played the trombone and on going to
the West Country he became asso-
ciated with the famous Clydebank
Band, being a member of that band
on three occasions when it carried oft
the Scottish championship. He en-
listed in Glasgow in February 1915,
and had been fourteen months at the
front. In France he played the

trombone in the Black Watch Band,
and acted as stretcher-bearer in
strenuous times. He was killed in
action on the 3rd of September 1916.
His brother, Peter, also served in the
Black Watch in France.

Private Robert Spexce Scott, 1st
Black Watch, was the fourth son of
George Scott. 23 Jamieson Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-eight
years of age, and was one of three
brothers serving with the colours, one
being in the Black Watch, and one in
the R.F.A. Private Scott had been
en enginedriver with the East India
Railway Company at Tundla, but he
came home and joined the 1st Black
Watch in July 1915. He went with
his battalion to the front in Novem-
ber of that year, and was killed dur-
ing the capture of Highwood on the
4th of September 1916. His platoon
officer wrote : — "By his death we
have lost a valued and cheerful com-
rade of our regiment — a good and
brave soldier."

CORPL. COULL, ROYAL SCOTS.

Corporal Stewart M'Leod Coull,
Royal Scots, was the youngest son
of Mr Coull, Smith's Place House.
Leith, and nephew of William Coull.
Ethiehaven, near Arbroath. He was
killed in action in France on the 16th
of September 1916.

PTE. G. DINNIE, BLACK WATCH.

GNR. THOMAS MAGUIRE, R.G.A.

Private George Dinnie, Black
Watch, twentj'-one years of age, was
a son of David Dinnie and of his
wife Margaret Bowman, 37 Leonard
Street, Arbroath. When he joined
tlie 5th Black Watch on the 18th
of May 1915 he was in the em-
ployment of Corsar Brothers, Apple-
gate Works, as a flaxdnesser. He
underwent military training at
Ripon, and crossed to France in
January 1916. Soon afterwards he
took part in the fighting, and was
wounded, but not so severely as to
lead to his being sent to this country
for treatment. On the 3rd of Sep-
tember 1916 Private Dinnie was en-
gaged in a battle on the Somme when
he sustained serious wounds in the
chest and facie, and died at the 35th
Casualty Clearing Station on the 13th
of the same month. Private Dinnie
had three brothers in the army. Pri-
vate James Dinnie, M.M., enlisted
in the Black Watch, but was trans-
ferred to the Seaforths, and after-
wards to a machine gun corps. Pri-
vate Charles Dinnie served in the
Black Watch in Egypt; and Private
James Dinnie in the 1st Black Watch.

Gunner Thomas Maguire, Royal
Garrison Artillery, was the son of
Thomas Maguire, Ballinshoe. Kirrie-
muir, formerly of Kinniell, and of his
wife Janet M'lntosh. He was
twenty-seven years of age, and was
unmarried. Before joining the army
he was a police constable stationed at
Perth. He enlisted in November
1915 as a gunner in the Royal Garri-
son Artillery, and after three months'
training went to France. Gunner
Maguire was killed instantaneously
by a shell in the fierce fighting at
the Sommie on the 15th of September
1916. His officers looked upon him
as one of the most conscientious and
hard-working men of the battery.

L-CPL. WILLIAM WALKER, B.W.

Lance-Corporal William Walker,
Black Watch, was the son of Andrew
Walker, Westgate, formerly of Pit-
muies Mill, Friockheim. He was

twenty-two years of age, and had
been at the front sine© November
1914. He was severely wounded in
the head and died in France on 21st
September 1916.

LIEUT. KITSON, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. W. HERD, SCOTS GUARDS.

Lieutenant Frederick Neil Ed-
monstone Kitson, 5th Black Watch,
thirty-one years of age, was the son
of the Rev. John Francis Kitson,
Vicar of Antony, Cornwall, and of his
wife Charlotte Edmonstone, daughter
of Admiral Sir William Edmonstone,
Bart, of Duntreath. He was a nephew
of Mrs Duncan, Parkhill, near Ar-
broath, and helped in the manage-
ment of the estate. Before the war
Lieutenant Kitson was a very popu-
lar officer in the county battalion of
the Black Watch (T.F.). He went
to the front with the battalion in
November 1914. In 1915 he was
wounded by a sniper at Neuve
Chapelle, and in January 1916 he was
mentioned in despatches by Field-
Marshal French. Lieutenant Kitson
was later in charge of the transport
department of the brigade, under
Brigadier-General Stewart. On the
14th of September 1916 both were
going up to the trenches when
General Stewart was killed outright
and Lieutenant Kitson was mortally
wounded by the same shell. Lieuten-
ant Kitson was buried in the Cite
Bon Jean Cemetery at Armentieres.

Private William Herd, 2nd Scots
Guards, twenty-four years of age,
was the son of David Herd and of
his wife Margaret Ramsay, East-
haven. Private Herd had been a
porter at Easthaven Station, and
later was a farm servant at Inver-
peffer. He joined Kitchener's Army
in January 1915, and at one time his
battalion had the honour of forming
the King's bodyguard at Buckingham
Palace. He had been at the front
about six months when he was re-
ported as wounded and missing on
the 16th of September 1916 at
Givenchy. Later it was notified that
he had been buried near Combles.

PTE. H. MANN, CANADIANS.

Private Henry L. Mann, Cana-
dian Contingent, was the son of Wm.
Mann and of his wife Emma Peters,
42 Dishlandtown Street, Arbroath.
He was killed at the front during
the Somme advance on the 26th of
September 1916, his death being
caused by a piece of shrapnel, which
struck him while he was asleep in
his dugout.

PTE. G. R. SHERIFF, CAMERONS.

PTE. C. WEIR, BLACK WATCH.

Private George Ross Sheriff, 2nd
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,
was the eldest son of Fred Sheriff,
mason, and of his wife Jemima
Barrie, 24 Ladybridge Street. Ar-
broath. He was a patternmaker at
the Dens Iron Works, in the last
year of his apprenticeship, when he
enlisted in January 1915. After serv-
ing for seven months in France he
was sent to Salonica, where he saw
eleven months' service. He was
wounded in action in the Struma
Valley, and died on 2nd October 1916
at an ambulance station at Salonica.
His platoon officer wrote of Private
Sheriff: — "I looked upon him as one
of my best men, and one in whom I
had full confidence."

PTE. A. D. ELLIS, CANADIANS.

Private Arthur David Ellis,
28th Canadians, was the son of David
Ellis, signalman, Leysmill. He was
twenty-six years of age, and was in
Canada when war was declared. He
at once joined up and came over to
France, where he was killed in
action on the 6th of June 1916.

Private Charles Weir, 5th Black
Watch, was a grandson of Charles
Weir, 43 Panmure Street, Arbroath.
He was eighteen years of age, and
prior to enlisting was an apprentice
ironmoulder in the employment of
Alex. Shanks & Son, Ltd., Dens
Iron Works. He joined the 5th

Black Watch in September 1914 and
went to France three months later.
He was killed in action on the 14th
of October 1916.

PTE. J. MANBY, SCOTS GUARDS.

Private J. Manby, Scots Guards,
133 Kinloch Street, Carnoustie, was
employed by the Carnoustie Town
Council as a stoker at the Gasworks.
In golfing circles he was well-
known. He joined the colours in
January 1915, and was killed in
action on the 15th of September 1916.
Private Manby' s younger brother,
Alexander, was a member of the
Black Watch (regulars!). He came
with his regiment from India at the
outbreak of war, and was killed in
action a few months before his
brother.

CAPT. DAVID FREW, R.A.M.C. PTE. DAVID S. MUNDIN, B.W.

Captain David T. C. Frew.
Royal Army Medical Corps, twenty-
nine years of age, was the son cf
David Alison Frew, formerly of Ar-
broath, and of his wife Ann Eliza-
beth Berrey, 9 Burnbank Terrace,
Glasgow. He married Marie Louise
Henrietta, daughter of Fernand
Lusien Perregaux, M.D., Paris. Dr
Frew's work at the Royal Infirmary
and the Western Medical School,
Glasgow, where he was lecturing in
anatomy, kept him from joining the
army at once when war broke out.
He became a lieutenant in the Royal
Army Medical Corps in 1915, and in
June of that year was sent to France,
where he served as one of the staff of
the Twenty-fourth General Field
Hospital at Etaples. He afterwards
joined the Seventh Field Ambulance
at the front in the Ypres salient and
was wounded there. Captain Frew
later took over the duties of medical
officer to the London Rifle Brigade,
and after several months with that
corps he had a short leave and re-
joined at Aldershot. He died on the
29th of September 1916 in the Cam-
bridge Hospital there.

Private David Spence Mundin.
5th Black Watch, Mansion House,
Arrott Street, Arbroath, was the son
of Henry Mundin and of his wife
Elizabeth Spence, Lochland Street.
He married Williamina Nicol Barnet
and left two sons and a daughter.
He was twenty-seven years of
age. Before the war he was a
postman. He joined the 5th Black
Watch in July 1915, and went to
France in February 1916. After one
year and three months' service he
was killed at the battle of the Somme
when his platoon made a charge over
the open on the 14th of October 1916.

L-CPL. ARTHUR WHYTOCK, B.W.

Lance-Cobporal Arthur Why-
tock. Black Watch, 5 Wallace Street,
Arbroath, was a farm servant at
Nether Kelly before he joined the
army. He had been at, the front
about fourteen months when he was
killed in action on the 3rd of Sep-
tember 1916. His Commanding
Officer wrote that the company had
sustained a great loss in Private
Why took' s death.

PTE. W. CRUICKSHANKS, B.W.

PTE. HARRY BISSET, B.W.

Private William W. Cruick-
shanks, 5th Black Watch, was a son
of George Cruickshanks, 22 Helen
Street, Arbroatli. He was twenty-
one years of age, and before the war
was an apprentice moulder at the
Dens Iron Works. He had joined
the Territorials in March 1911, and
he left for France with his battalion
on 28th of October 1914. For a year
and ten months he was on active
service. On the 12th of October 1916.
at the battle of the Somme, he
was severely wounded in the head
and chest by a rifle bullet. He was
taken to a Base Hospital, and died
froim wounds the following day.

Private Harry Bisset, 5th Black
Watch, 31 Elliot Street, Arbroath,
was the son of Alexander Bisset and
of his wife Mary Kennedy, 45 West
Grimsby, Arbroath. He married
Agnes R. Gaxden, and left two sons
and two daughters. He was twenty-
nine years of age and had been under-
foreman with Messrs Douglas Fraser
& Sons. He joined the 5th Black
Watch Territorials in 1905, and was
mobilised in August 1914. He went
to France in November, and was re-
ported wounded and missing on the
14th of October 1916. and it was sup-
posed that he had fallen in a charge
made by his battalion on that date.

PTE. J. STEWART. CANADIANS.

Private James Stewart, Cana-
dians, was the grandson of John
Anderson, West Newton and Sea-
field, Arbroath. He was in the Prince
Albert Branch of the Union Bank of
Canada, and volunteered for service
on the declaration of war. He went
to the front in September 1915, and
was killed in action on the 25th of
September 1916.

PTE. JOHN COOK, CANADIANS.

Private John Cook, Canadian
Contingent, Toronto, was the son of
John Cook, farmer, Bank of Arbir-
lot, near Arbroath. He was thirty-
eight years of age, was married, and
left five children. He was killed in
action on the 16th of September 1916.
Private Cook had a brother in the
army who acted as a shoeing smith
at the front.

L-CPL, DAVIDSON, D.C.M., B.W.

PTE. R. DOYLE, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal James Davidson,
D.O.M., 5th Black Watch, was a son
of Charles Davidson and of his wife
Ann Middleton, 43 Hannah Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty -three
years of age, and was a miner at
Methil. He enlisted in August 1914,
and was one of the first draft to
leave for the front. Lance-Corporal
Davidson was a stretcher-hearer, and
was twice mentioned in despatches,
and was also awarded the Distin-
guished Conduct Medal for con-
spicuous deeds of gallantry in
carrying the wounded off the field.
On one occasion he had a very
narrow escape. While dressing

a wounded companion something
struck his hack. On opening his

haversack he found two bullets, and
his tin of bully beef had been badly
dented. He was wounded in May

1915, and invalided home. On his
recovery he returned to France, and
fell in action on the 14th of October

1916. His mother was personally pre-
sented with his D.C.M. at Holyrood
Palace by his Grace the Duke of
Montrose in May 1916. She had
three other sons in the* service.

Private Richard Doyt.e, 5th
Black Watch, 35 Fisheracre, Ar-
broath, was the son of Arthur
Doyle, and of his wife Ann Smith,
40 Maule Street. He married Mary
Bogie, and left one son. Private
Doyle was twenty-three years of age,
and was employed with Messrs
Keitli it Blackman Co.. Ltd. As a
Territorial he was mobilised in
August 1914, and after fourteen
months' service he returned from
France as a time-expired man. In
July 1916 he re-enlisted voluntarily,
but had been two months back on
active service when he was wounded,
and died in a casualty clearing station
on the 16th of October 1916.

PTE. ARTHUR DAVIDSON, N.Z.

Private Arthur Davidson, New
Zealand Contingent, was a native of
Friockheim, and was, before going to
New Zealand, employed at the Friock-
heim Bleachfield. When the call to
arms came he and his younger
brother, Mark, gave a ready response.
He was killed in action in France in
October 1916.

PTE. D. J. C. IRELAND, A. & S.H.

PTE. ARTHUR C. PETRIE, B.W.

Private David John Campbell
Ireland, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders, who was thirty-six
years of age and unmarried, was the
only son of James Ireland, Bannety
and Lappie, and of Mrs Ireland,
East Balmirmer, Arbroath. After his
father's death he managed the farm
in conjunction with his mother, and
though he might have stayed at
home he considered that it was his
duty to go to the front rather than
his grieve, who was a man with a
family. He joined the 14th Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders on the
22nd of July 1915, and afterwards
was transferred to the 2nd Battalion
of tlie same regiment. On the 31st
of October 1916 Private Ireland was
killed instantaneously by shell fire
while on duty in the trenches on the
Somrae. He was buried at the foot
of what was known as '"The Lone
Tree," about five hundred yards in
front of Les Boeufs. His platoon
commander wrote: — " We one and
all were extremely sorry to lose so
good a comrade, and still miss him ;
he was always cheery and gave of his
best. He died an honourable death."

Private Arthur C. Petrie, 5th
Black Watch, nineteen years of age,
was the son of John Petrie, and of
his wife Mary Jane Davidson, 40
Cairnie Street, Arbroath. He was a
maehineman in the Westburn Foun-
dry and joined the 5th Black Watch
in October 1914. He had been about
two years in France and had under-
gone the terrible experience of being
buried by a shell which necessitated
some time in hospital. He was re-
ported missing on the 14th of October
1916. On that date the 5th Black
Watch were in action between
Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval. The
ground was so full of shell holes that
many men disappeared, leaving no
trace, and it is presumed that Private
Petrie must have fallen at that time.
The battalion took at least two Ger-
man lines and held them till relieved.

PTE. M'COMBIE, SEAFORTHS.

Private Joseph Robertson
M'Combie, Seaforth Highlanders,
Arbroath, thirty-six years of age,
was killed in action in France on
the 13th of November 1916.

CAPT. ALEX. R. GIBB, R.F.A. PTE. WILLIAM M. FOULIS, R.E.

Captain Alexander Reid Gibb,
Royal Field Artillery, Arbroath,
forty-one years of age, was the son
of John Smith Gibb, Treasurer of
the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Com-
mission. After leaving Edinburgh
University, he was for some time
with Mr J. Gordon Mason, S.S.C..
Edinburgh, and in 1906 he entered
into partnership with Mr H. Victor
Neill, solicitor, Arbroath. Captain
Gibb was well-known when in Edin-
burgh as an athlete and an all-round
sportsman and he was at one time a
prominent cross-country runner. In
Arbroath he took a keen interest in
tennis, and when called away on
active service he was treasurer of the
Club. He was also an enthusiastic
golfer, and as a member of the Ar-
broath Club was a winner of the
Storrer Cup. As a Freemason he
was a member of Lodge Panmure
(No. 299) and held the office of
Deputy-Master. To the Arbroath

Literary Club he had contributed in-
teresting papers. Soon after com-
ing to Arbroath he became on officer
in the Forfarshire Battery, R.F.A.,
with which he left for the front in

Private William M. Foulis,
Royal Engineers, eighteen years of
age, was the second son of Alex-
ander Foulis and of his wife Annie
M'Kimmie, 13$ Lochland Street, Ar-
broath. He was an apprentice joiner
with James Simpson, St Mary Street,
when he joined the 3rd Royal Scots
in January 1916, and had been only
a month in training when he was
transferred to the Royal Engineers.
He proceeded to France in March
193 6, and died of gun-shot wounds
at Warlencourt, on the Sonime, on
the 30th of October 1916.

1915. He, however, was subse-
quently transferred to a regular
battery and was attached to the
Highland Brigade. On the 12th of
October 1916 he was hit by a shell
while observing from a front trench,
and died almost instantaneously.
The Colonel in command of the Bri-
gade said that during the short time
Captain Gibb had been with him he
had done some exceptionally good
work, and that he was very popular
with everybody.

DRIVER A. B. CUMMING, R.F.A.

PTE. MALCOLM, MIDDLESEX.

Driver Andrew Blair Cumming,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-one
years of age, was the son of Francis
Cumming, tailor's cutter, and of his
wife Mary Stewart, 33 Dishland
Street, Arbroath. He was a watch-
maker with Mr John Anderson. He
enlisted in June 191-5, and had been
in France only two months when he
was wounded, and died on 4th Nov.
1916. His brother, James, was killed
six months earlier, and another
brother served with the R.N.D.

PTE. CHRISTIE, S.A. SCOTTISH.

Private James Christie, South
African Scottish, was a son of George
Christie, builder, and of his wife Ann
Millar, 67 Lochland Street, Arbroath.
Private Christie was thirty years of
age and unmarried. He was a joiner
by trade, and had been about five
years in South Africa before enlist-
ing. He joined the South African
Scottish in November 1915. He was
killed by machine gun fire on the
Somme on the 12th of October 1916.
Private Christie had a brother serv-
ing in France with the A.S.C.

Private William Malcolm,
Middlesex Regiment, 28 Campbell
Road, Finsbury Park, London, was
the son of John Malcolm and of his
wife Margaret Bowman, 23 Hay's
Lane, Arbroath. He was thirty-nine
years of age, and had married, and
left five sons and a daughter. He
served his apprenticeship as a
plasterer with Mr G. A. Campbell,
St Mary Street, and was working at
his trade in London when he joined
the army in July 1915. Private
Malcolm was killed in action on the
10th of November 1916.

PTE. W. MORRIS, CANADIANS.

Private William Morris, Cana-
dian Pioneers, twenty-seven years of
age, was a native of Arbroath. He
served his apprenticeship as, an en-
gineer at Westburn Foundry, and was
a well-known member of Parkhead
Football Club. When war broke out
he was sailing as a marine engineer
between San Francisco and Hong
Kong, and enlisted at Vancouver,
B.C. Private Morris was killed in
action on the 18th of September 1916.

BDR. J. A. MORRISON, R.G.A.

PTE.*HUGH ROBERTSON, B.W.

Bombardier James A. Morrison.
Royal Garrison Artillery, was a son
of Andrew Morrison, boot finisher,
and of his wife Murray Officer Camp-
bell, 31 Taymouth Street, Carnoustie.
He was twenty-seven years of age,
married Mary Ann Ogilvie, and left
two sons and a daughter. Bom-

bardier Morrison was a tenter em-
ployed' at Smieton's weaving factory.
He was a member of the Territorials
and was called up at the commence-
ment of the war. He went to France
in May 1916 and died at the Somme
from shell concussion on the 7th of
November 1916. His section officer
wrote: — "I had in your husband an
extraordinary good and trustworthy
n.c.o. and most splendid companion
at all times. His major also wrote:
— " His loss is very deeply felt by
all of us ; he invariably did his duty
cheerfully and well." Bombardier
Morrison belonged to one of Car-
noustie's most patriotic families.
Three of his brothers served with the
colours and his father was a member
of the local Volunteer Corps. His
brother, Robert, R.F.A., was
awarded the D.C.M.

Private Hugh Robertson, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of William
Robertson, Tealing, and of his wife
Mrs Ruxton, Berryhillock. Car-
myllie. He was thirty-seven years of
age and was unmarried. He left
some years ago for New Zealand,
where he worked for several farmers
in the Stirling district. When war
broke out he immediately volunteered
for active service but was rejected on
account of having lost the sight of
one eye. The call to aid his country
was however insistent with him, and
he returned to Scotland and enlisted
in the Black Watch. He went to
France in August 1916, and was
killed in action on the 13th .of No-
vember of the same year.

PTE. THOMAS M'FARLANE, B.W.

Private Thomas M'Farlane, 2nd
Black Watch, twenty-seven years of
age, was the grandson of Thomas P.
M'Farlane, 11 St Vigeans Road, Ar-
broath. He was employed at Cox's
Mill, Lochee, before he joined the
army in 1908. He was killed in

action on the 1st of January 1916.

PTE. R. A. MANGAN, B.W.

L-CPL. DAVID CARGILL, B.W.

Private Richard A. Mangan,
7th Black Watch, was the son of
Richard Mangan and of his wife
Susan Sheridan, 12 Anderson Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-nine years
of age, and was a grocer with the
High Street Co-operative Society.
He captained the Y.M.C.A. team
that won for the fourth time the Dun-
dee and District Gymnastic Junior
Shield in 1911-12. He joined the
5th Black Watch in March 1916 and
was afterwards transferred to the
7th battalion. He took part in the
British offensive in France in 1916,
and was killed at Beaumont Hamel
on the 13th of November 1916. His
company officer wrote :— " His com-
rades speak very highly of him. and I
am sure he nobly upheld the tradi-
tions of the Black Watch."

PTE. MATHEWSON, M.M. C.I.

Private John Mathewson, Cana-
dian Infantry, son of Mrs Mathew-
son, 19 East Abbey Street, Arbroath,
was awarded the Military Medal, for
conspicuous gallantry on the Somme,
and was killed in October 1917.

Lance-Corporal David Cargill,
5th Black Watch, was the son of
David Cargill and of his wife Eliza-
beth Swankie, 21 South Street, Ar-
broath. He was eighteen years of
age and before joining the army was
employed at Stanley Works. He
enlisted in November 1914, and went
to Prance in July 1916. He was

twice wounded, and was killed on the
14th of November 1916 by a sniper
when on his way to a dressing
station. His brother was killed in
July 1916.

LIEUT. JAMES KERR, H.L.I.

Lieutenant James Kerr, High-
land Light Infantry, twenty-five
years of age, was the son of James
S. Kerr, 3 Wellgate, Dundee, and
grandson of James Kerr, shoemaker,
Keptie Street, Arbroath. He was in
the service of the International
Banking Incorporation, Yokohama,
when he came to London and got a
commission in August 1918. He was
killed in action on the 1st of July
1916. Lieutenant Kerr had two
brothers in the army.

CPL. J. PATTULLO, CANADIANS.

PTE. GEO. BATCHELOR, B.W.

Corporal James Alexander Pat-
txtllo, 50th Battalion Canadians, 739
18th Avenue N.W., Calgary, Alberta,
was the son of James Pattullo, for-
merly grieve at South Mains of Ethie,
Arbroath, and of his wife Agnes
Jamie, Ethie Ranch, Airdrie, Alberta.
He married Mary A. Cathro, an Ar-
broathian , and left two children. Cor-
poral Pattullo was twenty-eight years
of age, and was a teamster with the
Johnston Cartage Company in Cal-
gary when he joined the 50th Cana-
dians in June 1915. After four
months' training in Sareee Camp. Cal-
gary, he left with his battalion for
England and was stationed at Bram-
shott Camp till he went to France in
August 1916. At the battle of the
Somme, on the 16th of November
1916, during a terrible bombardment
which played havoc with the bat-
talion, a "whizz bang" shell ex-
ploded in the trench and killed him
instantaneously. Corporal Pattullo
was a great favourite with the men
of his platoon. Their remark when he
fell was : — "We^have lost a good cor-
poral." His officers also spoke well of
the good work he had done in France.

Private George Batchelor, 6th
Black Watch, twenty-six years of
age, was the adopted son of William
Smith, Eastgate, Friockheim. He
was a gardener at Kincaldrum
House, Forfar, before he joined the
army in March 1916. He went to
France in July, was severely wounded
in action, and died of his wounds at
Etaples in November. Rev. John
Smith, Friockheim, said of him: —
" His military career has been com-
paratively short, but he took to him-
self the soldier spirit, and was bent
on duty. Cheerful, generous-hearted,
and industrious he had the esteem of
his employers and the regard of his
associates in civil life, and we doubt
not he was a good comrade-in-arms."

PTE. A. MITCHELL, CANADIANS.

Private Alexander Mitchell,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, was
the youngest son of Charles D. Mit-
chell, Detroit, who was formerly a
master slater in Arbroath. Private
Mitchell was thirty-four years of age.
He was killed in action in France on
the 16th of September 1916.

PTE. JAMES TOSH, H.L.I.

PTE. A. M'KNIGHT, K.O.S.B.

Peivate James Tosh, 17th High-
land Light Infantry, was the son of
James W. Tosh, Millfield Feus, near
Arbroath. He was nineteen years of
age and before joining the army was
a farm worker in the service of Mr
James Fairlie, West Balmirmer. He
enlisted in the Highland Cyclist Bat-
talion in December 1914, and was
later transferred to the 17th H.L.I.
He proceeded to France in June 1916
and was killed in action on the 18tb
of November 1916. His commanding
officer wrote: — "I knew him very
well as he worked in our mess. He
was one of the most popular men in
the company and I know that he will
be missed very much. When he was
killed he was right in front of the
attack, as cool as anything."

CPL. W. CEABB, AUSTRALIANS.

Coepoeal William Ceabb, Austra-
lian Imperial Force, twenty-seven
years of age, was the son of William
Crabb, Nether Dysart, Montrose, and
grandson of William Crabb, Auch-
mithie. He died from wounds on the
13th of October 1916.

Peivate Alexandee M'Knight,
1st Battalion King's Own Scottish
Borderers, was the son of John
M'Knight, and of his wife Agnes
Spalding, 26 Ladyloan, Arbroath.
He was twenty-eight years of age,
and before the war was employed as
a tailor in Glasgow. Private

M'Knight joined the 1st King's Own
Scottish Borderers in February 1916
and was killed in action in France on
the 19th of November 1916. Second-
Lieutenant J. C. Cameron, in a letter
intimating Private M'Knight' s death
wrote: — "He fell on November 16
while bravely doing his duty. He
was a splendid fellow, a type of sol-
dier we can ill afford to lose."

CPL. J. BROWN, CAMERONS.

Coepoeal James Beown, Cameron
Highlanders, twenty-eight years of
age, was the son of James Brown, 43
Helen Street, Arbroath. He had

served for ten years in the army,
and was killed in action on the 4 th
of October 1916. His brother,
George, had also been in the army
and had lost his sight in France.

DRIVER J. COSGROVE, R.F.A.

GUNNER E. M. SMITH, R.F.A,

Driver John Cosgrove. Royal
Field Artillery, was the son of Mrs
Cosgrove, 12 Park Lane, Dundee, and
formerly residing at 47 Culloden
Road, Arbroath. He was eighteen
and a half years of age, and before
he joined the army was an apprentice
pavior in the service of the Town
Council. He enlisted in the Forfar-
shire Battery of the Royal Field Ar-
tillery in September 1914 and served
with the 51st Divisional Ammunition
Column all through the battle of the
Somme. He was killed in action on
the 17th of December 1916, near
Albert. While sleeping in his dug-
out a shell made a direct hit and his
death was instantaneous. His officer
wrote : — ' ' He came to France with
me and I found him ever a good and
reliable soldier. Naturally quiet, he
went about his work without fuss or
trouble, and, withal, he was a keen
soldier who had long desired to see
battery work. He died as he lived,
doing his duty, without parade or
ostentation, and I am by much the
poorer by his untimely end. He

lies at rest" in a little village behind
the line."

Gunner Edward M'Intyre Smith.
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
Captain Edward Smith, and of his
wife Louisa Pinckney, and nephew of
the Misses Smith, 126 High Street,
Arbroath, where he resided. He was
twenty-seven years of age, and was
in the office of Messrs Andrew Low-
son. Ltd. He joined the Forfarshire
Battery of the R.F.A. in October
1915, and was killed in action on the
17th of December 1916. He was
buried in Aveling Cemetery, near
Albert. His commanding officer
wrote: — "His presence in the bat-
tery will be greatly missed. He was
very popular, and, being always
anxious and keen to do his duty, he
made a splendid type of a soldier."

SGT.-MAJOR J. CRAWFORD, B.W.

Sergeant-Major John Crawford,
Black Watch, Arbroath, was the son
of John Crawford, gardener, Dal-
gairn, Cupar. He was an assistant
with Mr Alex. Hird, draper, Keptie
Street, and had been a member of
the local Territorial Force. He died
of wounds in November 1916.

GUNNER J. A. EMSLIE, R.F.A.

L-CPL. J. HANTON, A. & S.H.

Gunner John Adamson Emslie,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
Robert Emslie and of his wife Susan
Adamson, 3 West Mary Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age,
and before the war was an apprentice
plumber with Mr T. R. Grant,
Brothock Bridge. He enlisted in the
Forfarshire Battery of the Royal Field
Artillery in August 1915, and after
four months' training went to France.
On 17th December 1916 he was seri-
ously wounded, and in the hope of
saving his life his leg was amputated
but it was of no avail and he died on
the 20th of December 1916 at No. 9
Casualty Clearing Station. Gunner
Emslie was buried in Contay Military
Cemetery, France.

PTE. JAMES TODD, GORDONS.

Private James Todd, Gordon High-
landers, twenty-five years of age, was
the son of James Todd. Kinnell,
near Arbroath. Before enlisting in
1915 he was a member of the Leith
Police Force. He served in France,
was severely wounded, and died on
the 16th of October 1916.

Lance-Corporal Joseph Hanton,
14th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, Hayshead House, Arbroath,
was the son of William Hanton, and
of his wife Margaret- Kydd, St
Vigeans. He was twenty-five years
of age and unmarried. He was a
clerk in the head office of the Bank
of Scotland in Edinburgh, having ser-
ved his apprenticeship in the office of
the Arbroath branch. He joined the
army in June 1915 as a private in the
14th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, and went to France in 1916.
After serving there for six months,
Lance-Corporal Hanton was killed
on the 29th of December 1916 at
Bouchavesnes, near Combles.

PRIVATE. ALEX. MEEK, H.L.I.

Private Alexander Meek, 15th
Highland Light Infantry, Ernest
Street, Arbroath, was twenty-eight
years of age. He was married and
left two children. Private Meek was
a painter by trade and had been only
a few weeks at the front when he
was killed in action on the 18th of
November 1916.

L-CPL. W. RENNIE, A. & S.H.

GUNNER DAVID WEIR, R.F.A.

Lance-Corporal William Rennie,
14th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, was the son of William
J . Rennie and of his wife Jane Fen-
ton, 15 Hay swell Road, Arbroath. He
was nineteen years of age, and was
an apprentice with Messrs Boots,
chemists, when he joined the army
in October 1915 as a private. He
went to France the following year,
and only a few days after his promo-
tion to lance-corporal he was killed in
action near Bouehavesnes on the 29th
of December 1916. His colonel wrote :
— "Your son was ever a brave soldier
and a good comrade," and his platoon
officer wrote : — " Lance-Corporal
William Rennie was a fine soldier.
He did his duty, being faithful unto
death."

PTE. HUGHES, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Hughes, Black
Watch, son of Mrs Hughes, Dishland
Street, Arbroath, was thirty years of
age, and had joined the Territorials
a few months before the war. He
was wounded at La Bassee, and killed
at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

Gunner David Ferrier Weir,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
Charles Weir, 43 Panmure Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age.
and when war broke out he was serv-
ing his apprenticeship as an iron-
moulder with the Messrs James Keith
& Blackmail Co., Ltd. He was a
member of the Forfarshire Battery,
but on account of his age he was not
sent to the front till August 1916.
Three months afterwards Gunner
Weir was transferred to a Welsh
battery. He was killed in action on
the 2nd of January 1917 — the second
of his family to fall at the front.

BDR. J. FARQUHARSON, R.F.A.

Bombardier John Farquharson,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
Colin Farquharson, 40 Green Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-three
years of age, and was married. Be-
fore the war he was employed as a
moulder at Westburn Foundry. In
May 1915 Bombardier Farquharson
went with his battery to the front,
and was killed in action in December
1916.

PTE. A. CRAIG, BLACK WATCH.

SEAMAN WM. J. IRVINE, R.N.

Private Alexander Craig, 7th
Black Watch, 29 Fisheracre, Ar-
broath, was the eldest son of John
Craig, formerly of Ordie, Oathlaw,
and of Mrs Craig, 15 Culloden Road.
He married Margaret Marshall
Wood, and left three sons and two
daughters. He was thirty-three
years of age, and before joining the
army was employed as a ploughman
at Little Cairnie Farm, Arbroath. He
joined the army in August 1916, and
after a few months' training at Nigg
he was sent over to France. Private
Craig was killed in action on the
Somme on the 5th of January 1917,
the first day he was in the trenches,
and he was buried in the British
Military Cemetery at St Ollivers.
His brother was killed in 1916.

PTE. C. FRASER, S. AFRICANS.

Private Charles T. Fraser, nine-
teen years of age, only son of James
W. Fraser, M.D.. Stutterheim, Cape
Colony, and grandson of Gilbert
Fraser, " commercial teacher, Ar-
broath High School, was killed in
action in East Africa in 1916.

Seaman William James Irvine,
R.N., eighteen years of age, was the
son of William Irvine, the School
House, Guthrie. He was a pupil of
the Arbroath High School, and had
gained a bursary of £50 for four years
at St Andrews University. He joined
the navy in September 1916 and was
sent to Devonport for a course of
training in submarine hunting. He
took pneumonia and died in the Royal
Naval Hospital, Plymouth, on the
6th of January 1917. He was buried
in the churchyard at Guthrie.

PTE. M'KINNON, BLACK WATCH

Private James M'Kinnon, 5th
Black Watch, 279 High Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Peter
M'Kinnon, Aberdeen. He was

twenty-seven years of age, and had
married Agnes Ross, and left a son
and a daughter. Private' M'Kinnon
was a carter with the Caledonian
Railway Company when he joined the
army in September 1914. On the 1st
of September 1916 he was killed in
action and was buried at Knights-
bridge Cemetery, Mesnil, near Albert.

PTE. J. SOUTAR, BLACK WATCH,

PTE. A. TODD, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Soutar, 9th Black
"Watch, twenty-one years of age, was
the son of George Soutar, Westhills,
Carnvyllie. Before joining the army,
in June 1915. he had been a plough-
man at Labothie, Inverarity. "When
in France he was in charge of a Lewis
gun team, and was on the point of
being made a lance-corporal when he
was killed on the 24th of January
1917. He was leading his gun team
at the head of the platoon when he
was wounded, and had to be carried
to No. 45 Casualty Clearing Station,
where he died four days later. His
officer said he was one of the best
men he had, and the chaplain wrote :
— "He was a true and brave soldier,
one of the best and bravest in the
battalion, and we are all glad and
proud to have known him."

PTE. CAR GILL, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Cargild, 5th Black
Watch, twenty-two years of age, son
of David Cargill, 44 Auchmithie, was
a farm servant at Kinaldie. He

was killed in action in France on the
23rd of April 1917.

Private Andrew Todd, 1st Black
Watch, son of Mrs Andrew Todd, 14
Millgate Loan, Arbroath, was twenty-
three years of age and was a plough-
man at Arrot. Brechin. He joined the
colours in February 1915, and was
killed at Albert on the 23rd of Janu-
ary 1917. A sergeant, writing, said :
— " We have lost a good comrade,
one who was always willing, obliging
and cheerful, and our country
mourns another good soldier."

SGT. J. WHITTON, M.M., B.W.

Sergeant John Whitton, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of David
Whitton, Friockheim. Being one of
the local corps of the Black Watch
(Territorials) he left for France in
November 1914. He was wounded
early in the war, and again wounded
in October 1916, and for his meri-
torious conduct then he was awarded
the Military Medal. Shortly after-
wards he was killed in action. "Ser-
geant Whitton was a quiet, unassum-
ing lad, ever earnest in duty, upright
in word and deed," were the terms
in which his Captain spoke of him.

DR. RAMSAY, CANADIAN A.S.C.

SAPPER F. ROBERTSON, R.E.

Driver James Ramsay, Canadian
Army Service Corps, thirty-one years
of age, was the second son of James
Ramsay, 24 St Vigeans Road, Ar-
broath. He was unmarried and had
been a baggage porter in Montreal
previous to the outbreak of war. In
December 1914 he joined the Cana-
dian Army Service Corps as a driver
of the 2nd Divisional Train. He ser-
ved in France until the 28th of Janu-
ary 1917, when he died suddenly and
was buried in a little cemetery at
Huillecourt. France. He was a
great favourite in his unit.

PTE. D. BROWN. CANADIANS.

Private David Brown, Canadian
Cameron Highlanders, thirty-eight
years of age, was the son of George
Brown, 20 Brechin Road, Arbroath.
He was a tailor's cutter and after be-
ing several years in Soutli Africa he
went to Canada where he was in busi-
ness for himself. Private Brown
joined the Cameron Highlanders in
Canada and had been only five
weeks at the front when he was
killed in action in 1917.

Sappeh Frank Robertson, 3rd
Field Company, Royal Engineers
(T.F.), twenty-eight years of age, was
the son of Alexander and Margaret
Robertson, Kinloch Cottage, Golf
Street, Carnoustie. He was em-
ployed as a mason with Messrs A.
Robertson & Sons when he joined the
army in November 1915. After en-
listing he was for some time engaged
in bridge-building at Balmuir ; and
then finished his training at Norfolk.
He was only four weeks in France
when he contracted a chill, which
proved fatal. He died of pneumonia
on the 12th of February 1917 and was
buried in the cemetery at Etaples.

SGT. ANDW. SIMPSON. K.O.S.B.

Sergeant Andrew Simpson,
King's Own Scottish Borderers,
Kinloch Street, Carnoustie, joined
the army in 1914. He was one of
Carnoustie's strongest golfers. He
had been in the South African Police
and fought in Mashonaland and dur-
ing the South African war. Sergeant
Simpson was killed at the battle of
Loos on the 25th of September 1916.

A.B. ALEX. JAMIESON, R.N.D. ENG. SUB-LT. SMITH, R.N.R.

Able Seaman Alexander Pert
Jamieson, Royal Naval Division, was
the son of W. Jamieson, 26 Leonard
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
five years of age and was unmarried.
He was employed at Messrs David
Oorsar & Sons' Nursery Mills, and
was at one time secretary of the
Woodside Club, and secretary and
treasurer of the Arbroath and Dis-
trict Juvenile Association. He
joined the Royal Naval Division in
November 1915. Seaman Jamieson
was wounded in action, and died in
France on the 18th of February 1917.
His elder brother. Private David
Jamieson, was killed in action at the
battle of Loos on the 25th of Sep-
tember 1915.

GUNR, BRAND, AUSTRALIANS.

Gunner Robert Brand, Austra-
lian Imperial Forces, was the son of
Private James Brand. Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, and grandson
of Robert 0. Brand, Fergus Square,
Arbroath. He had been on active ser-
vice, and died in the hospital at Ted-
worth on the 24th of February 1917.

Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Smith,
Royal Naval Reserve, was the son of
Edward Smith and of his wife Isobel
Crockatt, 48j Cairnie Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-eight years
of age, and he served his apprentice-
ship at the Dens Iron Works. He
was afterwards with Messrs Cuth-
bertson & Company, Glasgow, and
he joined the R.N.R. as engine-
room artificer on H.M.S. Marl-
borough. He took part in the Jut-
land battle and was afterwards pro-
moted to the rank of Chief Engine-
Room Artificer. Engineer Sub-Lieu-
tenant Smith received bis com-
mission on the 1st of January
1917, and was transferred to
H.M.S. Bacchante off which he was
accidentally drowned on the 21st of
February 1917.

PTE. GALWAY, AUSTRALIANS.

Private William Ernest Galway,
Australian Imperial Forces, was the
grandson of William Ruxton, 50
Howard Street, Arbroath. Private
Galway was killed in action at
Bapaume, France, in March 1917.

PTE. JAS. ADAM, CANADIANS. PTE. HEBENTON, CANADIANS.

Private James Adam, Canadian
Boyal Highlanders, was the youngest
son of Mrs Adam, 38 Helen Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-nine years
of age and was unmarried. He had
served his apprenticeship as a baker
in Arbroath, but afterwards went to
Canada, and was in the Ottawa Gas
Company when he joined the army
in 1915. He was a keen footballer,
both at home and abroad, and won a
silver cup in one of the championship
matches at Ottawa. He came over
with a Canadian Contingent in April
1916, and was stationed in England
for three months, after which he went
to France, and was killed in action
there on the 1st of March 1917.

PTE. MUNBO, SCOTTISH RIFLES.

Private James Munro, Scottish
Rifles, 35 East Abbey Street, Ar-
broath, was a son of James Munro,
45 Leonard Street. He had married
Annie Macfarlane and left one child.
Before enlistment he was employed at
the Dens Iron Works, and had been
six months at the front when he was
killed on the 24th of March 1917.

Private William Gibb Hebenton,
72nd Canadian Seaforths, 109 Ninth
Street, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Canada, was the fourth son of David
Hebenton and of his wife Annie Low,
27 East Abbey Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty-six years of age, and
was formerly employed as a freight
clerk on the Canadian Northern Pail-
way. He joined the 72nd Canadian
Seaforths in September 1915, and
came over to France. Private

Hebenton was one of the victims of a
severe gas attack at Vimy Ridge.
He died in the 22nd Casualty Clear-
ing Station on the 2nd of March 1917
as the result of poison fumes.

PTE. BOWMAN, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Bowman, Black
Watch, thirty-one years of age, was
the son of Robert Bowman, Fifth-
muir, Arbroath. He was married
and left two of a family. Before en-
listing in 1916 he was employed in
Arbroath as a lorryman with Mr
James Jack, aerated water manufac-
turer. Private Bowman died in hos-
pital at Cromarty in April 1917.

GUNNER DAVID MILL, R.G.A.

CPL. CHARLES H. HARPER, R.E.

Gunner David Mill. 100th Siege
Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery,
was the son of James Grieve Mill,
and of his wife Mary Laburn, 131
Paumure Terrace, Carnoustie. He
was twenty years of age, and before
the war he was employed as a
machineman at the Taymouth En-
gineering Works. Carnoustie. Gunner
Mill joined the Royal Garrison Ar-
tillery (Territorials) in 1912, and was
mobilised on the 4th of August 1914.
and attached to the North Scottish
R.G.A. He was stationed for a time
at Brought? Ferry, and served for a
year in France, where he was killed
during a heavy bombardment at
Berles an Bois on the 6th of March
1917 by a shell entering the cellar
where he was sheltering. His major
wrote: — "He was one of the most
hard-working and quiet men in the
battery. He was first under me at
Broughty Ferry, where he helped
well both on the guns and in the
mess, and in France he helped in
many ways, latterly looking after the
men's messing. His work at the
front was excellent, and he always
did his best."

4J4fc

Corporal Charles Henry Har-
per. Royal Engineers, was the son of
J. Wallace Harper, 4 Guthrie Port,
Arbroath. He was forty years of
age and was unmarried. He served
his apprenticeship with the Tele-
phone Company in Dundee, going
later to Manchester and afterwards
to Madras, where for seven years he
held an appointment with the
Oriental Electric Company. He was
in the Government telephone service
in Glasgow when he joined the army
in December 1915. He died of
wounds at Rouen on the 3rd of
March 1917. Two of his brothers came
from Vancouver with the Canadians
and served in France.

PTE. MDLNE, HOME DEFENCE.

Private Charles Milne, Home
Defence Corps, fifty years of age,
was the youngest son of James Milne,
29 St Mary Street, Arbroath. He
married Ann Carrie, and lived at 56
Paumure Street, Carnoustie. Private
Milne died of apoplexy in No. 4
Military Hospital, Glasgow, on the
16th of February 1917.

LT. ROBERT C. MILNE, R.N.R.

PTE. PATTULLO, BLACK WATCH.

Lieutenant Robert Conway
Milne, Royal Naval Reserve, was
the son of Robert Conway Milne,
Port Missionary, Sailors' Home Mis-
sion and Institute. Barrow-in-Fur-
ness, and nephew of Miss Airth,
Bible- reader, Arbroath. He served
his apprenticeship in the Hindustan
Shipping Company, of Sunderland,
and when war was declared was a
chief officer in the Clan Line Shipping
Company. He joined the navy as
lieutenant in the Royal Naval Re-
serve. While on H.M.S. Magnificent
he did much secret service work, and
went through a special course of
gunnery instruction. He was appoin-
ted as Gunnery-Lieutenant on H.M.S.
Q27, a mystery ship operating in the
route of Atlantic shipping. Q27's
first trip was productive of much
harm to the enemy, but her second
was disastrous to herself and thirteen
men. Lieutenant Milne was the only
officer lost. He was fatally wounded
on getting out the port lifeboat, the
ship suddenly listing on being struck
by a torpedo. She went down in four
minutes on the 13th of March 1917.
Lieut. Milne was buried at sea.

Private Allan Pattullo, 3rd
Black Watch, was the youngest son
of Allan Pattullo and of his wife Ann
Edwards, 69 Helen Street, Arbroath.
He was nineteen years of age and was
a batcher at Alma Works when he
was called up in October 1916. Pri-
vate Pattullo joined the 3rd Black
Watch, and had been in training at
Nigg when he became ill and died in
the hospital at Nigg on the 12th of
March 1917. His brother. Private
David Pattullo, Royal Engineers,
was killed in action in 1916.

PTE. ROBERTSON, CANADIANS

Private Arthur Robertson, 148th
Canadians, twenty-three years of age,
was the son of Duncan Robertson,
2413 Cartier Street, Montreal, for-
merly of Arbroath. Private Robert-
son was killed in action at the battle
of Vimy Ridge. He had three

brothers, all natives of Arbroath,
with the colours. William was in tbe
Naval Division at the Dardanelles,
Alexander in the Vancouver Regi-
ment, and James in the Canadian
Army Medical Corps.

SGT. ALEX. KIDD, CANADIANS.

PTE. E. SPINK, LIVERPOOLS.

Sergeant Alexander Kidd, 87th
Canadian Grenadier Guards, 815
Alma Street, Montreal, was a son of
William Kidd, Station Cottages,
Leysmill. He was thirty-seven years
of age and had married Lizzie Crow,
and left five children. He served in
the Boer War with distinction, win-
ning hoth the King's and Queen's
medals. He returned to Scotland and
joined the Police Force. Five years
afterwards he went to Canada and
was in the C.P.R. Police. In Novem-
ber 1915 he enlisted as a private, and
was wounded by shrapnel at the
battle of the Somme. On his recovery
he was sent to the Canadian Base
Depot at Le Havre, until, after an
accident, serious illness developed.
He was sent to No. 7 Stationary Hos-
pital, Harfleur, where he died on the
28th of March 1917. He was buried
in the cemetery at St Marie, Havre.
Sergeant Kidd had five brothers in
the army. Lieutenant William Kidd
fought in South Africa ; Edward and
Stewart were both with the Scottish
Horse ; Francis was on the head-
quarter staff in England, and Charles
was with a Scottish regiment.

Private Edward Spink, King's
Liverpools, 13 Bank Street, Arbroath,
was the son of Edward Spink, man-
ager and secretary of the Arbroath
Friendly Coal Society, Ltd. Private
Spink, who was twenty years of age,
was clerk in the office of the Society
previous to his enlistment in August
1915, when he joined the Highland
Cyclist Battalion. He was after-
wards transferred to the King's
Liverpools and he served at the front
in France for four months before he
was killed in action on the 13th of
March 1917. Private Spink's

younger brother, Herbert, was also
in the army, having been in the
Mechanical Transport Section.

PTE. J. FYFE, BLACK WATCH.

Private John Fyfe, Black Watch,
was the son of John Fyfe, at one
time of Kinnell's Mill, Friockheim.
Although under age he went over to
France with the rest of the Friock-
heim boys of the Black Watch in
November 1914. He was only twenty-
years of age when he was killed in
action on the 31st of July 1917.

PTE. ALEXANDER, CAMERONS.

PTE. C. WARDEN, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private David Alexander, 7th
Cameron Highlanders, was the son
of Mrs Alexander, 45 Lochlands
Drive. Arbroath. He was twenty-
tight years of age and was a grocer
in Cambuslang. He enlisted m
November 1914, and was promoted
corporal. He went to France as a
private, and was killed on the 9th
of April 1917.

PTE. JOHN H. PETERS, R.S.F.
Private John Hunter Peters,
Royal Scots Fusiliers, twenty-one
years of age, was the son of David
Peters, Denhead of Arbirlot. He
was a ploughman at Letham Grange
when he joined the 5th Black Watch
in 1916. He was transferred to the
R.S.F. , and was killed on the 3rd of
May 1917.

PTE. W. W. MATTHEW, N.F.
Private Walter W. Matthew,
24th Northumberland Fusiliers, was
the son of Joseph Matthew, Dalhousie
Place, Arbroath. He was twenty-
three years of age, and was presumed
killed on the 29th of April 1917.

Private Chari.es Andrew War-
den, 12th Royal Scots, was the son
of Charles M. Warden, Easthaven. He
was eighteen years of age and was a
railway porter at Carnoustie station.
He joined the 12th Royal Scots in
August 1915, and went to* France in
December. While in action at Fam-
poux, near Arras, on the 12th of
April 1917, Private Warden remained
in the worst of shell-torn areas under
heavy fire bandaging a wounded
officer until he himself was killed by
a shell. His commanding officer said
he was a most energetic soldier, al-
ways obliging, and always on tlio
spot when he was wanted.

PTE. D. REDD, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private David Reid, Royal Scots,
son of James Reid, bleacher, and
brother of Mrs Galbraith, Elliot
Place, Arbroath, was thirty-three
years of age, and was employed at
Kelly Blea.chfield. He joined the
army in February 1915, and was
killed at the Somme in 1916. A
brother. Charles Reid, was killed in
the previous year.

2nd-LT. D. A. CARNEGIE, R.F.A. L-CPL. D. BUIK, CAMERONS.

Second-Lieutenant David Alex-
ander Carnegie, 122nd Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery, 38th Division,
was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel
the Honourable Douglas Carnegie
and of his wife Margaret Jean John-
stone Douglas, Fair Oak, Rogate,
Sussex, and grandson of the ninth
Earl of Northesk. He was twenty
years of age and instead of going to
Cambridge, as was intended, he went
to Woolwich, received a commission
in May 1916, and was immediately
sent out to France, where he took
part in the engagements at Mametz
and Contalmaison. He was killed in
action by the explosion of an enemy
shell in his battery at Brielen, near
Ypres, on the 2nd of April 1917, and
was buried in the military cemetery
at Elverdinghe, in Flanders. The
Colonel commanding his brigade
wrote : — ' ' He was a splendidly gal-
lant fellow who has done magnificent
work always. He could always be
absolutely depended upon, and his
powers of observation and intuition
were exceptional. His reports were
always valuable. Both officers and
men were most awfully fond of him."

Lance-Corporal David Buik,
Cameron Highlanders, thirty-one
years of age, was the son of Mrs
Buik-Duncan, Ferndene, Kinlocb
Street, Carnoustie. He had been
employed as a soft leather cutter at
the Dalhousie Leather Works, and
prior to enlistment was engaged with
a firm of Glasgow contractors. He
joined the Cameron Highlanders as
a private in November 1915, went to
France in May 1916, and was pro-
moted lance-corporal. He was
wounded in the head and died on the
14th of April 1917 at No. 11 General
Hospital, Dannes Camiers. He was
buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.
A brother served with the Gordons.

PTE. VALENTINE, CANADIANS.

Private Henry Guild Valentine,

15 th Canadians, youngest son of
Richard Valentine, Tarry Mill, Ar-
broath, was thirty-four years of age
and unmarried. He had been in
Canada for ten years, and joined the
Canadian Expeditionary Force in
1915. He was serving in France and
died there on the 9th of April 1917.

SGT. FAIRWEATHER, M.M., R.S.

PTE. NICOLL, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant John Brown Fair-
weather, 1st Royal Scots, twenty-
eight years of age, was the son of
John Fairweather, 37 Lordburn, Ar-
broath. He joined the army in 1906,
and served for seven years in India.
From there he was drafted to France
and landed on Christmas day 1914.
He was promoted sergeant in the
field, and was decorated with the
Military Medal for bravery in a
bombing raid near Arras the day be-
fore he was wounded for the third
and last time. He died in a base hos-
pital as the result of gun-shot
wounds in the head on the 14th of
April 1917, and was buried in the
soldiers' cemetery at Aubigny,
Artois. Sergeant Fairweather had
three brothers in the army — James
was killed the same month ; Edward
gained the Military Medal.

PTE. T. MARTIN, SCOTS GUARDS.

Private Tom Martin, 2nd Scots
Guards, twenty-four years of age,
was a clerk with the N.B. Railway
Co. at Arbroath. He was killed in
action on the 27th of September 1915.

Private Andrew Nicoll, 5th Black
Watch, was the youngest son of Mrs
William Nicoll, 248 High Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age.
Before enlisting he was employed at
Waulkmills Bleachfield. He joined
the army in March 1915 as a private
in the 5th Black Watch, and after
several months' training at Forfar
and Ripon he was sent over to
France in 1916. He was ill, and re-
turned to England for a time, and
after rejoining his unit he was trans-
ferred to the Machine Gun Corps at
Grantham. In October Private Nicoll
left for Mesopotamia, where he died
of wounds on the 16th of April 1917.

PTE. R. BELL, SEAFORTHS.

Private Richard Bell, Seaforth
Highlanders, Rose Street, Car-
noustie, was, at the time of enlist-
ing, employed in the vitriol works of
Messrs Tennant, Carnoustie. He
was married and left three children.
As a golfer he was one of the Car-
noustie Club's leading men, being a
scratch player. Private Bell died of
wounds in April 1917.

SGT. A. CATHRO, CANADIANS.

GUNR. ALEX. MITCHELL, R.F.A.

Sergeant Alexander . Cathro,
50th Battalion Canadians, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, twenty-five years
of age, was the son of Private James
Cathro, C.A.S.C, and of his wife Isa-
bella Mathewson, Calgary. Sergeant
Cathro and his wife, Jeannie Lind-
say Gibson, were both natives of
Arbroath. Sergeant Cathro was a
ploughman in the Arbroath district
before going to Calgary in 1911, and
lie was employed there as a teamster
with the Ashdown Hardware Co. He
joined the army as a private in the
50th Canadian Battalion in February
1915, and was in training at Garcee
Camp until October, when he was
sent overseas and stationed at Bram-
shott. He went to France in August
1916 and was wounded in the face at
the battle of the Somme. After three
weeks in hospital he returned to the
trenches on the very day his brother-
in-law, Corporal James Pattullo, was
killed. He himself lost his life at
the capture of Vimy Ridge on the
10th of April 1917. Officers' letters
spoke highly of his character, of his
devotion to duty, and of the good
work he did in France.

Gunner Alexander Murray
Officer Mitchell. R.F.A., son of
Alexander M. O. Mitchell, Drummy-
gar, Carmyllie, was thirty-one years
of age and unmarried. He had been
a ploughman in the Carmyllie dis-
trict and prior to enlisting in Novem-
ber 1915 was a driver on the Dundee
and Monifieth Tramway Cars. While
performing his duty at the guns in
France he was hit on the head by a
piece of shell and instantaneously
killed on the 18th of April 1917. His
section officer, writing of him, says :
"I at all times found him one of my
most willing and capable gunners."

GUNR. PERCY NICOLL, R.F.A.

Gunner Percy Nicoll, Royal Field
Artillery, was the son of J. M. Nicoll,
Invertay, and brother of Mrs Reid,
Catherine Cottage, Carnoustie. He
had served his apprenticeship as a
fitter with Messrs G. Anderson & Co.,
Ltd., was employed for a time as
mechanic with Messrs J. Smieton &
Sons, and later received an appoint-
ment in London. Private Nicoll was
killed on the 13th of April 1917.

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PTE. J. FETTES, SEAFORTHS.

PTE. ALEX. ROBERTSON, R.S.F.

Private John Fettes, Seaforth
Highlanders, 28 Ponderlaw Street,
Arbroath, who was thirty years of
age. was the son of James Fettes,
plumber, 9 Union Street, Brechin.
He married Margaret Cant, and left
one son. He was an ironmoulder
with the Messrs James Keith &
Blackmail Company, Ltd., when he
enlisted in August 1914 in the Sea-
forth Highlanders. Private Fettes
served for a. year in England, and
then went to France, where he had
been for ten months at the front
when he was wounded. After his
recovery he was sent to Mesopo-
tamia, and was killed in the fighting
on the Persian Gulf on the 21st of
April 1917.

TPE. ANDERSON, LIFE GUARDS

Trooper Alexander Anderson,
Life Guards, was the son of George
G. Anderson, 25 West Abbey Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty years of
age, and before enlisting in 1916 he
was a clerk in the Dundee office of
Messrs Wordie & Co. He was killed
in action on the 12th of April 1917.

Private Alexander Robertson,
Royal Scots Fusiliers, was the son of
James Robertson and of his wife
Jean Reid, 71 Loch land Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-three years
of age and had married Janet Web-
ster and left one son. Before join-
ing the army in April 1916 Private
Robertson was in business in North
Port as a hairdresser. After a
year's service he died of wounds in
a Casualty Clearing Station in
France on the 21st of April 1917.
Private Robertson had two brothers
serving in the R.F.A.

PTE. ARTHUR TAYLOR, N.F.

Private Arthur Taylor, Nor-
thumberland Fusiliers, second son of
Alexander Taylor, painter, 50 How-
ard Street, Arbroath, was twenty-
eight years of age and unmarried.
He had served his apprenticeship as
a moulder at the Dens Iron Works,
and was working at his trade in
Yoker when he enlisted in the Royal
Engineers. He was afterwards

transferred and was killed in action
on the 9th of April 1917.

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PTE. M. BROWN, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. JOSEPH KEITH, H.L.I.

Private Melville Brown, 7th
Black Watch, was the son of Stephen
Brown and of his wife Mary Ann
Milne. 5 Kinnaird Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty- three years of age and
unmarried and had been employed as
a batcher at the Wellgate Works. He
joined the Black Watch in November
1915, and was killed in action in
France on the 23rd of April 1917.

LT. CRAWFORD, LONDON RGT.

Second-Lieutenant William Scott
Crawford, younger son of Mrs
Crawford, Heme Hill, London, was
twenty-nine years of age. He had
been in the Arbroath Office of the
"Dundee Advertiser." Having been
in Messrs Shanks' engineering shop
at the Dens Iron Works, Lieutenant
Crawford worked for a time on a Lon-
don engineering paper and later was
in the London office of the Thomson
publications. In January 1914 he
joined the financial staff of " The
Times," from which the following is
quoted: — "He developed fast, show-
ing gifts of leadership and quick de-
cision. When the time came to join

Private Joseph Keith, 15th High-
land Light Infantry, Marywell, was
the son of William Keith, Stone-
haven. He was thirty-eight years ot
age, and had married Jane Ann
Stewart and left two sons and four
daughters. Before joining the army
in June 1916 he was a ploughman at
Castleton, Marywell. He served in
France, where he was wounded in
action, and died in No. 10 General
Hospital, Rouen, on the 9th of April
1917.

the army he threw himself heart and
soul into his new profession and the
gifts he had shown in Printing-House
Square soon brought him the honour
of nomination to a commission. His
letters from France showed that no-
thing impressed him more than the
courage and cheerfulness of his men,
of whose welfare he was for ever
thinking." Lieut. Crawford wrote
occasional verses for the ' Guide,"
and two of his pieces were brought
under the notice of a well-known
composer. He was killed in action
in April 1917.

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L-CPL. CHAS. STEWART, B.W.

PTE M DONALD, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal Charles Stewart,
7th Black Watch, thirty years cf
age, was the eldest son of David F.
Stewart and of his wife Jessie Her-
ron, 42 Sidney Street, Arbroath. He
had been in America for several years
but was employed as a machineman at
Dens Iron Works, Arbroath, when he
joined the army in February 1916 as
a private in the oth Black Watch.
After some months' training he went
to France in July, and was trans-
ferred to the 7th Battalion. Lance-
Corpora.l Stewart was killed in action
at the battle of Arras on the 23rd of
April 1917. He was buried in a
British cemetery near where he fell,
north of Roeux and east of Fampoux.

PTE. J. WHYTE, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Whyte, Black
Watch, was the son of Alexander
Whyte, 64 Cairnie Street, Arbroath.
Before joining the army he was
employed at the High Street
Foundry. Private Whyte, who had
three brothers serving with the
colours, .was killed in action on the
23rd of April 1917.

Private John M'Donald, 7th
Black Watch, was the son of Donald
M'Donald and of his wife Mary Ann
Croall, East Kirkton, St Vigeans,
Arbroath. He was twenty years of
age and was employed as a tenter at
the Alma Works. In August 1916
he joined the 5th Black Watch, but
when he went to France in Decem-
ber he was transferred to the 7th.
Private M'Donald was killed in
action on the 23rd of April 1917,
and was buried in a British Ceme-
tery at Brown's Copse, four and a
half miles east of Ai'ras.

PTE. DONALDSON, CANADIANS.

Private Robert E. Donaldson,
52nd Canadians, was a native of
Friockheim. He went to Canada
some years ago. When war broke
out he enlisted and came over to
France. He was killed in 1917 while
on guard in a captured German
trench. The Canadian chaplain
spoke of him as " a brave, worthy,
man, a faithful soldier and a bright,
gentle companion who willingly gave
of his best for a righteous cause."

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PTE. J. FAIRWEATHER, B.W.

PTE. J. SHEPHERD, GORDONS.

Private James Fairweather, 7th
Black Watch. 98 Keptie Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of John Fair-
weather and of his wife Mary
M'Millan Dalrymple, 37 Lordburn.
He was twenty-five years of age. had
married Jane B. Cargill and left one
daughter. He was a cabinetmaker
with Messrs D. T. Wilson & Sons
when he joined the army in March
1916. After three months' training
at Nigg, Private Fairweather went
to France, where he served for ten
months as a Lewis gunner. He was
killed on the 23rd of April 1917 in
the fighting round Arras, and was
buried at Brown's Copse British
Cemetery, near Arras. Three of Pri-
vate Fairweather' s brothers served
with the colours, and his brother
John was killed the same month.

Private James Shepherd, Gordon
Highlanders, 36 Fergus Square, Ar-
broath, was the son of John Shep-
herd and of his wife Mary Lyell. He
was thirty-five years of age and had
married Mary Donald, and left two
sons and two daughters. He had
been an iron-moulder in Carnoustie,
and enlisted in October 1914 in the
Black Watch, but later was trans-
ferred to the Gordon Highlanders.
For two years he served on Home
Defence, and had been at the front
four months when he was wounded
at the battle of Arras on the 23rd
of April 1917. He died the following
day. and was buried in the com-
munal cemetery at Aubigny, near
Arras. His commanding officer
wrote deeply regretting the death of
such an excellent soldier."

L-CPL. J. JOLLY, CANADIANS.

Lance-Corporal John Jolly,
Canadian Contingent, thirty-two
years of age, was the son of Mrs
Moug, Salmond's Muir, near Ar-
broath. He was killed in action on
the 9th of April 1917.

PTE. MINTOSH, LIVERPOOLS.

Private William M'Intosh,
King's Liverpool Regiment, Blind-
loch, Arbroath, was the son of A.
M'Intosh, Malleny Lodge, Balerno.
He was killed in action on the 9th
of April 1917.

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PTE. JAMIESON, LI VERPOOLS.

PTE. W. FRASER, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private David Fairweatiier
Jamieson, 18th Liverpool Regiment,
was the son of James Jamieson and
of his wife Jane Anderson, 16 West
Keptie Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-one years of age and before
he enlisted he was a waiter at the
Star Hotel, Montrose. In November
1915 he joined the Dundee Highland
Cycle Bridage, but was afterwards
transferred to the 18th Liverpools.
Private Jamieson was killed in action
on the 24th of April 1917, and was
buried at Cherisy Rode East Ceme-
tery, Heninel, five miles south-east
of Arras.

PTE. W. GRAY, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Gray, 7th Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
third son of David Gray, Mains of
Kelly, Arbroath. He was a farm
servant when, shortly after the out-
break of war, he joined the Black
Watch, and went over to France in
January 1915. Private Gray was
wounded at Neuve Chapelle and at
the Somme. He was killed in action
on the 23rd of April 1917.

Private William Fraser. 16th
Royal Scots, 48 Broughton Road,
Edinburgh, was the son of John
Fraser, 21 Guthrie Port, Arbroath.
• He was thirty-four years of age and
had married Catherine M'lver, and
left two sons and two daughters. Be-
fore joining up in January 1917 he
had been head gardener at Middle-
ton Hall, near Edinburgh. After
four months' service he was killed
in France on the 28th of April 1917.

2nd-LT. W. SHAND KYDD. R.F.A.

Seconu-Lieittenant Wm. Shand
Kydd, Royal Field Artillery, twenty-
four years of age, was the son of
Wdliam Shand Kydd, Highgate, Lon-
don, formerly of Arbroath. He was
in his father's business as a wall-
paper manufacturer, and, a great
student and a lover of art, he had the
prospect of a brilliant career. He
joined the O.T.C. and within a week
of receiving his commission left for
France with his brother officer,
Lieut. Scott of Bloomfield, Arbroath.
He was killed in action near Arras
on the 16th of May 1917.

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SGT. F. MITCHELL, CAMERONS. GNR. CHAS. CARNEGIE, R.F.A.

Sergeant Frederick Mitchell,
5th Cameron Highlanders, was the
fourth son of Frederick Mitchell and
of his wife Elspeth Martin, 4 Reform
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
six years of age and was unmarried,
and at one time was employed as a
machineman with Messrs Douglas
Fraser & -Sons at AYestburn Foundry.
He joined the army in 1908 as a pri-
vate in the 5th Cameron Highlanders,
and had completed four years' service
in India with his regiment when war
broke out. Sergeant Mitchell went
across to France in December 1914,
and took part in a great many en-
gagements, in one of which in 1915
he was wounded. On the 7th of May
1917 Sergeant Mitchell was again
wounded in action and died the same
day in a Canadian Field Hospital in
France. The chaplain, in writing to
his mother, said that her son had been
laid side by side with other gallant
comrades in the cemetery of the little
French town of Aubigny, not far
from Arras. Sergeant Mitchell's
younger brother, Private James
Mitchell, served also at the front
with the Cameron Highlanders.

Gunner Charles Carnegie, Royal
Field Artillery, was the son of David
Carnegie and of his wife Barbara
Anderson, Brokpan, South Africa,
and grandson of Hugh Anderson, 16
West Keptie Street, Arbroath. Be-
fore he enlisted he was employed as
a postman in Arbroath. Gunner Car-
negie joined the Royal Field Artillery
in September 1915, and was killed in
France on the 29th of April 1917.

2nd-LT. R, MILLER, A. &. S. H.

Second-Lieutenant Robert Gor-
don Miller, Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders, thirty-two years of age,
was the son of Mrs Miller, Ancrum
Road, Dundee. He was a native cf
Arbroath, and a brilliant pupil of the
High School. From there he went on
to St Andrews University, where he
graduated. For three years he was
assistant minister at Paisley Abbey,
and afterwards became minister of
St Mary's Parish Church, Dumfries.
Mr Miller joined the army as a com-
batant and went to the front in
1916. He was wounded in April,
and died on the 11th of May 1917.

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PTE. G. SPENCE, ROYAL SCOTS.

PTE. WILLIAMSON, CANADIANS.

Private Georgk Spence, 12th
Royal Scots, twenty-one years of age,
was the youngest son of James
Spence, Beechwood Place, South-
muir, Kirriemuir. Before enlisting,
in October 1915, he was an uphol-
sterer with Mr D. T. Wilson, Ar-
broath. He went to France in Janu-
ary 1916, and in April was wounded
and invalided home. He returned to
France, and was again wounded on
the 3rd of May 1917, and died the
following day. Two months latei
his brother was also killed in action.

SGT. C. MOIR, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant Charles Moir, Black
Watch, twenty-nine years of age,
was the son of Alexander Moir,
joiner, Friockheim. Soon after the
outbreak of war he enlisted as a
private in the Black Watch. He was
a leading member of the Friockheim
Dramatic Club, a keen supporter of
the Good Templar Lodge, and a good
musician. He was promoted to the
rank of sergeant shortly before his
death, which took pace on service
on the 23rd of October 1916.

Private Arthur S. Williamson,
28th Canadian Infantry, was a native
of Arbroath, and lived at 22 Dish-
land Street. He was thirty-one
years of age and had served his ap-
prenticeship as a tailor with Messrs
F. & J. Selby. He had also been em-
ployed for a short time at the Ar-
broath Post Office before he left for
Canada, where he joined the colours.
He was wounded at the battle of the
Somme, and killed in action at
Fresnoy on the 7th of May 1917.

PTE. DAVID LAIRD, GORDONS.

Private David Laird, 2nd Gordon
Highlanders, was the son of Alex-
ander Laird and of his wife Agnes
Kidd, Muirlieads, Carmyllie. He
was nineteen years of age and was a
ploughman at Guildy Den, Monikie.
He joined the Black Watch in May
1915, but was transferred to the Gor-
don Highlanders. While in France
he was struck by a falling tree and
was sent to Dartmouth Military
Hospital. After returning to France
he was again wounded, and died in
Rouen Hospital in October 1916.

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2nd-LT. J. N. BENNETT, R.G.A. PTE. JAMES R. WOOD, A. & S.H.

Second-Lieutenant John Nicoli.
Bennett, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Arbroath, was the son of Mrs Ben-
nett. 7 Pilmour Links, St Andrews.
He was thirty-seven years of age and
had married Janey L. Wilson only a
month before he was killed. Lieut.
Bennett had been a solicitor with
Mr Norman M'Bain, Hill Street. Ar-
broath for about seven years. He was
prominent in golfing circles in For-
farshire and Fifeshire, and was the
winner of the championship trophies
of both the Arbroath and the Ar-
broath Artisan Clubs. In December
191o he joined the Artists' Rifles,
Officers' Training Corps, was
gazetted second lieutenant, R.G.A. ,
early in 1917, and went to France in
April of that year. He had only
been at the front for three . weeks
when he was hit on the head by a
piece of shell and killed instan-
taneously on the 19th of May 1917.
He was buried in the St Laurent-
Blangy Cemetery, near Arras. An
officer writing said: — "Although he
has been with the battery but a few
days, we all, both officers and men,
thought a good deal of him."

Private James R. E. Wood. Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders, was the
youngest son of Colin Wood, coach-
builder, and of his wife Mary Brand,
6 Academy Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty -five years of age and un-
married. Before joining the army he
was employed at the works of Messrs
Douglas Fraser&Sons. In November
1915 he enlisted as a private in the
Scottish Horse, but was afterwards
transferred to the Black Watch, and
later to the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders. He served in Salonika,
and was reported missing between
the 8th and 9th of May 1917. Ten
months later he was officially reported
as presumed killed on that date.

PTE. W. BELL, BLACK WATCH.

Private William D. Bell, 9th
Black Watch, son of William Bell,
Kirkton of Guthrie, had just finished
his apprenticeship as an engineer with
Messrs G. & J. Fitchet, Gighty Burn,
when he joined the army in May 1916.
He served in France, and was killed
on the 14th of April 1917. His
brother, James,, was killed in the war.

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PTE. W. FLEMING, CAMERONS.

GNR. ALEX. MURRAY, R.F.A.

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ing, 5th Cameron Highlanders, nine-
teen years of age, was the son of
George Herschell Fleming, Fraser-
field, near Arbroath. He assisted his
father with his produce business in
Carnoustie district before joining the
army in 1916. Private Fleming was
wounded at Loos, and for some time
was in an Australian Hospital in
France and afterwards in Arbroath.
After rejoining his unit he was very
severely wounded in the eye and leg
during the Somme offensive, and died
in the Canadian Hospital at Etaples.
France, on the 12th of May 1917.

PTE. CRAIG, YORK & LANCS.

Private Wilfrid A. Craig. York
and Lancaster Regiment, was the
son of William Craig, cabinetmaker,
James Street, Arbroath. He was
married, and left one child. He
served his apprenticeship with his
father, and after studying at Aber-
deen he became manual instructor
and art teacher under the Rothesay
School Board. He was killed in
action on the 25th of May 1917.

Gunner Alexander Murray.
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
John Murray and of his wife Helen
Caird, Kirkstile, St Vigeans, Ar-
broath. He was nineteen years of
age, and was an apprentice engineer
at the Dens Iron Works. He joined
the army in September 1914 as a
private in the Royal Field Artillery,
went to France in 1916, and was
attached to the 47th Division. Heavy
Trench Mortar Battery. Gunner
Alexander Murray was wounded and
died shortly afterwards in No. 3
Canadian Casualty Clearing Station
in France on the 28th of May 1917.
He had three brothers in the army,
one of whom died whiLe in training,
another was in the Camerons, and
the third in the Army Pay Corps.

PTE. KENNY, SCOTTISH RIFLES.

Private James Kenny, Scottish
Rifles, 131 Kinloch Street. Car-
noustie, was at the outbreak of war
employed as a vanman with Messrs
Nicol & Smibert, Dundee. He was
married, and left two children. He
died on the 23rd of April 1917.

109

WIRELESS OFFICER BURNETT. DRIVER JOHN ROBB, R.F.A.

Wireless Officer James Bttrnett,
s.s. "Hollington," eighteen years of
age, was the eldest son of the Rev.
George Burnett, Rockliffe U.F.
Church. Glasgow, formerly of Friock-
heim, and of his wife Margaret
Howie. He was in the service of the
Marconi Company for a year, during
which time he made voyages to S.
America, Australia, and the West
Indies. He sailed as sole wireless
officer on the s.s. Hollington, a ship
of 11,000 tons, which was carrying
munitions of war to Archangel. North
of the Shetland Islands the Holling-
ton was attacked on the 2nd of June
1917 by a German submarine, and
after a fight of on© and a half hours
was torpedoed, and sank so suddenly
that only two of her crew managed
to escape. One of the two survi-
vors said: — "Wireless Officer Bur-
nett had sent out the S.O.S., and
came out of his cabin to give some
message to the captain. Then he
went back to wait for an answer to
his call, and must have gone down
with his ship standing by the instru-
ment just like the brave boy he was
— true to the last."

Driver John Robb, 39th D.A.C.,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
John Robb, shoemaker, and of his
wife Martha Will. 50 Leonard Street,
Arbroath. He was 19 years of age,
and before he enlisted he worked a
moulding machine at the Westburn
Foundry. He joined the army in
September 1914 as a driver in the
Forfarshire Battery of the Royal
Field Artillery, and went to France
with the 39th* D.A.C. in 1916. Dvr.
Robb was killed by a shell on the
6th of June 1917, and was buried at
Vlammertinghe, near Ypres.

SEAMAN F. RUSSELL. R.N.D.

Able-Seaman Francis Duthie
Milne Russell, Royal Naval Divi-
sion, was the son of Charles Russell.
40 Fergus Square, Arbroath. He
was nineteen years of age, and had
served his apprenticeship at Dens
Iron Works. He joined the R.N.D.
in 1915, and died of wounds in
November 1916. His brother,

Gunner Charles Russell, served in
the Royal Field Artillery, and had
been gassed.

PTE. JAMES SCRIMGEOUR, B.W.

DVR. T. S. CARNEGIE, A.S.C.

Private James Scrimgeour, 5th
Black Watch, twenty-one years of
age, was the son of James Scrim-
geour a,nd of his wife, Elizabeth S.
Nelson, 25 Elliot Street. Arbroath.
He was an apprentice! moulder with
Mr Nicol, Guthrie Port, and had
joined the Black Watch (T.) in 1913.
When war was declared Private
Scrimgeour was mobilised and went
into training at Broughty Ferry. He
went to France in November 1914,
and was wounded in May 1915. He
was transferred to the 74th Machine
Gun Corps, and he returned to
France in the following year. On the
8th of June 1917 he died of wounds
received in action the day before,
and was buried near Armentieres.

PTE. BROWN, BLACK WATCH.

Private W. M. Brown, Black
Watch, Bolshan, Friockheim, who.
before he enlisted, was an attendant
in the Royal Asylum, Montrose, was
married and left one child. Private
Brown was reported missing on the
23rd of April 1917 and was presumed
to have been killed on that date.

Driver Thomas Smith Carnegie,
Army Service Corps, 8 Don Street,
Forfar, was the son of William Car-
negie and of his wife Sarah Smith,
21 Hayswell Road, Arbroath. He
was thirty-eight years of age, and
had married Elizabeth Middleton,
and left a son and a daughter. He
was employed with the Strathmore
Auction Company when he joined the
army in August 1916. After about
a, year's service he died at Salonika
of pneumonia following injuries on
the 13th of June 1917.

PTE. FINLAY, SCOTS GUARDS.

Private Horace Finlay. 2nd Scots
Guards, twenty-two years of age, was
the son of W. F. Finlay, Officer of
Customs and Excise, 1 Walker Place,
Arbroath. He was a gardener on
Diummond Castle estate when he
joined Kitchener's Army in November
1914. After training in England he
went to France in November 1915.
and was killed by a bursting shell at
the Somme, near Le Coronfes, on the
24th of September 1916. His brother,
George, had also been at the front.

Ill

MAJOR OUCHTERLONY, R.E.

SEAMAN G. R. DAWSON, R.N.D.

Major John Pai.grave Heathcotf.
Otjchterlony, D.S.O.j Royal En-
gineers, thirty two years of age, was
tlie eldest son of Lieutenant-General
Ouehterlony of the Guynd, Arbroath.
He married Kathleen Spachman and
left one daughter. He entered the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich
at the age of sixteen, received his
commission in the Royal Engineers in
1901, and was stationed at Chatham,
Gibraltar, and Aldershot. He was
appointed head of the Roads Depart-
ment in Ashanti, West Africa, and
received the thanks of the Colonial
Office for his efficient services there.
He returned in 1915 and trained at
Buxton, and took to the front the
138th A.T.C. He served as staff
officer to the chief engineer, 4th Army
Corps, and was given the command
of the 102nd Field Company. He
was gazetted captain in 1912, and
major in 1916. Major Ouehterlony
was twice mentioned in despatches,
and was awarded the Distinguished
Service Order in June 1917: — "For
gallantry and devotion to duty on
several occasions during the period
from the 20th of September 1916 to

Able-Seaman George Rodger
Dawson, Royal Naval Division, was
the son of William Dawson, 10
Union Street West, Arbroath. He
was twenty-six years of age and un-
married, and was employed at Well-
gate Works. In November 1915 lie
joined the Royal Naval Division.
Seaman Dawson was reported mis-
sing on the 24th of April 1917, and
later officially reported to have been
killed in action on that date.

the 2nd of October 1916, on which he
reconnoiter.ed sites for new trenches
and posts in front of our first line,
going personally over the ground in
daylight under considerable shell and
rifle fire, and afterwards marking out
the lines by daylight under very try-
ing conditions. His example was
freely followed by his men and enabled
the work to be considerably acceler-
ated." Major Ouehterlony refused
a good appointment in Egypt as he
considered his duty lay in France.
He was killed in action near Ypres
on the 7th of June 1917 during trie
capture of the Messines Ridge.

112

DRIVER N. DEBOYS, R.F.A.

PTE. G. MANN, BLACK WATCH.

Drivee Norman Deboys, Koyal
Field Artillery, twenty-five years of
age, was the son of Robert Deboys,
40 St Vigeans Road, Arbroath. He
had been, in Port Glasgow and was
a grocer with the High Street Co-
operative Society, Ltd., when he
joined the R.F.A. in November 1915.
He was killed in action in France on
the 23rd of June 1917. His officer
wrote: — "A more cheerful worker I
could not wish for. His sergeant was
equally full of praise for his industry
and cheerfulness. Steady, pleasant
to deal with, and diligent, he was
always ready for a job, however un-
pleasant, and his coolness under fire
was a great help to those in charge,
and a fine example to the rest. He
had endeared himself to his whole
battery, and I feel his loss as a per-
sonal one."

PTE. W. DUNCAN, GORDONS.

Private W. Dttncan, Gordon High-
landers, was the son of Gordon Dun-
can, 100 Keptie Street, Arbroath.
Private Duncan was killed in action
in France on the 23rd of April 1917.

Private George Mann, 6th Black
"Watch, was the youngest son of
William Mann, Muirmills, Farnell.
He was twenty-two years of age ana
before he enlisted was a ploughman
at Fonah, Forfar. He joined the
Black Watch in August 1915, and
went to France in the following Feb-
ruary. On the 3rd of July 1917 Pri-
vate Mann was killed instantaneously
near Ypres along with fourteen com-
rades of his platoon by a shell which
destroyed the dug-out in which they
were sleeping. He was one of five
brothers who joined the colours.

DR. GEORGE MOTR, M.T., A.S.C.

Driver George Moir, Motor
Transport, Army Service Corps, lived
at 11 St Vigeans Road, Arbroath. He
was forty years of age, and had
married Charlotte Baird. Before
joining the army he was a chauffeur
with Mr Don, Tealing. He had been
over a year in the army and had
chiefly served in Mesopotamia. He
died in the Stationary Hospital at
Baghdad on the 24th of July 1917,
from the effects of the heat.

113

LT. RANDAL PLAYFORD, R.F.A.

SEAMAN W. REID, ROYAL NAVY.

LlEtTTENANT PATRICK R AN DAL PLAY-

ford, 1st West Lancashire Royal
Field Artillery, was the grandson of
Major Evan Bruoe-Gardyne, and
nephew of Miss Bruce Gardyne, of
Middleton. He was twenty-five years
of age. He had been at the School of
Mines, Camborne, Cornwall, and went
to take up a mining appointment in
South Africa in 1913, returning to
England just before the outbreak of
war. Having been in the Glenal-
mond Officers' Training Corps, he
got a commission and went to France
in September 1915. He took part in
many big engagements, including the
battle of the Somme. His name
was mentioned by his major as
having done splendid work, especially
just before his death. He was then
in command of his battery with only
two younger officers sent to replace
those killed at Ypres. For three
weeks Lieutenant Randal Pla.yford
was in full command, and was killed
by shrapnel just when the brigade
was relieved. According to his CO.
' ' his behaviour was an example of
the highest courage and never-
failing sense of duty."

Able-Seaman William Reid, Royal
Navy, was the fifth son of James
Reid. retired engine-driver, 20 Ogilvy
Place, Arbroath. He was thirty years
of age, unmarried, and had had nearly
fifteen years' service in the navy,
having joined as a "boy" in 1903. In
1913 he won the Victoria Medal for
big gun firing open to all the British
navy. Seaman Reid took part in the
battle of Jutland and was mentioned
in despatches and highly commended
for services rendered. He lost his
life through the explosion on board
H.M.S. Vanguard while anchored in
harbour on the 9th of July 1917. The
posthumous honour of the Russian
Medal of St George in recognition
of his services in the battle of Jut-
land was received by his parents
through the Admiralty in 1918.

PTE. CAMERON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Cameron. 6th
Black Watch, son of Andrew
Cameron, West Milldens, Guthrie,
was a gardener before enlisting. He
was wounded on the 27th of April
1917, and died on the 2nd of May.

114

PTE. JAMES CAMERON, H.L.

PTE. GEORGE ANDERSON, B.W.

Pkivate James Cameron, loth
Highland Light Infantry, was the
son of John Cameron, 35 Howard
Street, Arbroa.th. He was twenty
years of age and was a ploughman in
the employment of Mr Norris, at
Tulloes, near Letham. He joined the
11th Black Watch in June 1916, but
was afterwards transferred to the
15th Highland Light Infantry, in
which he qualified as marksman. He
had been about ten months in France
when in the early morning of the 15th
of July 1917, at Nieuport, on the Bel-
gian front, his battalion made a night
attack on a German position, and
Private Cameron was killed by a
shell. His commanding officer wrote
of him: — "He was one of the smart-
est men in my platoon, and I feel his
loss keenly for such men are hard to
replace. His comrades in the ranks
have lost a good friend, and I my-
self, have lost one of the most like-
able and reliable men I have ever
had the good fortune to command."
Private James Cameron had three
brothers with the colours, one of
whom served in Mesopotamia, and
one in Salonika.

Private George Anderson, 5th
Black Watch, Anderson Place, Inver-
keilor, was a carter on Ethie estate.
He was thirty-five years of age, had
married Nellie Kynoch Menmuir and
left one son and one daughter. Pri-
vate Anderson was much respected
and loved by all who knew him, and
although he hated the very idea of
war, when the time came to leave
his young wife and children he
never wavered. He joined up in
June 1916 and served in France until
the 11th of July 1917. On that day
he was killed in Belgium through
concussion caused by a shell which
passed through the roof of his dug-
out. His commanding officer wrote
that he was " a brave man who had
nobly done his bit."

PTE. G. BLACK, BLACK WATCH.

Private George Black, Black
Watch, 7 Panmure Street, Car-
noustie, was a labourer at Carnoustie
Engineering Works. He joined up
when he was just over sixteen years
of age. Private Black was killed in
action on the 23rd of April 1917.

115

SERGT. A. RENNIE, R.F.A.

SEAMAN HENRY TOCHER, R.N.

Sergeant Andrew Rennie, Royal
Field Artillery, Watery T3utts. Errol,
was th,e eldest son of Andrew Rennie
and of his wife Catherine Mann, 58
Helen Street, Arbroath. He was
thirty-one years of age, and had
married Kate Henderson and left
three sons and one daughter. Before
he joined the army in 1905 he was
employed as a passenger porter at
Arbroath station. Sergeant Rennie
was stationed in Ireland for three
years and afterwards passed into the
reserve. He was employed as a post-
man at Inohture when war broke out,
and he was recalled to the colours.
He was in the retreat from Mons,
took part in the first battle of Ypres.
was wounded at the battle of the
Marne, and was wounded a second
time in September 1916. For a time
he served as an instructor on Salis-
bury Plain, and in March 1917 was
promoted to the rank of sergeant in-
structor. On the 23rd of July 1917
Sergeant Rennie was killed in action
in France, and was buried near the
dug-out on the Zelebeke railway,
south-east of Ypres. He had a
brother in the Army Service Corps.

Seaman Henry Tocher, deckhand,
minesweeper, Royal Navy, 51 Lady-
loan, Arbroath, was the son of James
Tocher and of his wife Margaret
Crombie, Artrochie Schoolhouse,Logie
Buchan. He was forty-two years of
age and had married Elizabeth Will.
He was employed as a fireman by the
Arbroath Harbour Board before he
joined the navy in November 1915.
Seaman Tocher served as a deckhand
on the paddle minesweeper Queen of
the North for nearly two years
until, on the 20th of July 1917, his
ship was sunk in the English Cham
nel. No trace was ever found of him.

CPL. MORRISON, SCOTS GUARDS.

Corporal John Morrison, Scots
Guards, was the eldest son of Mrs
Morrison, Millgate Loan, Arbroath.
He was twenty-five years of age and
unmarried. Previous to» the out-
break of war Corporal Morrison was
a member of the Glasgow Police
Force. He was killed in 1916 by a
shrapnel shell which burst in the
trenches, killing and wounding
several others as well.

116

ARTIFICER MORTON, R.F.A.

GNR. WILLIAM MILLS, R.F.A.

Artificer Edward Douglas Mor-
ton, Royal Field Artillery, twenty-
two years of age, was the son of Mrs
Morton, 21 Duke Street, Arbroath.
He was finishing his apprentice-
ship as a fitter at the Dens Iron
Works when he was mobilised on the
outbreak of hostilities. He had
joined the 1st Forfarshire Battery
of the R.F.A. as a gunner in 1910,
and on the dec-laration of war was
sent to Bedford and thence to France
in May 1915. He was promoted
fitter on the field, and in October
went to Woolwich to pass the fitter's
test for his diploma. He returned to
France and died from gas poisoning
on the 25th of July 1917. On that
day a gas shell burst close to him in
the trench. He and several others
affected were immediately taken to
a gas-proof dug-out, but Fitter Mor-
ton soon became unconscious and ditd
in a few hours. He was buried just
south of the town of Poperinghe and
a cross was erected over his grave.
His officer wrote of him : — "He was
a splendid artificer and greatly liked
by everyone. His place in the bat-
tery will be very difficult to fill."

Gunner William Mills, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-two years of
age, was the son of Alexander A.
Mills, 16 Kyd Street, Arbroath. He
was an apprentice engineer at the
Westburn Foundry. Having joined
the Territorial Force he was mobilised
in September 1914 as a gunner in the
Forfarshire Battery of the R.F.A.,
and left for France in May 1915.
When in action near Ypres several
gas shells burst close to him, and
although he was immediately taken
to a gas-proof dug-out and thence to
the dressing station he gradually be-
came unconscious and died in a few
hours, on the 25th of July 1917. He
was buried in the British Military
Cemetery near Poperinghe. His
captain wrote that he was a
" splendid fellow and greatly liked
by everyone."

PTE. JAMES LEONARD, S.H.

Private James Leonard, Scottish
Horse, had been a gardener at the
Elms, Arbroath. He died of wounds
in 1917, leaving a widow and three
children.

117

CAPT. JAMES BRUCE, R.F.A.

PTE. SPENCE, BLACK WATCH.

Captain James Bruce, Royal Field
Artillery, was the third son of the
Bon. Frederick John Bruce of Seaton.
near Arbroath, and cousin of the
Earl of Elgin. H© was twenty-nine
years of age and unmarried. Like
the other members of his family,
Captain Bruce was a brilliant
musician. He had studied music on
the Continent, and was a 'cellist of
outstanding ability. He was an In-
trant to the Faculty of Advocates
when he joined the army in August
1914. After training with his bat-
tery at Bedford he went abroad with
it in May 1915, and served continu-
ously in all the different positions
which it occupied in the British line
up to the time when, as acting cap-
tain, he was killed in action near the
Ypres Canal on the 25th of July
1917. His epitaph on the family
tombstone at St Vigeans is : —

He nevere yet no vileinye ne sayde
In al his ljf unto no maner wight.

Two of Captain Brace's brothers
were with the colours. Charles having
been an officer in the Machine Gun
Corps, and Richard an officer in the
Black Watch.

Private Edward Y. Spence, 5th
Black Watch, was the son of James
E. Spence, Beechwood Place. South-
niuir, Kirriemuir, formerly of Ar-
broath. He was at one time em-
ployed as a clerk in the office of
Messrs W. and J. Mackintosh, soli-
citors. He enlisted shortly after the
outbreak of war and served in France
for two and a half years. On the
31st of July 1917, in the attack east
of Ypres. Private Spence was attached
to C Company as a signaller and ad-
vanced with them to St Julien, where
heavy fighting took place. He was
killed by a sniper soon after his
company had captured the German
position. His brother, George, was
killed on the 4th of May 1917.

PTE. R, MUCKHART, GORDONS.

Private Richard Muckhart, Gor-
dons, son of Mrs Muckhart, Pan-
bride, was a ploughman at Boysack,
near Arbroath. He was killed while
"gallantly advancing" to the attack
on the 16th of May 1917. Private
Muckhart had two brothers with the
colours.

118

CPL. F. JOHNSTON, M.M., R.F.A.

SEAMAN JAMES SPINK, R.N.

Corpokal Frederick: Johnston,
M.M., Royal Field Artillery, nine-
teen years of age, was the son of
William Johnston and of his wife
Elizabeth Ramsay Dorward, Colli-
ston Oastle Stables, near Arbroath.
He was an apprentice grocer with his
uncle Mr Peter Johnston, Hilltown,
Dundee, when he joined the army in
November 1914 as a gunner in the
R.F.A. After several months' train-
ing in England he went to France
in September 1915. He took part in
the battles of Loos, the Somme, and
the Ridges, and was promoted to the
rank of corporal on the field. Cor-
poral Johnston was awarded the Mili-
tary Medal for the following conspicu-
ous services in circumstances of ex-
treme danger, when he was buried
five times under exploding shells : —
" On the 30th of July near Mametz
Wood during important operations
all the O.P. wires of the batteries in
the Brigade were out, and there was
no communication to the front tren-
ches. The enemy were maintaining
a heavy barrage. This n.c.o. suc-
ceeded in mending his line in several
places, restoring communication and

Seaman James Findlay Spink,
Royal Navy, 22 John Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of James Spink
and of his wife Catherine Coull, 17
Ladybridge Street. He was forty -one
years of age and had married Betsy
Cargill and left four sons and three
daughters. He was a labourer at the
Arbroath Sawmills, when, in July
1916, he joined the navy as a deck-
hand on a minesweeper. Seaman
Spink was on H.M. Trawler George
Millburn when it was mined, and he
was drowned off Queenstown, Ireland,
on the 12th of July 1917.

keeping it restored till the conclu-
sion of the operations, whereby
valuable information was transmitted
to all brigades, and was the only
means of transmission in the Brigade
that proved successful on that day."
On the 31st of July 1917 Corporal
Johnston's gun was hit by a shell,
and he was killed by the explosion
of the ammunition. He was buried
at Voormezele. Two of his brothers
served with the forces, one in France
and the other in Mesopotamia.

110

GNR. THOS. GORDON, R.F.A.

PTE. J. LEE, BLACK WATCH.

Gunner Thomas Gordon. Royal
Field Artillery, 22 Guthrie Port, Ar-
broath, was the son of John Gordon
and of his wife Elizabeth Stewart, 19
Panmure Street. He married Janet
Munro, and left one daughter and
three sons, one of whom was also in
the R.F.A. He was forty years of
age aoid when war broke out was a
machineman at West burn Foundry.
Gunner Gordon joined the Forfar-
shire Battery of the R.F.A. in Sep-
tember 1914, and was afterwards
attached to the 51st Divisional Am-
munition Column.* He went to
France in May 1915. Gunner Gor-
don was engaged in driving a road
through the German lines captured
at Ypres in the advance of the pre-
ceding day when he was instan-
taneously killed on the 31st of July
1917 by a shell which seriously woun-
ded several of his comrades. His
officer wrote: — "He died in harness,
doing his duty and helping the ad-
vance of his division which now, as
in the past, has maintained its name
as a gallant fighting force.' He was
laid to rest where he fell, close to
the road he had helped to make."

Private John Lee, 6th Black
Watch. Millgate, Friockheim, was
the son of Mrs Alexander, 2 Murray
Place, Arbroath. He married Agnes
Courts, and left two sons and one
daughter. He was thirty-five years
of age and was working at Dens Iron
Works when he joined the army in
January 1917. After six months'
training he went to France, and was
killed on the 31st of July 1917.

PTE. N. SMITH, GORDONS.

Private Norman Smith, 7th Gor-
don Highlanders, twenty-three years
of age. was the son of Alexander
Smith, Barrelwell, Brechin, and was
brought up at Grange of Conon. He
was killed in action on the 13th of
November 1916.

PTE. J. PETERS. BLACK WATCH.
Private John Peters, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Alexander
Peters, Dilty Moss, Carmyllie. He
returned from Canada to join the
Black Watch, was wounded on the
Somme, and died in Orpington Hos-
pital, Kent, in October 1916.

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PTE. W. H. TODD, GORDONS. PTE. JAMES ROBERTSON, B.W.

Private William Hercules Todd.
10th Gordon Highlanders, was the
son of William Todd and of his wife
Mary Ann Norrie, 51 Millgate,
Friookheim. He was twenty-six
years of age and unmarried. Be-
fore he joined the army he was em-
ployed as a yarn bleacher with Mr
Robert Wood at Friookheim. In
October 1916 Private Todd joined the
3rd Black Watch but was afterwards
transferred to the 10th Gordon High-
landers early in 1917. He was woun-
ded at Arras in April and on the 31st
of July 1917 was killed in action at
Ypres. Private Todd had a brother
serving in France with the R.F.A.

GNR. ALEX. ADAMS, R.G.A.

Gunner Alexander Adams, Royal
Garrison Artillery, 5 Russell Street,
Arbroath, married Emily Black and
left two children. He was thirty-
three years of age and was employed
at Dens Iron Works when he joined
the army in May 1916. Gunner
Adams had been in France for
eleven months when he was killed
in action on the 1st of July 1917.

Private James C. Robertson, 6th
Black Watch, was the son of Ben-
jamin Robertson and of his wife Bar-
bara Ogilvie, Old Downie, Carnoustie.
He was twenty-four years of age, un-
married, and was a member of the
Glasgow police force when he joined
the Scottish Horse in December 1915.
Private Robertson was selected for a
course of signalling and passed first-
class. In January 1917 he went across
to France, and was then transferred
to the 6th Black Watch, with which
battalion he saw some heavy fighting
on the Somme and in various parts
of France. Private Robertson was
killed in action at Ypres on the 31st
of July 1917, and was buried in a
military cemetery near Turco Farm.

PTE. MORRISON, SOOTS GUARDS

Private James Morrison, 2nd
Scots Guards, was the son of James
Morrison. 43 Lady loan, Arbroath.
Before joining the army he was em-
ployed at the Abbey Leather Works.
Private Morrison, after being ten
months in France, was killed in
action on the 26th of July 1917.

121

L-CPL. J. WATT, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. SWANKIE, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal James William
Watt, 5th Black Watch, was the
third son of James B. Watt and of
his wife Agnes Mann, 50 Lochland
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
four years of age, and was unmarried.
At the outbreak of war he was an
apprentice engineer with Messrs
Alex. Shanks & Son, Ltd., at Dens
Iron Works. Being a Territorial
he was at once mobilised, and after
a few months' training he left for
France with the Arbroath detach-
ment of the 5th Black Watch (T.)
in the early part of November 1914.
Lance-Corporal Watt served at one
time in France as a despatch-rider,
and afterwards was attached to the
signalling corps of his battalion. He
was killed in action at Ypres on the
31st of July 1917. An officer of his
battalion wrote : — ' ' Lance-Corporal
Watt was one of the most reliable
men I had, and one of the bravest
soldiers in the battalion. He was
one of five of the best men of the
section who were all killed at the
same time in the front line of our
attack, and at the moment of a great
victory."

Private Daniel SwANKiE,5th Black
Watch, thirty-six years of age, was
the son of David Swankie and of his
wife Isabella Cargill, 18 John Street,
Arbroath. He was employed as a
collier near Edinburgh when he joined
the army in 1916. After being re-
ported missing he was presumed to
have died on the 31st of July 1917.

PTE. ROBERTSON, LIVERPOOLS.
Private David Robertson, Liver-
pool Regiment, was the son of Mrs
Robertson, Collier Street. Carnoustie.
He was an apprentice with Mr Mur-
doch, grocer, Ireland Street, and
afterwards was in Liverpool. Private
Robertson was wounded and gassed,
and died on the 16th of July 1917.

SERGT. MATTHEWS, CAMERON'S.
Sergeant Kred Matthews,
Camerons, 26 Fergus Square, Ar-
broath, was thirty-one years of age.
He had married Betsy Farquhar,
and had a hairdresser's business in
Guthrie Port. When war broke out
lie was working in the Fife coal
mines. He was killed in 1917.

122

L-SGT. ROBERT FINDLAY, B.W.

PTE. ROBERTSON, SEAFORTHS.

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Lance-Sergeant Ro*bert Gordon
Findlay, 5th Black Watch, nineteen
years of age, was the son of David
Findlay and of his wife Agnes Adam,
39 Dishland Street. Arbroath. Be-
fore going on active service Lance-
Sergeant Findlay was employed as a
labourer with Messrs James Keith
& Blackman Co., Ltd., High Street
Foundry. He joined the 5th Bat-
talion of the Black Watch (T.F.) in
January 1914, was mobilised for
active service in August, and pro-
ceeded to France with the battalion
in October. He served for three
years, was posted missing on the
31st of July 1917. and was presumed
to have been killed on that date.

L-CPL. CUSHNLE. CANADIANS.

Lance-Corporal George Ctjshnie,
44th Battalion Canadian Infantry,
twenty-nine years of age, was the son
of Alexander Cushnie and of his wife
Jane Harkness, Cross Roads, Friock-
heim. He was a joiner by trade,
had gone to America, and enlisted
at Winnipeg in June 1915. He was
killed on the 19th of November 1916.

Private Edward William Robert-
son, 8th Seaforth Highlanders,
eighteen years of age, was the son of
John Robertson and of his wife Kate
Hencock, 7 Arrott Street, Arbroath.
He was an apprentice mill mechanic
in the employment of Messrs Lowson,
Ltd., when he joined the 8th Seaforth
Highlanders in January 1917. Pri-
vate Robertson was reported missing
at Ypres on the 31st July 1917, and
was presumed killed on that date.

SGT. BARTON, SCOTTISH HORSE.
Sergeant Joseph Richard Bar-
ton, 3rd Scottish Horse, Thomas
Street, Carnoustie, was for twelve
years in the Royal Field Artillery,
seven of which were spent in India.
He was thirty-two years of age, and
on leaving the army he was employed
at Tennant's Chemical Works. On
the outbreak of war he at once en-
listed in the Scottish Horse. Ser-
geant Barton was killed in action.
He had one brother in the submarine
service of the navy, one in the
A. & S.H., and a third was employed
as a shipwright at a floating dock.

123

A.B. L. WILLIAMSON, R.N.D.

GNR. GEORGE G. KIDD, R.F.A.

Able Seaman Lawrence William-
son, Royal Naval Division, twenty
years of age, was the youngest son of
William Williamson and of his wife
Janet Petrie Gray, 3 Walker Place,
Arbroath. On leaving Arbroath
High School he entered the office of
Messrs Francis Webster & Sons,
Alma AVorks, and enlisted under the
Derby scheme a fortnight before the
completion of his apprenticeship as a
mercantile clerk. Able Seaman L.
Williamson enlisted in the Royal
Naval Division on the 16th of
November 1915. He was attached to
the Hawke Battalion. After under-
going training at the Crystal Palace
and at Blandford he went to France
towards the end of June 1916, being
transferred to the Nelson Battalion.
He was for a time in the trenches,
and on the 13th of November 1916
took part in the battle of the Ancre,
in which the battalion suffered heavy
losses. Reported missing, in July
1917 intimation was received that it
had been officially assumed that he
had been killed in action on the date
mentioned, and a week later this
was confirmed.

Gunner George Gibson Kidd.
Royal Field Artillery, 129 Kinloch
Street, Carnoustie, was the only son
of William Kidd. joiner, and of Mrs
Kidd, Thomas Street. He was
twenty-five years of age. and was
unmarried. At the time lie enlisted
he was employed as an iron turner
with Messrs George Anderson & Co.,
Ltd.. Carnoustie. On the 4th of
August 1917 Gunner Kidd died in a
dressing station in France of wounds
received in action. His captain said
all his old comrades and officers re-
garded him as the most willing and
cheerful worker in the battery.

PTE. BENNETT, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Bennett, 5th
Black Watch, 40 Green Street, Ar-
broath, was the youngest son of Mrs
David Bennett, 35 East Abbey
Street. He was twenty-eight years
of age and left a widow. He was at
one time a hairdresser in Arbroath,
but when he enlisted at the begin-
ning of the war he was employed in
Dundee. Private Bennett was killed
in action on the 3rd of August 1917.

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PTE. W. DUNCAN, SEAFORTHS.

GNR. FRANK ROBINSON, R.F.A.

Private William Duncan, 7th
Seaforth Highlanders, twenty-three
years of age, was the son of David
Reid Duncan, Drummygar, Carmyllie,
near Arbroath. He was employed at
Balglassia Farm, Brechin, when he
joined the army in December 1916.
He went overseas to France, and on
the 7th of August 1917, when he was
holding the front line, he was hit by
a shell, and killed instantaneously.
On the afternoon of the following day
he was buried beside a comrade who
was killed by the same shell in the
military cemetery at Ruyaulcourt,
near Gouzeaucourt. His platoon
officer, writing of his death, said: —
"I am indeed grieved to lose him as
he was a good soldier, and carried
out his duties quietly and efficiently."

PTE. JAS. BELL, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Bell, 5th Black
Watch, Bridgend, Pitmuis, was the
son of William Bell, blacksmith,
Kirkton of Guthrie. He enlisted in
August 1914, and was killed in action.
His brother. William, was killed in
April 1917.

Gunner Frank Robinson, Forfar-
shire Battery, Royal Field Artillery,
was the fourth son of John Robinson,
cutler, 29 Guthrie Port, Arbroath.
He was twenty-nine years of age and
unmarried, and before he enlisted
was employed as a plater at the en-
gineering works of the James Keith
& Blackman' Company, Ltd. In

October 1914 he joined the second
line of the Forfarshire Battery of
the R.F.A., and went to France in
May 1915. Gunner Robertson was
struck by a shell and killed instan-
taneously on the loth August 1917.

PTE. R . DEWAR, BLACK WATCH.

Private R. D. Dewar, Black
Watch, was the son of R. D. Dewar,
Berryfauld, Arbroath. He was at
one time with Messrs Clark & Oliver,
S.S.G. He was originally in the
Scottish Horse, and served with
them in Gallipoli. where he was
wounded, but was later transferred
to the Black Watch. He was killed
in action on the 31st of July 1917.
Private Dewar had a brother also in
the Black Watch who was wounded.

125

CAPT. T. B. MYLES, M.C., H.L.I. RIFLEMAN M'LEOD, LON. REGT.

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Captain Thomas Booth Myles,
Highland Light Infantry, twenty-
four yeaa's of age, was the fourth son
of Charles Y. Myles. Wellbank, Ar-
broath. He married Bella Shand Hill,
Aberdeen, and left one son. Cap-
tain Myles was an enthusiastic
cricketer and footballer, and a power-
ful swimmer, being one of the few
who could claim to have swum across
the Tay. As an out-door life had
great attractions for him he became
a student at the Agricultural College.
Aberdeen. When war broke out he
joined the University detachment of
the Gordon Highlanders, and after-
wards received a commission, being
posted to the H.L.I. He went to
France with his battalion, and took
part in many engagements, being
afterwards promoted to a captaincy.
On the 1st of August 1917 Captain
Myles was trying to get in touch with
another regiment to ascertain what
tbe enemy dispositions were when he
was shot by a sniper. His command-
ing officer wrote: — "He was one of
my most valued company comman-
ders, and his place will be hard to
refill. Only recently he was in com-

Rifleman John M'Leod, 6th Lon-
don Regiment, was the son of John
M'Leod. 13 Glebe Street, Dundee.
He was thirty-two years of age, and
had married Esther Marion Styles,
and left one daughter. He was with
the Arbroath Equitable Co-operative
Society, Ltd., and was a baker in
London when he joined the army in
October 1916. He served overseas,
and was killed in action on the 17th
of November 1917.

mand of two raiding parties which
did particularly good service, for
which lie had been recommended for
the Military Cross." After his death
this honour was awarded to Captain
Myles, and the following notice ap-
peared in the "London Gazette" :'—
"T /Lieut. (T/Capt.) Thomas Booth
Myles. H.L.I., whose conduct when
commanding two companies in a raid
was a fine example to the men, and
was largely responsible for the suc-
cess of the raid, during which 79
prisoners were taken, and valuable
information was obtained." Captain
Mylts had three brothers in the army.

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PTE. A. ALLAN, CANADIANS.

PTE. ANDERSON, ROYAL SCOTS,

Private Alexander Allan. C
Company, 195th Overseas Battalion,
Regina, Govan, Sask., Canada, was
the son of James and Barbara Allan.
Bolshan, Friockheim He was em-
ployed as a ploughman in Govan,
when he enlisted in 1916. He served
overseas, and was killed in action
on the 15th of August 1917.

SGT. A. MARSHALL, M.M., S.R.

Sergeant Alexander Marshall,
M.M.. 9th Scottish Rifles, twenty-
three years of age, was the step-son
of William Rae, West Mains of Auch-
mithie, near Arbroath. He was a
valet to Sir Wm. Dunn, in London,
when he joined the 1st Scottish Rifles.
He went to France in December 1914,
distinguished himself by his fine
soldierly qualities, and was rapidly
promoted sergeant. He' was wounded
in September 1916, and later was
transferred to the 9th Battalion.
Sergeant Marshall was awarded the
Military Medal for bravery in the
field. He was reported missing on
the 3rd of May 1917, and was pre-
sumed killed on that date.

Private William Anderson, Royal
Scots, 21 Fergus Street. Arbroath,
was the son of William Anderson, 31
Green Street. He was twenty-five
years of age, had married Charlotte
Cameron, and left one daughter. He
was employed as a fitter at Dens Iron
Works before joining the Black
Watch in March 1917. Afterwards
lie was tranferred to the Royal
Scots, went overseas to France, and
was wounded in April 1917. After
eighteen months' service he was re-
ported missing on the 22nd of August
1917. and later was reported killed
near Ypres on that date. News of
his death was also received from the
chaplain, Rev. Duncan M'Lean, a
native of Arbroath.

CPL. W. RENNIE, M.M., B.W.

Corporal W. Rennie, M.M., 8th
Black Watch. Arbroath, twenty-seven
years of age, was a brother of Mrs
Kydd,23WTestMill Wynd. He joined
the army in 1915, and in 1916 was
awarded the Military Medal. He was
reported missing on the 3rd of May
1917, and afterwards reported killed.

127

PTE. FALCONER, 0. & B. L.

PTE. WISHART, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Gordon Falconer,
Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry,
twenty-one years of age, was the son
of James Falconer and of his wife
Isabella M. Henderson, Brinkburn,
Carnoustie. He was on the staff cf
the Carnoustie branch of the Bank
of Scotland when lie joined the army
in April 1915 as a sapper in the City
of Dundee Royal Engineers. At the
end of 1916 he was transferred to the
1st Bucks. Battalion of the Oxford
and Bucks. Light Infantry and went
with them to France early in 1917.
Six months later he was attached to
the Trench Mortar Battery, and had
been with it only a week when he was
killed in action just outside Ypres on
the 9th of August 1917. His captain
wrote: — "I was struck by his con-
fident and fearless manner, and gave
him important work to do because I
knew lie would carry out all his
orders to the minutest detail. His
company commander in the battalion
had nothing but praise of him. He
is now buried outside Ypres and I am
sure will rank among the best of the
brave men who have fallen in the
third battle of Ypres." A comrade

Private Albert Wishart, 5th
Black Watch, twenty years of age,
was the son of Alexander Wishart,
and of his wife Jessie Kidd. 16
Panmure Street, Arbroath. He was
an apprentice fitter with Messrs
Alex. Shanks & Son, Ltd., at Dens
Iron Works, and having joined the
Territorial Force, was mobilised in
August 1914.- He served for three
years, during which time he was
twice wounded. On the 31st of July
1917 he was posted missing, and
later was reported as presumed to
have died on that date.

in arms, who had been through the
battle with him. wrote: — " He
brought up the party for which he
was acting as guide with splendid
courage and skill, through some very
heavy shelling. Just as he got to
the place a single shell came over,
and the shook of the explosion must
have killed him. His work was done,
and he fell as he would have wished,
facing the enemy, calm, brave, and
unmoved, and unshaken by the
enemy fire."

128

L-CPL. PEARSON, CANADIANS.

PTE. D. BAXTER, SEAFORTHS.

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Lance-Corporal John Pearson,
M.G.S.. 6th Brigade, 2nd Canadians,
thirty-three' years of age, was the son
of John Pearson, 27 New Road, For-
far, and brother of Mrs J. A. Hast-
ings, 8 Ponderlaw Lane, Arbroath.
Before going to Canada he had been
in the office of Mr J. P. Anderson,
solicitor, Forfar. He joined the
army as a private in January 1915.
He served in Franc© from the be-
ginning of 1916, was wounded the
following year, and was killed at
Arras on the 22nd of August 1917.

ENGINEER A. WISHART, R.N.

Engineer Alexander Wishart,
Royal Navy, 1 Dalhousie Terrace,
Dundee, was the son of Stephen
Wishart, ship carpenter, Arbroath,
and husband of Elizabeth Nairn. He
served his apprenticeship with Messrs
Corsar Brothers and left England in
May 1917 as chief engineer of the
R.N. Transport s.s. Taplow to load
copper bar for Port Talbot. Nothing
more was heard until the Taplow was
posted missing from the 5th of June.
His death was officially intimated.

Private David H. Baxter, 8th
Seaforth Highlanders, 49 Jedburgh
Road, Plaistow, London, was the son
of David Baxter, 16 Taymouth Ter-
race, Carnoustie. He was thirty-
nine years of age, and had married
Mary Leau. He was at one time em-
ployed as a clerk in the Arbroath and
St Vigeans Parish Council Office, but
when he enlisted, under the Derby
scheme, in May 1916, he was head
clerk with Messrs Samuel Price &
Sons, solicitors, London. He joined
the Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, and went to France in 1917,
when he was transferred to the Sea-
forths. Private Baxter was killed in
Belgium on the 22nd of August 1917.

GNR. GEORGE OWLER, R.G.A.

Gunner George Owler, Royal
Garrison Artillery, thirty-four years
of age, was the son-in-law of T.
Martin, Baragneen, Arbroath. He
was in the employment of the
Broughty Ferry Corporation. Gunner
Owler had been at the front for six
months when he was wounded, and
died in hospital in August 1917.

129

FITTER GEO. D. DICK, R.G.A.

L-CPL. FARQUHAR, GORDONS.

Fitter George D. Dick, 25th Siege
Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, 72
Brechin Road, Arbroath, was the
youngest son of James Brown Dick,
38 Hamilton Green. He was thirty
years of age, married Annabella
Mathiew, and left two daughters and
one son. He was a fitter at Dens
Iron Works. He joined the army in
November 1914 as a gunner in the
R.F.A. He served for about two
years in Arbroath, Forfar, and Stir-
ling, and latterly in a munition fac-
tory in Govan. He was then drafted
to Woolwich Arsenal to go through a
test proving him capable of acting as
fitter of an 8-inch howitzer. In 1916
he was transferred to the 25th Siege
Battery, R.G.A., and drafted to
France, where he was engaged in
most of the heavy fighting in the
Arras and Somme districts. Later
he was on the Belgian coast, working
at a forge attached to the battery
commanded by Mr Lloyd George's
son, when, on the 5th of August
1917, he was instantaneously killed
by big gun shell fire. He was
buried in Bains British Cemetery,
Dunkirk.

Lance-Corporal Hugh Farqtjhar,
9th Gordon Highlanders (Pioneers),
was the son of Henry Farquhar,
slater, 11 Convent Street, Arbroath
He was twenty-eight years of age,
and was at one time employed as a
plasterer with Mr Frank Middleton,
Lindsay Street. He took a keen in-
terest in Freemasonry, and was a
member of Lodge St Thomas. Lance-
Corporal Farquhar had gone to Van-
couver, but he returned and joine.l
the 9th Gordons. He was on active
sen-ice for two years and on the 23rd
of August 1917, at Ypres, he was
struck by a bullet and killed instan-
taneously. The Chaplain said: — "He
was a fine soldier and a good man,
and did his duty nobly to the last."

PTE. GEO. THOMSON, H.L.I.

Private George Thomson, High-
land Light Infantry, was the son of
Mrs Frederick Thomson, Gardyne
Street, Friockheim. When he volun-
teered for the army he was in the
employment of Messrs Arthur &
Company, Glasgow. Private Thomson
was killed in action in France in 1916.

130

SGT. WM. PORTER, M.M., B.W.

STOKER ALEX. A. FORBES, R.N.

Sergeant William Porter. 5th
Black Watch, 19 Hays Lane, Ar-
broath, was the son of James Porter
and of his wife Helen Hutchison, 16
Jamieson Street. He was twenty-
four years of age and unmarried, and
was employed as a mechanic at the
Dens Iron Works. Sergeant Porter
joined the Territorials in 1909 as a
private in the Royal Highlanders, and
at the outbreak of war was mobilised,
and left for France with the 5th
Black Watch in November 1914. He
attained the rank of sergeant and in
1917 he was awarded the Military
Medal for gallant conduct in face of
the enemy. Afterwards he distin-
guished himself in organising and
consolidating work. Sergeant Porter
died of heart failure on the 29th of
August 1917 at Poperinghe. He had
gone to bed apparently in his usual
health, and was found dead next
morning. A comrade wrote: — "All
the boys liked and admired Bill, as
they called him. His death was the
last thing we looked for — it was the
hardest of misfortunes after coming
through all that he did that he should
pass away so suddenly."

Stoker Alexander Anderson
Forbes, Royal Navy, forty-five years
of age, was the son of George Forbes
and of his wife Ann Anderson, Leys-
mill. He had joined the navy as
stoker petty officer in 1894, and had
received the Long Service and Good
Conduct Medal. He was employed as
a cranesman at Leysmill Quarries
when he was called upas a reservist.
He was on board H.M.S. Faulkner,
one of the ships commandeered from
the Chilian Government, and while
serving in the North Sea contracted
a chill by which he was disabled. He
was discharged by the Admiralty
"with honour" in March 1916, and
after a lingering illness died of con-
sumption on the 30th of August 1917.

PTE. J. M'LAUCHLAN, A. & S. H.

Private John M'Lauchlan, Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders, lived at
147 Kinloch Street, Carnoustie. He
was three times wounded, and suf-
fered from shell shock and trench
fever. He was reported missing on
the 22nd of August 1917, and was
presumed to have died on that date.

131

SGT. D. B. YOUNG, R.A.M.C

SGT.-MAJ. DUNCAN, CAMERONS.

Sgt. David Buchan Young, Royal
Army Medical Corps, 102 Lea Road,
Northampton, was the son of David
B. Young, 8 Woodlands Crescent,
Muswell Hill Road, London, formerly
of Arbroath. He was twenty-nine
years of age, had married Isobel Mar-
garet Sutcliffe, and left two sons. He
had had a brilliant training in art,
having gained the national scholarship
and the local one for Burnley, as well
as the Townley Gold Medal. He also
took the A.R.C.A., South Kensing-
ton, and a full diploma. He was
second art master at the Northamp-
ton School of Art when, in October
1915. he joined the Army Medical
Corps as a private in preference to
accepting a commission, which had
been offered him. Before going to
France in February 1916 he was pro-
moted sergeant and six months later
he was invalided home from the
Somme front suffering from trench
fever. After rejoining, Sergeant
Young was detailed to Mesopotamia,
and went up the Tigris to Baghdad.
On his way home to England on board
a hospital ship he died from heat
stroke in August 1917.

Sergeant-Major J. C. Duncan,
10th Cameron Highlanders, thirty-
three years of age, was the son of
D. Duncan, Inverquiech, Alyth, for-
merly at the Guynd, near Carmyllie.
He was a member of tlie Arbroatli
Amateur Football Club, and was an
enthusiastic athlete, having won
many heavyweight events in local
games. He belonged to the County
Constabulary when he joined up in
August 1914 as a private in the Scot-
tish Horse. He served with them as
quartermaster-sergeant at Gallipoli,
and on the evacuation of the Dar-
danelles was sent to Egypt. He
was then transferred to the 10th
Camerons, and fought with them at
Salonika, where he was fatally woun-
ded on the 2nd of September 1917.
He died on the 7th and was buried in
the British Cemetery at Nicoslav.

PTE. GEO. MACFARLANE, B.W.

Private George Macfarlane,
Black Watch, was the son of Charles
Macfarlane, Scroggiefield, Glamis,
formerly of Carmyllie. He was
killed in France in 1917.

132

L-CPL. STEPHEN CARRIE, R.S.F.

GNR. JOHN HENDERSON, R.F.A.

Lance-Corporal Stephen Carrie,
9th Royal Scats Fusiliers, 37 Ann
Street, Arbroath, was the sixth son
of James Carrie and of his wife Mary
Ann Robertson, 9 West Grimsby. He
was twenty-five years of age and had
married Clara Low, and left two
daughters. At the time he enlisted
he was a barman in the employment
of Mr D. D. Barnett, Millgate Loan.
In April 1916 he joined the army as a
private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers,
and after six months' training was
sent to the front, where he was pro-
moted, and served for a year. Lance-
Corporal Carrie was severely wounded
on the 8th of September 1917, and
died on his way to the Base Hospital.
His commanding officer said that he
was a most gallant and trustworthy
man and a great favourite with every
man in the platoon. Lanee^Corporal
Carrie had three brothers in the army
— one who served in France with the
Black Watch for three years, an-
other who came across with the Aus-
tralians and was severely wounded,
and a third who served for some time
in Mesopotamia with the Royal
Field Artillery.

Gunner John Henderson, Royal
Field Artillery, 18 St Mary Street,
Arbroath, was the son of John Hen-
derson, Kirkton of Rattray, Blair-
gowrie, and of Mrs Henderson, later
of 94 Helen Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty-seven years of age, and
had married Maggie Jane M'Gregor,
and left two daughters. He had been
a fireman at the Public Baths, but
at the time of joining the army, in
April 1916, he was storekeeper with
the Equitable Co-operative Society,
He was killed in action on the 19th of
September 1917 and was buried at La
Clyte, a peaceful little cemetery three
miles north of Dran outne. His officer
wrote of him : — ' ' He was always
willing and cheerful, and conducted
himself with great bravery under
many trying experiences."

PTE. J. HENDERSON. GORDONS.

Private James Henderson, Gor-
don Highlanders, was the son-in-law
of James Fotheringham, Manora
Bank. Carnoustie, and was a linotype
operator in the "Dundee Advertiser"
Office. He was killed in May 1917.

133

SEAMAN W. PATTULLO, R.N.R.

PTE. J. M'BAY, BLACK WATCH.

Seaman William Pattullo, Royal
Naval Reserve, was the eldest son of
D. Pattullo and of his wife Margaret
Chaplin. 35 Howard Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-seven years of age,
and unmarried. He had served his
apprenticeship at Westburn Foundry,
but when he joined up he was an iron-
turner in the employment of Messrs
Corsar Brothers, manufacturers. In
February 1916 he joined the Mechani-
cal Transport, and being discharged,
he again answered the call for men
for the Royal Naval Reserve in
December. On the 12th of Septem-
ber 1917 Seaman Pattullo lost his
life at sea off Lerwick by the blowing
up of his ship by enemy action. He
was of a bright and cheery disposi-
tion, faithful to duty to the last. A
comrade said that even when his ship
was in danger he was quietly talk-
ing of his journey home and of his
leave which was due when the ship
should have entered Lei-wick har-
bour. Loved by all his mates, the
men of the group of ships to which
he was attached collected a sum of
money to be spent on erecting a
memorial.

Private James M'Bay. 6th Black
Watch, twenty-five years of age, was
the son of Mrs M'Bay, 68 Brechin
Road. Arbroath. He was employed
as a ploughman with Mr Binnie,
Fauldie Hill. Arbirlot, when he joined
the army in March 1916 as a private
in the 6th Black Watch (Territorials).
He served in France from July until
September 1916, when he was in-
valided home. He returned to
France in May 1917, and, after pre-
viously having been missing, was
posted as killed in action on the 16th
of September. Private M'Bay had
two brothers serving in France —
Driver William M'Bay, R.F.A., and
Private Alex. M'Bay, Canadians.

CAPT. A. MORISON. ESSEX RGT.

Captain Alfred James Morison,
Essex Regiment, was the youngest
son of J. R. Morison, Carnoustie, and
nephew of John P. Morison, North
of Scotland Bank. Captain Morison,
who was thirty-five years of age,
joined the Royal Fusiliers and in 1915
received a commission in the Essex
Regiment. He was killed in 1917.

134

ENG. A. SMITH, MERC. MARINE.

PTE. GEORGE MARSHALL, B.W.

Second Engineer Alexander D.
Smith, s.s. Gibraltar, was the second
son of Alexander Smith, solicitor,
and Mrs Smith, Lochshade Cottage,
Viewfield Road, Arbroath. He was
twenty -nine years of age. and had
been an engineer at Dens Iron
Works. On the 12th of September
1917, when second engineer on s.s.
Gibraltar, Transport 647, he was
killed in the Mediterranean by the
action of an enemy submarine. His
only brother, Lance-Corporal James
D. Smith was killed in action at the
battle of Loos.

PTE. NORRIE, BLACK WATCH.

Private E. Norrie, Black Watch,
was the son of George Norrie, West-
haven. He was an apprentice iron-
moulder with Messrs George Ander-
son & Co., Ltd., Carnoustie, and was
only sixteen years of age when he
enlisted in November 1914. He was
invalided home, but returned to
France, where he had been for a year
when he died of gunshot wounds on
the 6th of September 1917. Private
Norrie had four brothers serving.

Private George Marshall, 6th
Black Watch, was the son of Robert
Marshall and of his wife Mary Smith,
21 Lordburn, Arbroath. He was forty
years of age, had married Jane Ed-
wards, and left a son and a daughter.
He had served his apprenticeship as
a lath-splitter in Arbroath, but at
the time of joining the army, in May
1915, he was employed with Mr
Lamond, Cowdenbeath. He was sta-
tioned at Perth and Nigg with the
9th Black Watch, and after three
months' training went to France
with his unit. He was later trans-
ferred to the 6th Black Watch, and,
after serving in France for about two
years, was wounded in the fighting
near Arras, and died on the 16th of
September 1917. He was buried in
the cemetery adjoining the Hospital
at Dozingham, six miles from Ypres.

PTE. JAMES THOMSON, B.W.

Private James Thomson, Black
Watch, twenty-two years of age, was
a farmer at Fauldiehill, by Arbroath.
He joined the army in 1916 and was
killed in action in France in 1917.

135

SGT. A. E. SHAW, ROYAL SCOTS. SAPPER L. SIM, CANADIANS.

Sergeant Alfred Ernest Shaw,
9th Royal Scots. 31 Broughton Place,
Edinburgh, was the fifth son of
William Shaw, plumber, and of his
wife Jessie Dorward, 48 Fergus
Square. Arbroath. He was twenty-
four years of age and was a Highland
ornament-maker and jeweller in the
employment of Messrs Mackay &
Chisholm, Princes Street, Edinburgh.
Being a Territorial, he was mobilised
on the outbreak of war, and went to
France in February 1915 with the 9th
Royal Scots, "the Dandy Ninth." He
saw a great deal of hard fighting, his
battalion, owing to the extraordin-
ary pressure of the enemy, having
at one time occupied the same
trenches for thirty-one days,. A
year later he was invalided home
suffering from myalgia, and on his
return to France, after being em-
ployed for some time as a hut-builder
he was promoted to the rank of ser-
geant. He again took part in many
engagements, and was made platoon
sergeant, and it was while leading
his platoon in an attack on the
enemy trenches that he was killed
on the 20th of September 1917.

Sapper Lewis H. Sim. 3rd Cana-
dian Tunnelling Company, twenty-
four years of age, was the son of Mrs
Sim, 56 Helen Street, Arbroath. He
was working with Mr James Grant,
Firthfield, but left for Canada, and
in October 1915, when he joined the
army there, he was a farm servant
at Nanticoke. Ont. He had only been
a few months at the front when he
died of shrapnel wounds- in the leg
and back, on the 24th of Septem-
ber 1917, in the 14th Field Ambu-
lance, Belgium.

CPL. D. WYLLIE, GLOUCESTERS.

Corporal David J. Wyllie,
Gloucester Regiment, was the only
son of Mrs Wyllie, 11 Fergus Square,
Arbroath. He was (twenty-seven
years of age, and had married Cora
Smith, leaving two children. Corpl.
Wyllie served his apprenticeship as
a moulder in Arbroath, but went to
America a number of years ago.
When war broke out he returned to
Britain and enlisted in the Glouces-
ters. He was killed in action on
the 9th of October 1917.

136

CPL. G. BOYD, AUSTRALIANS.

GNR. DAVID D. CLYNE, R.G.A.

Cohporal George F. Boyd. Aus-
tralian Field Artillery. 39 Brougham
Street, Melbourne, was the son cf
George Boyd, shoemaker, Lochland
Street, Arbroath, and of his wife
Helen Finlayson, who now resides at
4S Hayburn Street. Partick, Glasgow.
He was thirty years of age, and had
married Helen Carrie, 36 John
Street, Arbroath. Corporal Boyd was
an engineer with Messrs W. D. Grant
& Son. Melbourne, when, in July
1915, he joined the Australian Field
Artillery as a gunner. He was after-
wards promoted corporal. For six
months he was on active service in
Egypt, and thence went to France,
where he was in much heavy fighting.
He was wounded and gassed in June
1917. and on the 23rd of September
he was killed at Dickiebusch, in Bel-
gium, by the bursting of an enemy
shell while he was asleep in his dug-
out. His sergeant wrote: — "I oan
hardly yet realise that dear old George
is gone. He was the life and soul
of the Battery, and all the boys
join with me in sending deepest
sympathy to you in the loss of your
noble son and my heroic friend."

Gunner David D. Ci.yne, Royal
Garrison Artillery, 42 Calder Street,
Crossbill, Glasgow, was the son of
Robert Clyne, The Lighthouse, Crom-
arty (formerly of the Bell Rock Light-
house), and of his wife Isabella David-
son. He was twenty-seven years of
age. and served his apprenticeship
with Messrs J. P. Grewar & Son,
Arbroath, afterwards going to the
Porterfield Works, Renfrew. For
about two years he was in the Ar-
broath Artillery Corps, and became a
gunner in the R.G.A. in April 1916.
He had ten months' service in France.
On the 25th of September 1917 he
was struck by an enemy shell when
manning his gun and in a few hours
succumbed to his wounds, unable
even to send a message home before
he died. He is buried in Menin Road
South Military Cemetery, near Ypres.

PTE. D. STEWART, SEAFORTHS.

Private David Stewart, Seaforth
Highlanders, Milton of Conon, Car-
myllie. who was formerly employed at
West Newbigging Farm, was killed in
action on the 12th of October 1917.

137

LIEUT. G. D. G. STUART, R.F.A.

PTE.

J. SCOTT, A. & S. H.

Lieutenant George Douglas Gor-
don Stuart, twenty-one years of age.
2nd Highland Brigade, Royal Field
Artillery (T.F.), was the son of
Robert Stuart. Inspector of Poor, and
of his wife Janet Steven Reid. 19
Dalhousie Place, Arbroath. Before
the war Lieutenant Stuart took a
keen interest in the Boy Scouts, and
was a scoutmaster in the local body.
He was at the High School when war
was declared and at once joined the
Forfarshire Battery of the R.F.A. as
a bombardier. In November 1914 he
was commissioned 2nd-lieutenant in
the 2nd Highland Brigade, and was
afterwards promoted lieutenant. He
was drafted to France in 1916, was
posted to the Lahore Division of Ar-
tillery, attached to the Canadian
Corps, and was with that Division
during the battles of the Somme.
Vimy Ridge, and Ypres. Lieutenant
Stuart was killed on the 23rd of Sep-
tember 1917 in the village of Pilkem.
on the Pasehendaele Ridge, whilst
bringing under cover one of his men
who had been badly gassed. He w7as
buried in Blenet Farm British Ceme-
tery, Elverdinghe, Belgium. His

Private Alfred James Scott. 8th
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
was the son of Alfred Scott and of
his wife Annie Campbell, 45 West
Abbey Street, Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age and was serv-
ing his apprenticeship as a chemist
with Mr Howat Duncan when he
joined the 8th Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders in December 1916. Pri-
vate Scott was killed in action at
Ypres on the 20th of September 1917.

colonel wrote : — ' ' Like the gallant
lad he was, it was in saving a man
who had been gassed, and in getting
the man under cover that he lost his
own life. If we must go during the
war, we would all ask to go as he did
— saving somebody's life under shell
fire among one's guns with one's own
men all round one." Lieutenant
Stuart had two brothers who gained
the Military Cross. Captain J. 0. G.
Stuart, Black Watch, who was killed
in 1918. and Lieutenant A. R. Stuart,
R.F.A., who was severely wounded.
A third brother was in a volunteer
regiment in Shanghai.

138

PTE. D. R. SIEVWRIGHT, M.G.C.

PTE. HERRON, AUSTRALIANS.

Private David R. Sievwricht,
Machine Gun Corps, was the son of
David R. Sievwright, Bonnington of
Arbirlot. near Arbroath. He was
twenty years of age and, before join-
ing the army, was employed as a shep-
herd by Mr T. Mitchell, Shiel green,
Memus. Kirriemuir. In December
1915 he attested under Lord Derby's
scheme, and six months later he
joined the 5th Black Watch. After
training for some time in camp at
Ripon, Private Sievwright was trans-
ferred to the Machine Gun Corps at
Clipstone Camp, and went to France
in January 1917. He was killed in
action while on duty at Hansbeck
Wood, near Ypres, on the 26th of
September 1917, and was buried by
his comrades near the place where he
fell. His commanding officer wrote:
— "Private Sievwright was fixing his
gun during an intense bombardment
when a piece of shell struck him on
the head, and he died shortly after-
wards without regaining conscious-
ness. He was a most excellent sol-
dier, always attending to his duties
with utter disregard for his personal
safety. He was a universal favourite."

Private Fred N. Herron, 2nd
Pioneer Battalion, Australian Im-
perial Force, was the son of James
N. Herron. blacksmith, 49 East
Abbey Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-nine years of age, and was a
moulder at Dens Iron Works. He
afterwards went to Australia and
had been working in Melbourne for
five years when he joined the Aus-
tralian contingent and came to Eng-
land. Two months later he crossed
to France. After preparing the roads
for the guns going up for an at-
tack, Private Herron was wounded
by an aerial bomb, and died in No.
10 Casualty Clearing Station on the
29th of September 1917.

PTE. ADAM CAR GILL, B.W.

Private Adam Cargill, Black
Watch, was the son of Adam Cargill.
9 Old Shorehead, Arbroath. He was
twenty-two years of age, and was
employed at Netherward Works
when he enlisted in 1914. Private
Cargill had been two years in France
when he was killed in action on the
14th of October 1916.

139

LT. ALISTAIR HENDRY, R.F.A.

GNR. JAMES BOWDEN, R.G.A.

Lieut. Alistair Hendry, Royal
Field Artillery, the Bruce Hotel, Car-
noustie, was the son of William
Hendry, Glasgow, and of his wife
Janet Morrison Anderson. He was
twenty years of age, and was a clerk
with Messrs James Smieton & Sons.
Ltd. Having joined the Territorial
Force he was mobilised in September
1914 as a private in the 4th Black
Watch, and went to France with his
regiment in February 1915. He saw
much active service in the spring and
summer of that year, got his com-
mission in the Royal Field Artillery
in September and later was attached
to the 189th Brigade. On the 27th of
September 1917 he volunteered to go
out and find a company of Argyll and
Sutherlands with whom his battery
had lost touch for forty-eight hours.
He succeeded in his mission, coming
upon them when they had fired their
last round and given up all hope.
Afterwards he and six other infantry
officers took cover in a German dug-
out, where they were all killed by
the bursting of a shell. For this
service Lieutenant Hendry was men-
tioned in despatches.

Gunner James Bowden, Royal
Garrison Artillery, nineteen years of
age, was the son of James Bowden
and of his wife Annie Beattie, 11
Ogilvy Place, Arbroath. He was a
farm servant at Pitcundrum, Arbir-
lot, when he joined the Royal Garri-
son Artillery in September 1916.
After several months' training Gnr.
Bowden went to France in June 1917.
and three months later, on the 29th
of September 1917, he was killed, to-
gether with an officer and eight other
men, by a shell striking the dug-out
in which they had taken shelter.

PTE. BEATTIE, BLACK WATCH.

Private William Beattie, Black
Watch, a native of Arbroath, was
the son of Joseph Beattie, 21 Kin-
cardine Street. Dundee, and the
nephew of Andrew Beattie, 49 West
Abbey Street, Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age, and joined the
Black Watch in 1916. Private Beattie
had been at the front only two
months, and two weeks in the
trenches, when he was gassed and
died on the 30th of September 1917.

140

PTE. J. COWIE, BLACK WATCH.

L-CPL. NORMAN M'lNTOSH, B.W.

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Private James Cowie, Black
Watch, Dundee Eoad, Forfar, was
the eldest son of David Cowie and of
his wife Janet Myles, Muiredge, Car-
myllie. He married Sarah Smith,
and left one son and two daughters.
He was twenty-eight years of age,
and was an insurance agent in the
Forfar branch of the Prudential
Assurance Company. He joined the
Black Watch in September 1915 and
when in France served as stretcher-
bearer in his company. Private
Cowie was killed in action at Ypres
on the 28th of September 1917. His
captain wrote: "The eight stretcher-
bearers of the company were all shel-
tering from an enemy bombardment
in a concrete shelter known as a
" pill-box " when it was smashed by
a direct hit by a heavy shell. Five
men, of whom Private Cowie was one,
were killed instantaneously. All five
were buried together and the stones
of the "pill-box" built into a cairn
by their comrades. A cross was

erected on the spot within view of the
historic city of Ypres. Private Cowie
was a cheery companion in days of
rest and a loyal comrade in action."

Lance-Corporal Norman M'In-
tosh, 9th Black Watch, was ths son
of Alexander M'Intosh, and of his
wife Elizabeth Grindlay, 32 St Mary
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
three years of age, and was a farm
servant at Finniston, Letham, when
he joined the 5th Black Watch as a
private in May 1915. Lance-Corporal
Al'lntosh went to France early in
1916, was wounded at the battle of
the Somme in September, and was
invalided home. On his return to
France he was transferred to the
9th Black Watch as a machine
gunner. He died of the effects of gas
poisoning on the Arras front on the
30th of September 1917, and was
buried in the British Level Crossing
Cemetery, four miles east of Arras.

PTE. TASKER, BLACK WATCH.

Private Robert Tasker, Black
Watch, twenty- three years of age,
was the son of David Tasker, Fir-
hills, near Arbroath. He was a farm
servant, and joined the army in 1916.
Private Tasker died of wounds on
the 26th of September 1917.

141

BOMB. J. E. CHRISTIE, R.F.A. PTE. JOH N CROWE, SEAFORTHS.

Bombardier John Esplix Chris-
tie, Royal Field Artillery, twenty-
three years of age, was the son of
James Christie and of his wife Mary
Esplin, 24 St Mary Street, Arbroath.
He was an engine-fitter at Dens Iron
Works before joining the army in Sep-
tember 1914 as a driver in the R.F.A.
He went to France as bombardier
instructor of signalling, and served
there for two and a half years. At
Cambrai, on the night of the 10th of
October 1917, he was sleeping in a
small dug-out near the battery posi-
tion when a shell burst at the door,
killing him and several others instan-
taneously. He was buried in a mili-
tary cemetery behind the lines. Major
Fraser wrote of him: — "I had come
much into contact with your son in
the course of his duties as signaller,
and had a very high opinion of him.
He was a most promising young sol-
dier and would soon have gained fur-
ther promotion. Many a time I have
relied on him to do a difficult bit of
work, and he always succeeded."
The chaplain wrote: — " A good and
brave soldier, efficient at his work,
and always ready to do his duty."

Private John Christie Crowe,
Seaforth Highlanders, thirty-eight
years of age, was the son of David
Crowe, Marketgate, Arbroath. He
married Agnes Adam Findlay, and
left a son and a daughter. He was a
lorryman with Messrs Wordie & Co.,
railway contractors, when he joined
the Seaforths in October 1916,
and was sent to Nigg Camp for three
months' training. He then went to
Fiance, and had been only a fort-
night in the firing line when he was
wounded with shrapnel at the battle
of Arras on the 24th of March 1917.
After being in Stobhill Hospital,
Glasgow, for seven months, he died
on the 7th of October 1917. He was
buried in the Eastern Cemetery, Ar-
broath, with full military honours."

PTE. CARGILL, BLACK WATCH.

Private John Cargill, Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
son of John Cargill, 5 South Street,
Arbroath. He was reported missing
on the 14th of October 1916, and
afterwards presumed to have been
killed in action on that date.

142

GUNNER WM. SPINK, R.F.A.

CPL.-FAR. M'GLASHAN, R.F.A.

Gunner William Spink, Rojal
Field Artillery (T.F.), fifty-one years
of age, was the son of William Spink,
fisherman, Ladybridge House, Ar-
broath. He was a shore porter when
he enlisted in September 1914. He
served in France for two and a half
years. On the 4th of October 1917 he
and other soldiers were resting and
smoking when a shell suddenly fell in
their midst, and Gunner Spink was
killed. His officer, writing of him,
said: — " Gunner Spink was a great
favourite in the battery and has been
greatly missed. He was one of the
original men in the battery, and was
an example to all the newer men, as
he was a most willing worker, and
never had a complaint to make. 1
knew him well, and always admired
him for his courage in sticking to a
job which must have been a hard
one for a man of his age."

PTE. J. PHMPS. CANADIANS.

Private James D. Philips, Cana-
dians, aged twenty-two, grandson of
J Japp, Kinloch Street, Carnoustie,
was killed on the 9th of August 1918.

Cpl. -Farrier Donald M'Glashan,
Royal Field Artillery, 23 Lndyloan,
Arbroath, was a master blacksmith
in Dickfield Street before joining the
colours. He was a Freemason, being
a member of St Thomas Lodge, and
was also a member of the Men's Own
Brotherhood. He was forty years
of age, and in January 1915 he
joined the army as a farrier in the
Forfarshire Battery, R.F.A., 2nd
Highland Brigade. Four months
later Corporal-Farrier M'Glashan
went across to France, and was at
the front until the 12th of October
1917, when he was killed by a shell.

L/SGT. W. RAE. BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Sergeant William Rae,
Black Watch , thirty years of age, was
the son of William Rae, 12 Church
Street, Arbroath. He was at one
time a bleacher at Waulkmills, but
had gone to the United States. When
war broke out, however, he at once
returned to Scotland, and enlisted.
When on active service he was re-
ported missing, and in August 1917
was officially posted as killed.

143

SGT. A. ECCLES, AUSTRALIANS.

PTE. ALEX. DONALDSON, R.S.

Sergeant Albert Edward Eccles,
Machine Gun Corps, Australian Im-
perial Force, twenty-six years of age.
was a son of Mr and Mrs Eccles,
Broughty Ferry. Before going to
Australia he lived with his aunt, Mrs
Will, 13 Victoria Street, Arbroath,
and was a brother of Agnes Eccles,
Dunellan, Strachan Street. He was
in the Australian Merchant Service
before enlisting in November 1914.
He landed with the first Aus-
tralian contingent at Gallipoli, where
he was severely wounded. After
undergoing treatment in Cairo he
was invalided to Australia, and was
offered bis discharge, which he re-
fused. On recovery he returned over-
seas, was promoted sergeant, and
acted as machine gun instructor at
Grantham. He went to France in
March 1917, and was killed in action
at Zonnebeke on the 5th of October.
His captain wrote: — "In losing Ser-
geant Eccles the company lost at
that time its best n.c.o., a fine soldier
and a man. Had he lived I should
have recommended him for a decora-
tion, and for promotion to company
sergeant-major. ' '

Private Alexander Donaldson,
11th Boyal Scots, was the son of
George Donaldson, joiner, 44 St
Vigeans Boad, Arbroath. He was
thirty-three years of age, and had
been a gardener at Ashbrook, but
when he enlisted he was foreman
gardener with Mr C. A. Hamilton,
Duntocher. Private Donaldson joined
the 3rd Boyal Scots at Hamilton in
March 1916, but was afterwards
transferred to the 11th Battalion.
He was wounded by shrapnel and had
just been a month out of hospital
when he was killed in action in
France on the 12th of October 1917.
Private Donaldson had two brothers
with the army, one of whom was
killed in October 1915.

PTE. THOS. SKEA, SEAFOBTHS.

Private Thomas Skea, Seaforth
Highlanders, 71 Ladyloan, Arbroath,
was thirty-three years of age. When
war broke out he was employed as a
carter, but as he had been in the
army he at once rejoined the colours.
He was killed in action on the 12th
of October 1917.

144

PTE. DAVID OGILVIE, A. & S. H.

BOMB. JAMES SKEA, R.F.A.

Private David Ogilvie, 14th
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
twenty-four years of age, was the son
of Alexander Ogilvie, 14 Taymouth
Terrace, Carnoustie. He was a
police constable in Perth when he
joined the army in July 1915. He
was wounded in June 1916, and was
killed during the advance at Paschen-
daele on the 12th of October 1917.
The quartermaster-sergeant wrote : —
" He was very popular with both
officers and men, who held him in
high esteem, as he was such a cheer-
ful and willing lad, never grudging to
do his duty, no matter how danger-
ous." Pte. Ogilvie had two brothers
serving, John in the Australians, and
Ormiston in the Reserve Cavalry.

SGT. J. GRAY, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant John D. Gray, Black
Watch, son of A. Gray, Dundee
Street, Carnoustie, was in the Tay-
mouth Engineering Works. He was
mobilised as a Territorial, and in
November 1914 went to France,
where he saw much service before
he was killed in action.

Bombardier James Skea, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-four years of
age, was the son of James Skea, 21
Hannah Street, Arbroath. He was
a plasterer with Mr A. Donald,
Lindsay Street, and enlisted in
October 1914 as a driver in the
R.F.A. He served in France for
two and a half years, and died of
wounds on the 20th of October 1917
at Doringhem, near Poperinghe.

GNR. ROBERT PRYDE, R.G.A.

Gunner Robert Pryde, Royal
Garrison Artillery, Monifieth, thirty-
seven years of age, was the son of
Robert Pryde, Woodhills, Carmyllie.
He had married Annie Black, and
was a waiter in Dundee when he
enlisted. He was killed in action in
France on the 24th of July 1917.

PTE. A. M'KENDRICK, B.W.

Private Andrew M'Kendrick,
Black Watch, was a gardener with
Miss Lowson, Balgavies, near
Guthrie. He had only been six

days in France when he was killed
in action.

145

A.B. ROBERT KEILLOR, R.N.

PTE. REDFORD, LONDON SCOT.

Able Seaman Robert Kydd Milne
Keillor, Royal Navy, 12 Brechin
Road, Arbroath, was the son of
Thomas Keillor and of his wife M.
Ainsworth, Stuart Street, Arbroath.
He was forty years of age, and had
married Grace Muir Janes. When
war broke out he was employed as
under-overseer at Stanley Works, and
was a bugler in the Angus Rifles. In
1896 he joined the navy as a " boy,"
and had served for twenty-one years.
On the 16th of October 1917, while on
H. M.S. Attentive III. he was drowned
at Dunkirk Docks when returning to
his ship during an air raid. In the
darkness he slipped over the edge of
the dock, and although a powerful
swimmer, it is supposed he had been
stunned by the fall and unable to
recover himself. Seaman Keillor's
body was recovered some days later,
and was interred in the British ceme-
tery near Dunkirk. The commodore
at Dunkirk wrote: — -"He gave his
life for his country just the same as
if he had lost his life in action. He
had been a good bit under fire, and
like all his countrymen, proved that
he was a man in every respect."

Private Alexander Redford, 1st
London Scottish, twenty-nine years of
age, was the son of John Redford, 32
Fergus Square, Arbroath. He was a
hairdresser in Glasgow when hejoined
the H.L.I, in November 1915. He
was afterwards transferred, and was
wounded in France in September
1916. He was again wounded on the
19th of October 1917, and died the
following day at No.3 Casualty Clear-
ing Station. He was buried in Gre-
villers British Cemetery, Bapaume.
The chaplain wrote: — "All ranks
mourn a good comrade and a capable
experienced soldier. We shall miss
his strong and attractive presence ;
he was of such a cheery disposition
and a bright light in his platoon."

PTE. W. BLACK, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private William Corsar Black,
Royal Scots, nineteen years of age,
Kinnell, near Arbroath, was a
ploughman at Oathlaw when he en-
listed in 1914. He was wounded in
the summer of 1917, and died on
the 8th of November in the 18th
General Hospital, Calais.

146

PTE. J. LESLIE, ROYAL SCOTS.

L-CPL. HUNTER, AUSTRALIANS.

Private James Leslie, Royal
Scots, twenty-four years of age, was
the son of Thomas Russell Leslie and
of his wife Jane Hunter, Kirkstile,
St Vigeans. He was a ploughman at
Mains of Letham when he enlisted
in January 1916. He was wounded
at Arras in April 1917, and had re-
joined his regiment but a few weeks
when he was killed at Paschendaele
on the 22nd of October 1917.

PTE. J. TODD, SOUTH AFRICANS.

Private John Todd, Royal Garri-
son Artillery, Natal contingent, forty
years of age, was the son of Mrs Todd,
45 Hill Street, Arbroath. He enlisted
in 1914, and saw a year' s fighting in
West Africa, afterwards going to
France, where he was killed in 1917.

PTE. J. WILKIE, BLACK WATCH.

Private John Wilkie, 5th Black
Watch, twenty-eight years of age,
was a grandson of James Wilkie, Mill-
field Feus, near Arbroath. When he
joined the army in 1916 he was a
ploughman at Mains of Kelly. He was
killed on the 3rd of September 1917.

Lance-Corporal James Hunter,
2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial
Force, Sydney, was the eldest son of
Joseph Hunter and of his wife Helen
Walker, 47 Young Street, Annandale,
Australia (formerly of Arbroath), and
grandson of James Hunter, 6 Hume
Street, Arbroath. He was thirty-five
years of age, and left a son and a
daughter. He was a telegraph lines-
man in Sydney when he joined the
Imperial Force in 1915. He served
in France, and was killed in action
on the 27th of October 1917.

2nd-LT. WALTER STEELE, H.L.I.

Second-Lieutenant Walter F. B.
Steele, Highland Light Infantry, was
the son of Capt. J. W. Steele, Glas-
gow, and grandson of Robert Steele,
at one time chief officer of the Coast-
guards in Carnoustie. Lieutenant
Steele was well-known in the Car-
noustie district. He joined the H.L.I,
in November 1914, and received his
commission the same year. He had
only been in France eleven months
when he was killed by a shell, on
the 20th of October 1917.

147

SERGT. JOHN BOWIE. R.F.A. PTE. FRED ANDERSON, B.W.

Sergeant John Bowie, Royal Field
Artillery, twenty-two years of age,
wa.s the eldest son of William Bowie
and of his wife Helen Spence, 15
Carnegie Street, Arbroath, formerly
of Letham Mill. He was for a time
an engineer with Messrs James Law
&. Sons, Arbroath, and was with
Messrs M'Kie& Baxter, Govan, when
he joined the army in August 1914
as a gunner in the R.F.A. He was
sent to Norwich for training, and
was made a bombardier. In July
1915 he went to Port Said, then to
Suvla Bay, where he remained till
the evacuation of Gallipoli. Sergeant
Bowie was six months in Egpyt be-
fore going to France, where he was
promoted to the rank of sergeant,
and served until the 28th of October
1917, when he was killed at his guns
on the Ypres front. He was buried
in Dickebusch Military Cemetery.
His major wrote that he was a splen-
did n.c.O1. and man generally. In
spite of awful weather and heavy
shelling, from the time he arrived
the telephones were always through,
which resulted in important news
getting back.

Private Frederick Anderson, 5th
Black Watch, twenty-one years of
age, was the son of David Anderson,
and of his wife Elizabeth Baxter, 70
Howard Street, Arbroath. He was a
farm servant at Auchterforfar when
he enlisted in January 1915 in the
5th Black Watch. Private Anderson
went to France at the end of the
year, and saw a good deal of fight-
ing, having been wounded in Septem-
ber 1913, and again in an engage-
ment in August 1917. He was
killed in action in France on the
29th of October 1917.

PTE. ALEXANDER GLEN, B.W.

Private Alexander Glen, Black
Watch, St Vigeans, near Arbroath,
was the son of Alex. Glen, Tayock
Cottage, Montrose. He was thirty-
eight years of age, had married Mar-
garet Turner, and left five sons and
a daughter. He was beadle in St
Vigeans Parish Church, and was in
the employment of the parish
minister when he joined the army in
August 1916. Private Glen was killed
in France on the 13th of May 1917.

148

PTE. F. LESLIE, CANADIANS.

S.M. M'NAUGHTON, CANADIANS.

Private Frank Leslie, 85th Nova
Scotia Highlanders, was the son of
James C. Leslie and of his wife Isa-
bella Buiek, 24 Newton Avenue,
Lynn, Mass., formerly of Colvill Cot-
tages, Dishland Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty-four years of age and was
unmarried. Private Leslie, who was
a former pupil of the Arbroath High
School, was employed as a machinist
at the General Electric Co., Lynn,
Mass. A younger brother, Lieuten-
ant G. B. Leslie, crossed from U.S.A.
to Canada and enlisted in September
1915, both brothers being at first in
the same battalion, the 73rd Royal
Highlanders of Canada. Private
Leslie was in several engagements,
at Ypres, at the Somme, and at Vimy
Ridge, where the 73rd suffered so
heavily that it was linked up with
other units. He was transferred
to the 85th Nova Scotia Highlanders
and was attached to the 12th Cana-
dian Infantry Brigade Headquarters
as a runner. He was killed in

action on the 31st of October 1917
at Paschendaele Ridge. He " per-
formed his duties fearlessly and
well, as became a soldier."

Sergeant-Major Harold Victor
M'Natjghton, 13th Canadian Scot-
tish, St Thomas, Ontario, was the
son of William M'Naughton, for-
merly of Arbroath, and of his wife
Jane L. Cruden, Highgate, London.
He was thirty years of age and had
married Gladys Graves, Ontario.
He was on the clerical staff of the
Pere Marquette Railway when he en-
listed on the first day of recruiting.
He came to England in June 1916 as
a company sergeant-major, and later
went to Prance. He was in the Ypres
area, when, in trying to get his men
under cover, he was struck by a shell
and killed. His company major
wrote: — "Everybody liked 'Mac,' as
we all called him, and I always felt
proud to be in command of such a
good soldier." Sgt.-Major M'Naugh-
ton had two brothers in the army.

PTE. WILLIAM LOW, A. & S. H.

Private William Low, Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, eighteen
years of age, belonged to East
Skiechen, Carmyllie. He was killed
in France in 1917.

149

PTE. SYMON, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. FINDLAY, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Symon, 14th
Black Watch, Fife and Forfar Yeo-
manry, nineteen years of age, was
the son of James Symon, 7 Abbot
Street, Arbroath. He was serving
his apprenticeship as a printer in the
' ' Arbroath Guide ' ' Office when he
joined the 14th Black Watch in
October 1916. He was sent to Nigg
Camp, and after five months' train-
ing he went to Egypt and Palestine.
Private Symon took part in the first
battle of Gaza in March 1917 and was
in other engagements. An Arbroath
comrade was with him when he went
over the top at the second battle of
Gaza. He was killed during the
course of the battle at Tel el Sheria,
near Beersheba, on the 6th of Novem-
ber 1917. His captain, Sir W. A. A.
Campbell, Bart., wrote: — "Your boy
was in my company since he joined
the battalion. During the operations
he stuck the hard work and long
marches like a hero; he found, I
know, his pack and equipments a sore
trial, but he never made a complaint,
and set a fine example to those
stronger and bigger than himself. He
died doing his duty like a brave boy."

Private Alfred Ftndlay, 5th
Black Watch, 14 Maule Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Mrs Findlay.
14 Walker Road, Newcastle. Before
the war he was employed as a fitter
and turner with Messrs Douglas
Fraser& Sons. Having been for two
years a member of the Territorial
Force he was mobilised in August
1914. After training he went to
France, where he was twice wounded
at La Bassee and at the battle of the
Somme. In March 1917 he wTas dis-
charged through illness as the result
of wounds and he died in Newcastle
on the 2nd of November in that year.

SGT. A. SMART, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant Alexander Smart, 8th
Black Watch, son of Alexander
Smart, cattleman, Balgavies, was a
gardener at Glamis Castle. He
joined the Angus and Mearns Rifles
in 1905, volunteered for foreign ser-
vice, and was called up in September
1914. He was transferred, and when
serving in France, was reported
missing on the 3rd of May 1917, and
later certified as killed on that date.

150

CPL. OVENSTONE. F. & F. YEO.

PTE. GEO. SCOTT, CANADIANS.

Corporal Peter M. Ovenstone,
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, was the
youngest son of Philip Ovenstone and
of his wife Julia Meldrum, 13 Cairnie
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
two years of age and unmarried. He
was a plasterer and cement worker
before he joined the army in August
1914 as a trooper in the Fife and
Forfar Yeomanry. He served in the
coast defences in Norfolk and Lincoln-
shire till August 1915 when he sailed
for Gallipoli and landed at Suvla Bay
Three months later he was invalided
home suffering from enteric fever. In
August 1916 he rejoined his regiment
in Egypt and there got his first pro-
motion. Shortly before his death he
had passed with distinction his ex-
aminations for senior rank. At the
battle of Sheria, in an attack on a
very strong Turkish position north cf
Beersheba Corporal Ovenstone' s com-
pany went up against four enemy
machine guns, which they captured,
and it was in that attack that he
was killed on the 6th of November
1917. Ths regiment took two lines
of trenches that day, and broke the
centre of the Turkish line.

Private George Scott, 1st Cana-
dians, Brantford, Canada, thirty-two
years of age, was the son of James
Scott, Bonhard, Arbirlot, near Ar-
broath. He had been in Canada for
six years and was in the employment
of a contractor when he joined up in
1915 and came to England. He was
drafted to France, and was killed in
aotion on the 6th of November 1917.

L-CPL. ALEX. BOBERTSON, B.W.

Lance-Ctl. Alexander Robert-
son, 2nd Black Watch, son of
Alex. Robertson, Garnet Terrace,
Carnoustie, was in the service of the
National Telephone Company. He
was at first in the R.G.A., but was
transferred. He was killed in action
in the Persian Gulf.

PTE. A. KENNEDY, CANADIANS.

Private Andrew Kennedy, Cana-
dians, was the son of Mrs Kennedy,
Ethiehaven, near Arbroath. He was
twenty-three years of age, and was
a ploughman in the Forfar district
before going to Canada. He was
killed in action in 1917.

151

PTE. GEDDES, BLACK WATCH. CPL. A. BENNET, CANADIANS.

Private Charles Raitt Geddes,
5th Black Watch, twenty-one years
of age, was the eldest son of David
Geddes and of his wife Margaret
Raitt, Woodside, Colliston. He was
employed as a ploughman at Park-
conon when he joined the 5th Black
Watch in July 1915. After serving
for nine months in France, Private
Geddes was invalided home, and was
in hospital for three months. In
February 1917 he was drafted to
Egypt, and afterwards to Palestine,
where he was killed in action on the
6th of November 1917. Private
Geddes was buried in the Military
Cemetery at Wadi Samarra. He was
a steady lad of blithe and kindly dis-
position and was a general favourite,
and, his commanding officer said, he
was a fine and reliable soldier. His
sergeant wrote : — ' ' We have many
happy recollections of Charlie. We
often talk of him, he was such a
good lad, and to all the boys in the
platoon he was always 'Happy Char-
lie,' and a comrade and friend to
them all. For myself I always found
him the same, ever ready to do
whatever duty he was asked."

Corporal Andrew W. Bennet,
81st Canadians, was the son of A. D.
Bennet, Little Cairnie, Arbroath,
formerly of St Vigeans. He married
Charlotte Lamond and left a son and
a daughter. He was at one time em-
ployed as a ploughman near Arbroath
but had been in Canada for some
years when he joined the 81st Cana-
dian Infantry in 1915. Corporal
Bennet went to France the follow-
ing year, and was killed in action
at Paschendaele Ridge on the 12th
of November 1917.

SUB-LIEUT. A. M'LEOD, R.N.R,

Sub-Lieutenant Arthur M'Leod,
Royal Naval Reserve, twenty-five
years of age, was the son of John
M'Leod, 13 Glebe Street, Dundee,
formerly of Arbroath. He served his
apprenticeship as an engineer at Dens
Iron Works, and after being in
Greenock and Leith he was four years
at sea as an engineer in the mercan-
. tile marine. Li 1916 he joined the
R.N.R. as a sub-lieutenant, and was
lost by the torpedoing of H.M.S.
Champagne on the 9th October 1917.

152

L-CPL. J. GRAY. BLACK WATCH.

PTE. D. MILNE, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal John B. Gray,
5th Black Watch, was the son of
Alexander B. Gray and of his wife
Bella Thomson, 74 Cairnie Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-five years of
age, and was a moulder with John
Brown, Ltd., Clydebank, when he en-
listed in September 1914 as a trooper
in the 1st Scottish Horse. He sailed
for the Dardanelles in August and
went through the Gallipoli campaign,
but was invalided home suffering
from enteric fever. After his re-
covery he went to France, and was
attached to the 5th Black Watch
with the rank of lance-corporal. At
Paschendaele Ridge on the 15th of
November 1917 Lance-Corporal Gray
was killed by a German sniper, and
died instantaneouslv. He had been
doing excellent work in the line, and
the night before he was killed he led
a ration party under exceedingly diffi-
cult conditions. One of his officers
said: — "Lance-Corporal Gray was
very efficient in his work, and we all
liked him for himself, quite apart
from his good qualities as an n.c.o.
He had latterly returned from a course
at which he got a very good report."

Private Duncan Milne, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of Alexander
Milne, 12 Bakers Wynd, Arbroath.
He was twenty-three years of age,
and was a machineman at Stanley
Works when he enlisted in August
1914. He went to France shortly
afterwards and passed through three
years of fighting without a wound.
On the 15th of November 1917 he was
posted missing, and was presumed
to have been killed on that date.

PTE. WM. ROBERTSON, R.S.

Private William Robertson, 13th
Royal Scots, twenty-one years of
age, was the youngest son of James
Robertson, 47 West Abbey Street,
Arbroath. On the 28th of March
1918 he was reported missing, and
was presumed killed on that date.

CPL. JAMES MACLENNAN, B.W.

Corporal James MacLennan,
Black Watch, twenty-seven years of
age, was the son of J. MacLennan,
Montrose Street, Brechin, formerly of
Arbroath. He enlisted in 1915, and
was killed on the 14th of July 1916.

153

LIEUT. N. GIBSON, GORDONS.

PTE. A. VALENTINE. CAMERONS.

Lieutenant Norman James Gib-
son, 4th Gordon Highlanders, 348
Great Western Road, Aberdeen, was
the son of William Gibson, at one
time Caledonian Railway Goods
Agent, Strachan Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-four years of age and
before the war was in the office of
his brother, Mr D. O. Gibson, stock-
broker. Aberdeen. In August 1914
he joined the Arbroath High School
section of the 5th Black Watch as a
private, and went to France with the
first Territorial battalion to leave
Scotland. After about a year in
France he obtained a commission in
the 4th Gordon Highlanders. On the
21st of November 1917 the battalion
was detailed to storm the village of
Cantaing, strongly held by the Ger-
mans, which it did with magnificent
dash, driving the enemy completely
out of the place, and taking nearly
300 prisoners. In the hour of victory
Lieutenant Gibson fell at the head of
his men. The capture of this village
will for ever be a glorious one in the
annals of the battalion. Lieut. Gibson
was a very gallant officer and a great
inspiration to the men under him.

Private Alexander D. Valentine,
6th Cameron Highlanders, nineteen
years of age, was the son of Eliza-
beth Valentine, Meg Taylor's Land,
Inverkeilor, near Arbroath. He was
at the Arbroath High School when
he was called up in March 1917. He
served overseas, and died of wounds
in France at No. 19 Casualty Clear-
ing Station on the 19th of November
of the same year. The Sister who
nursed him wrote: — ''What a splen-
did son you have lost — he lived so
bravely and died so splendidly."

L-CPL. JOHN DUNCAN, H.L.I.

Lance-Corporal John Duncan, 1st
Highland Light Infantry, twenty-two
years of age, was a grandson of John
Duncan, Muirmill Crossing, Farnell.
He was a fireman when he joined the
5th Dragoon Guards in September
1914. After a year in France he was
drafted to Mesopotamia. He was
wounded and taken prisoner on the
Persian Gulf in April 1917, and after
having been for five months in the
bands of the Turks he died in Angora
on the 10th of September 1917.

154

PTE. J. GRAY, BLACK WATCH.

GNR. ALEX. LAIRD, R.G.A.

Private John Young Gray, 3rd
Black Watch, 8 Stanley Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of William Gray
and of his wife Joan Stephen, 44
Leonard Street. He was thirty-one
years of age and had married Mary
Anderson, and left one son. Private
Gray was a clicker with Samuel Fair-
weather & Sons at Abbey Leather
Works when he joined the 3rd Black
Watch in November 1916. He went
to France early in 1917, and served
until the 22nd of November, when
he was wounded, and died two days
later. Private Gray was buried in
Roequigny Road British Cemetery,
not far from Peronne.

SGT. J. ELDER, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant John Elder, Black
Watch, was the son of James Elder,
Millar Street, Carnoustie. He was
twenty years of age, and was at one
time employed in Messrs Winter's
boot and shoe factory. Sergeant

Elder was one of the original Car-
noustie Territorials. He was woun-
ded on the 26th of September 1917,
and presumed killed on that date.

Gunner Alexander Laird, Royal
Garrison Artillery, 10 Union Street,
Broughty Ferry, was the son of Alex-
ander Laird, Muirhills, Carmyllie.
He was twenty-six years of age, and
had married Catherine Ireland. He
was employed as a ploughman at
Shank, Kingennie, when he joined the
R.G.A. in June 1916. He went to
France in December of that year and
died of pneumonia, the result of gas
poisoning, on the 25th of November
1917, at Levenholme Hospital, Man-
chester. He was buried in Barnhill
Cemetery, Broughty Ferry. Private
Laird had two brothers killed.

PTE. GEORGE HASTINGS, S.R.

Private George Hastings, Sco1>-
tish Rifles (attached Royal En-
gineers), was the son of George Hast-
ings, 23 St Mary Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-two years of age, had
married Jane Green, and left one
daughter. He was employed at the
Eadie Tube Works, Rutherglen, when
he joined the army in March 1917.
He was killed in action in Palestine
on the 2nd of November 1917.

155

SGT. DAVID KITTO, R.A.M.C. CPL. A. NICOL, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant David Alexander Kitto,
Royal Army Medical Corps, 3 Fergus
Square Arbroath, was the son of
Thomas Kitto and of his wife Mar-
garet Hosie, Coral Cottage, Car-
noustie. He was thirty-two years of
age, and had married Isabella Scott
Mac-lure. Before joining the army he
was a teacher of science at HarthiM
School, Lanarkshire. In June 191")
he became a private in the Royal
Army Medical Corps, and after train-
ing for some months at the Alexandra
Military Hospital, Cosham, and Cam-
bridge Hospital Aldershot, he was
promoted sergeant and sailed on the
hospital ship Britannic from Decem-
ber of that year until March 1916. He
went to France in May, attached to
the 37th Field Ambulance, and was
killed in action by a shell on the 30th
of November 1917. His lieutenant-
colonel wrote : — "His good work and
gallantry during the action were
brought to my notice by the officer
commanding the stretcher-bearers."
Sergeant Kitto' s brother, Sergeant
George Kitto, science master in the
Harris Academy, Dundee, served in
the Royal Flying Corps.

Corporal Alfred J. Nicol, 5th

Black Watch, was the son of Alex-
ander Nicol and of his wife Annie
Wilson, 43 Gardyne Street, Friock-
heim. Be was twenty-four years of
age, and was employed by Mr C. Y.
Myles, Arbroath. Having joined the
Territorials in 1912 he was mobilised
on the 4th of August 1914, and
was drafted to France in November.
He was twice wounded, first at
the battle of Neuve Chapelle, on the
10th of March 1915, and again on
the 9th of May. He then went
scathless through two and a half
years' service, until the 24th of
November 1917, when he was so
severely wounded at Paschendaele.
Belgium, that he died the folowing
day. He was buried at Menin Road,
South Military Cemetery, Ypres.

GUNNER W. SIMPSON, B.F.A.

Gunner W. Simpson, Royal Field
Artillery, twenty-eight years of age,
was a native of Arbroath. Before he
enlisted he was a farm servant at
Old Downie, near Carnoustie. Gnr.
Simpson was killed in action in 1916.

156

PTE. JAMES K. LAIRD, H.L.

CH. OFF. HOOD, MERC. MARINE.

Private James K. Laird, High-
land Light Infantry, twenty-two
years of age, was the second son of
Alexander Laird, Muirheads, Car-
myllie. Before joining the colours
in June 1916, he was a ploughman
at Tearing Home Farm. He went
to France in October 1916, and was
killed in action on the 29th of No-
vember 1917. Private Laird's two
brothers died in the war.

L-CPL. W. ADDISON, R.S.F.

Lance-Corporal William Addi-
son, Eoyal Scots Fusiliers, twenty-
nine years of age, was the son of
William Addison, baker, 54 Keptie
Street, Arbroath. He was a grocer,
and enlisted shortly after the out-
break of war. He was killed in action
on the oth of August 1917. One of
his officers said of him that "he died
doing his duty, setting a fine ex-
ample of courage to the men he com-
manded." Lance-Corpora 1 Addison
had three brothers with the forces,
one, Sergeant Alexander Addison, of
the Gordons, having been awarded
the Military Medal.

Chief Officer George W. Hood,
Mercantile Marine, 14 Merryland
Street Govan, was the son of James
Hood, Haxdresser, and of his wife
Helen Christie, Bank Street, Ar-
broath. He was forty-three years
of age, and married Jemima S. Shaw.
He went to sea in 1890, and after
having served his apprenticeship in
a sailing vessel and passed all his ex-
aminations he sailed as chief officer
in a steamship line. Chief Officer
Hood was on Admiralty service dur-
ing the war, and for three years
he had many encounters with sub-
marines, having been chased twice in
one day in the Mediterranean, and
he gained a reward for being the first
to sight the U-boat. The following
voyage, on the s.s. Livonia, of Lon-
don, on the way out to Spain, the
vessel was torpedoed, but was able
to put into Brest for repairs, and the
voyage was continued. But the gal-
lant ship and most of her crew were
fated never to reach home. While on
her way to the T^ne she was tor-
pedoed off Falmouth on the 3rd of
Deceimber 1917, and Chief Officer
Hond went down with his ship.

157

CAPT. HUNTER, LONDON SCOT.

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Captain Hope Hunter, 14th Lon-
don Regiment (London Scottish),
Rosebrae, Arbroath, was the fourth
son of George Neisli Hunter and of
his wife Isabella Cloudesley, Bon-
nington, Arhirlot. He was forty-two
years of age, unmarried, and when
war was declared was inspecting en-
gineer for the London Hydraulic-
Power Co. Captain Hunter had
served in the London Scottish from
1898, and was awarded the Territorial
Long Service Medal in 1910. He was
for many years one of the best shots
in his regiment, and gained many
shooting distinctions at Bisley and
elsewhere. He had been through the
South African campaign as a mem-
ber of the Volunteer Coy., 2nd Gor-
don Highlanders, and received the
Queen's South African Medal with
four clasps. In August 1914, al-
though he had resigned as a Terri-
torial, he at once gave up his civil
post and enlisted. He refused a
commission, and for a time was
armourer-sergeant and musketry-in-
structor. Later he got a commission
and served in France, Macedonia,
Egypt, and Palestine. He broke

Private Alexander F. Paterson,
Army Ordnance Corps, formerly of
.37 Lordburn, Arbroath, was the son
of David Paterson, Luthermuir. He
was thirty-three years of age, and
had married Emily Scott Milne. He
had gone to India, and was a tailor's
cutter in Mandalay. He enlisted in
February 1917, and died of dysen-
tery in Mesopotamia.

down through overwork at Enab,
near Jerusalem, and was taken to
No. 24 Stationary Hospital, El Kan-
tara, where he died on arrival, on the
3rd of December 1917. His command-
ing officer, writing of him, said: —
"He died in soldier's harness, lie was
supervising and controlling the Bri-
gade water supply — a very arduous
task while marching through water-
less tracts. He never failed us, but
the strain was great and he stuck to
his post too long." The adjutant
wrote: — "He died as the result of
extraordinary devotion to duty ; he
never spared himself, but worked
himself to death." Captain Hunter's
brother, William, also served.

158

PTE. MACGREGOR. SEAFORTHS.

A.B. THOMAS STRACHAN, R.N.

Private Ben Macgeegob, 7th Sea-
forth Highlanders, 13 Hamilton
Green, Arbroath, was the son of Tom
Maegregor, superintendent of the Ar-
broath Eastern Cemetery, and of his
wife Mary Nicol, Brechin Road. He
was twenty-three years of age, and
had married a daughter of John Mit-
chell Greenock, and left one daugh-
ter. He was a hairdresser at Hamil-
ton Green when he enlisted in Decem-
ber 1916 in the Gordons. He was
afterwards transferred, and went to
France in April 1917. On the 30th of
December of that year he was killed
in action near Ypr.es and buried near
the place where he fell. His officer
wrote: "His death is deeply regret-
ted, as he was remarkably well liked
throughout the company; his cheery
presence was of great help to us."

PTE. ALEX. KINLOCH, H.L.I.

Private Alexander Kinloch,
Highland Light Infantry, nineteen
years of age, was the son of George
Kinloch, Monifieth, formerly of Ar-
broath. He was killed in France on
the 2nd of December 1917.

Able-Seaman Thomas Dall Stra-
chan, Royal Naval Division, nineteen
years of age, was the son of Thomas
Dall Strachan, 56a High Street, Ar-
broath. He was serving his appren-
ticeship as a moulder at Dens Iron
Works when he was called up on
attaining his eighteenth birthday, in
October 1916. He became a private
in the Highland Cyclist Battalion at
Cupar-Fife, and, after serving three
months, was transferred to the
R.N.D. He went to France in June
1917, and was with the Drake Bat-
talion, 189th Brigade, until the 30th
of December 1917. On that day he
was in the trenches at Cambria when
a shell exploded and killed him. He
was buried at Villers-Plouch.

PTE. ALEX. MTDDLETON, N.Z.

Private Alexander Middleton,
Nelson Company, New Zealand Ex-
peditionary Force, was the son of
John Middleton, Gardyne Street,
Friockheim. He left a lucrative
position to fight for his country, and
he was killed in action in France on
the 3rd of December 1917.

159

PTE. PATERSON, BLACK WATCH.

L-CPL. JAMES BOYLE, H.L.I.

Private James Cbaig Paterson,
14th Black Watch, was the son of
Daniel Paterson and of his wife Agnes
Warnock, Letham Mains, Arbroath.
He was thirty-four years of age and
had married Annie Kydd Mitchell,
and left four daughters, who after his
death removed to 50 Fergus Square.
He conducted the dairy part of the
business at his father's farm before
joining the army in June 1916. He
served overseas, and after the taking
of Zeitun Ridge, when the 14th Black
Watch (F. &F.'&) led the advance to
the village of Zeitunia. and were
under severe artillery and machine
gun fire, he was amongst those struck
down. He was in the act of carrying
a wounded comrade to shelter when
he was hit by a bullet in the spine,
and although taken by the stretcher-
bearers to the medical aid post, where
he received prompt attention, he died
in a few hours, on the 27th of Decem-
ber 1917. He was buried with some
of his comrades on the slope of a hill
within sight of the distant spires of
Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
After he was hit Private Paterson
asked a friend in the same Lewis

Lance-Corporal James Boyle,
Highland Light Infantry, was the
eldest son of David Boyle, mill over-
seer, 27 Elliot Street, Arbroath. He
was twenty-four years of age, and
was employed with Messrs Francis
Webster & Sons, Netherward Works.
He joined the 18th Royal Scots in
November 1915, and was drafted into
the Highland Light Infantry on
going overseas. After serving for
eighteen months in France he was
killed in action at Cambrai, on the
26th of November 1917.

Gun Section to write home for him,
and to send a parcel of souvenirs
from Jerusalem which he had ready
for posting, and which he had been
so pleased to secure for his wife and
children. This comrade, writing,
said: — "Hour husband is very much
mourned and missed by the whole of
the company, and especially by No.
1 Platoon. He was much esteemed
by all ranks. His cheery disposition
made everyone who came in contact
with him take a more than ordinary
liking to him."

160

A.B. JAMES HARDIE, R.N.D.

A.B. THOMAS RAMSAY, R.N.D.

Able-Seaman James Hardie, Royal
Naval Division, Howe Battalion,
twenty years of age, was the son of
William Bardie, 23 Abbot Street, Ar-
broath. Before joining the R.N.D.,
in November 1915, he was employed
in the reeling department of Stanley
Works. He was in the Howe Bat-
talion and while under very heavy fire
at Cambrai he got shell shock. He
was taken down the line to the
doctor, but while in sick bay he was
struck by a shell and killed on the
30th of Deoember 1917.

DRIVER FRED. PRINGLE, R.F.A.

Driver Fred. Pringle, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-five years of
age, was the son of John Pringle,
Tarry Mill near Arbroath. He was
employed at Alma Works when he
joined the army in 1914. He was
killed by shrapnel on the 3rd of
December 1917 and was buried in the
British Military Cemetery at Rubes-
court. Captain Meikle said of him :
" Fred was the life of the Battery
and a great favourite with both
officers and men."

Able-Seaman Thomas R. Ramsay,
Royal Naval Division, twenty-two
years of age, was the son of James
Ramsay, Mayview Cottage, West-
haven, Carnoustie. Before joining
the navy in January 1915 he was a
butcher with Mr Thomas Duncan,
High Street, Carnoustie. He served
at the Dardanelles, Egypt, and
France, and was posted missing at
Cambrai on the 31st of December
1917. He was presumed to have died
on that date. His commanding officer
wrote: — " He fought most bravely,
and added fresh laurels to the name
of the Hood Battalion."

PTE. JAS. BROWN, SEAFORTHS.

Private James Brown, 5th Sea-
forth Highlanders, twenty-four years
of age, was the son of David Brown,
a ploughman at Boghead, Inverkeilor,
near Arbroath. He married Mary
Edwards, Braehead, Lunan, and was
a farm servant at Arbikie when he
joined the army in July 1916. He
went to France in March 1917, and
was killed in action at Vimy Ridge
on the 16th of May.

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PTE. W. S. COUTTS, BEDFORDS.

STAFF-SURGEON MILL. R.N.V.R.

Private William S. Coutts, 6th
Bedfords, twenty years of age, was
the only son of Alex, and Marion
Coutts, 4 Lochland Street, Arbroath.
Before joining the army, in October
1916, he was an apprentice mechanic
at the Baltic Works. He was a pro-
minent junior footballer, having
played for St Thomas H.H., Park-
head, and Violet. He also played for
his battalion, and won the welter-
weight championship for boxing. In
May 1917 he went to France, and
served there as a runner. He was
killed on his twentieth birthday, the
31st of December 1917. In letters
from his captain and chaplain , he. re-
ceived the highest praise as a brave
man and one of the most efficient and
obliging soldiers of his battalion.

PTE. G. REID, BLACK WATCH.

Private George Reid, 5th Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
son of James Reid, Montrose. He
was a farm servant at Windyhills,
near Arbroath. While under train-
ing he took ill and died of pneumonia
in Ayrshire in 1917.

Staff-Surgeon George Robertson
Mill, M.D., Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve, Ballahale Park Road,
Birkenhead, was the son of James
Oilers Mill and of his wife Helena
Valentine Finlayson, London, and
nephew of Miss Finlayson, 32 Sidney
Street, Arbroath, with whom he lived
from childhood. He was thirty-

seven years of age, and had married
Ada M. Ashton, Birkenhead. He had
a distinguished career both at the
Arbroath High School and Edinburgh
University, and, after a voyage to
Japan and some time in a Liverpool
hospital, he settled in Birkenhead.
When war broke out he joined the
Naval Division, to which he was
attached. He was six months at
the Dardanelles, where he did most
strenuous work. He had been

appointed Staff-Surgeon, and on
his return to Britain in 1917 he was
given a shore appointment as a naval
surgeon for the Birkenhead district.
The following week, however, he be-
came seriously ill and died on the
11th of February 1918. He was

buried at Flaybrick-hill Cemetery,
Birkenhead, with full naval honours.

162

PTE. HENDRY. BLACK WATCH. 2nd-ENG. GILL. MERC. MARINE.

Private Charles Hendry, 5th
Black Watch, son of Charles Hendry,
16 North Grimsby, Arbroath, was
employed at the Public Shambles
when he enlisted in August 1914.
Although only fifteen, he was accep-
ted on account of his physique. Dur-
ing the battle of the Somme he was
buried by a shell explosion and sus-
tained so severe a shock that he was
eventually discharged in July 1917.
He never recovered from his injuries
and died in the Arbroath Infirmary
on the 16th of February 1918. He
was buried in the Eastern Cemetery,
with full military honours.

PTE. WILLIAM SIMPSON, A.A.C.

Private William Simpson, Ameri-
can Aviation Corps, twenty-four
years of age, was a son of John W.
Simpson, Ashgrove Farm, Montana,
and grandson of John Simpson, 21
Bank Street, Arbroath. He joined
the army when America entered the
war, but took ill when in training
and died at Waco, Texas, in Feb-
ruary 1918, from pneumonia follow-
ing influenza.

Second - Engineer Alexander
Gill, s.s. Marconi, 15 Culloden Road,
Arbroath, was the son of Henry Gill
and of his wife Gilbertina Mason,
Strathlogie, Ponderlaw. He was
twenty-eight years of age and un-
married. He served his apprentice-
ship as an engineer at Dens Iron
Works, and afterwards became a
marine engineer. A year before the
war he joined the service of Messrs
Lamport & Holt, Liverpool, and it
was on one of their boats, the s.s.
Marconi, that he lost his life when it
was torpedoed off Gibraltar on the
27th of February 1917. He and the
seventh engineer were on duty at the
time, and both were killed. Engineer
Gill was buried at Gibraltar.

SIGN. J. SCOTT, SEAFORTHS.

Signaller J. Scott, Seaforths,
Mary well, Arbroath, twenty-seven
years of age, was a grocer with
Mr Doig, Guthrie Port, and for
a time was employed with Messrs
Keith & Blackman. He had been
about a year in France when he was
killed in action.

163

PTE. JAMES DRURY, A. & S. H. TROOPER CHRISTIE. F. & F. Y.

Private James Brown Drury,

8th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, 51st Division, 303 Holmlea
Road, Cathcart, Glasgow, was the
son of William Smith Drury (for-
merly of Arbroath) and of his wife
Georgina Brown, 98 Gumming Drive,
Mount Florida, Glasgow. He was
thirty-five years of age and had
married Annie Keir Wilson, and left
a son and a daughter. Before enlist-
ing, in June 1916, he had been a
traveller with Messrs John Lees &
Co., bootmakers, Maybole. After
training, he went to France in
October 1916, and was a despatch-
carrier, afterwards taking part in en-
gagements in Belgium and France.
He was severely wounded by a shell
and, after five days at a casualty
clearing station, he was taken to No.
10 General Hospital, Rouen, where
he died the next day, on the 19th of
February 1918. His lieutenant
wrote saying that Drury had been in
his platoon sine* he himself joined,
that he was one of the best men he
had, always cheerful, a general
favourite with his comrades, and did
his duty well at all times.

Trooper Andrew Douglas
Christik, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry,
twenty-one years of age, was the son
of Andrew Christie and of his wife
Mary A. Taylor, 1 Hayswell Road,
Arbroath. He was a draughtsman
at Dens Iron Works. He had joined
the Territorials in November 1913,
and on the outbreak of war volun-
teered for service abroad. He was
on the eve of going to Gallipoli when
his health broke down, and he died
on the 28th of February 1918 from
illness contracted while on service.

PTE. KELLY, QUEEN'S LON. RGT.

Private Peter Kelly, Queen's
London Regiment, twenty-five years
of age, was the son of John Kelly,
37 Lordburn, Arbroath. He was a
grocer with the High Street Co-
operative Society when he joined the
R.A.M.C. In 1916 he applied for
service abroad, and was transferred.
He served in France, Egypt, and
Salonica, and was killed in action in
Palestine on the 9th of March 1918.
Private Kelly had three brothers who
had also volunteered for service.

164

CPL. ALLAN. M.M., CANADIANS.

A.B. JOHN SWORD HARRIS. R.N.

Corporal James Allan, M.M.,
C. Company, 195th Overseas Bat-
talion, Regina, Lampman, Sas-
katchewan, Canada, was the son of
James and Barbara Allan, Bolshan,
Friockheim. He was twenty-six
years of age and was a ploughman at
Lampman when he joined the colours
as a private in 1916. He came over-
seas with his battalion, and was pro-
moted to the rank of corporal, and
was awarded the Military Medal.
After serving for two years he took
part in the heavy fighting during the
first part of the German advance,
and was killed in action on the 12th
of March 1918. Corporal Allan's

brother, Private Alexander Allan,
also served with the Forces, and had
fallen in the previous August.

PTE. A. THOMS, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Thoms, 7th
Black Watch, twenty-three years of
age, was the son of Alexander Thoms,
12 Abbey Path, Arbroath. He was
reported missing on the 9th of April
1918, and was presumed to have
been killed at that time.

Able-Seaman John Sword Harris,
Royal Navy, eighteen years of
age, was the youngest son of Mrs
J. Harris, 48£ Cairnie Street, Ar-
broath. He was a clerk in the Ar-
broath branch of the Bank of Scot-
land. He joined the navy in June
1917, and was serving as a gunner
on H.M.S. Tithonus when that
vessel was torpedoed on the 28th cf
March 1918 off the Firth of Forth.
No trace was ever found of Gunner
Harris, and he was presumed to
have been drowned.

LIEUT. W. FARQUHAR, R.F.A.

Lieutenant W. R. Farquhar,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
John Farquhar, Kimberley, formerly
of Arbroath, and cousin of Rowland
C. Farquhar, Hill Place, Arbroath.
He served as captain through the
South-West African campaign, and
then came to Europe and joined the
R.F.A. , in which he saw much service
in France and Flanders. He died
from wounds and shell shook at Queen
Alexandra's Military Hospital, Lon-
don, on the 23rd of March 1918.

165

C.S.M. J.S. FRASER, GORDONS.

PTE. A. WATT. BLACK WATCH.

Company Sergeant-Major John
S. Fraser, 4th Gordon Highlanders,
Andson Street, Friockheim, was the
son of William Fraser and of his wife
Elizabeth Duguid, Brechin. He was
thirty-seven years of age, and had
married Ida Edwards, Brechin, and
left three sons. Sergeant-Major
Fraser was a slater in Friockheim,
and was a most useful member of the
Parish Council. He was also a scout-
master, and was secretary to the
Masonic Lodge. He had long been
connected with the Volunteers and
Territorials, and held the long service
medal. He was mobilised in August
1914 as a sergeant in the 5th Black
Watch, and appointed to instructor
duty. He went to France with the
Gordons, and was acting C.S.M.
when he was killed at Hermies, near
Bourbon Wood, on the 22nd of March
1918. His CO. said:— "He was a
good and faithful soldier, and a
splendid leader of men." The chap-
lain wrote : — ' ' He was one of the
best men we had, and a man who
could ill be spared. His work out
here was excellent, and officers and
men were greatly attached to him."

Private Alexander Watt, 6th
Black Watch, was the son of Charles
and Jemima Watt, West Balmirmer,
near Arbroath. He was a farm ser-
vant in the Letham district when he
joined the colours in September 1914
at the age of seventeen. He was
posted missing on the 21st of March
1918, and was reported to have died
of wounds on the field on that date.

L-CPL. W. CROFTS. CANADIANS.

Lance-Corporal William Boag

Crofts, Canadian Seaforth High-
landers, was the only son of William
Crofts, 6 Gowan Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-nine years of age, and
unmarried. At one time he was a
baker with Messrs Grant & Laing,
but went to America and was em-
ployed in a shipyard in San Francisco.
He joined the Canadian Seaforth
Highlanders as a private in June
1916, and came over to France, where
he served for eight months. LancE-
Corporal Crofts was killed in action
on the 29th of September whilst
going into Cambrai on the last day
of the attack.

166

PTE. G. FITZCHARLES, R.S.

L-CPL. D. RITCHIE, E. YORKS.

Private George Fitzcharles, 3rd
Royal Scots, 33 Park Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Michael Fitz-
charles, Guthrie Port. He was
thirty-two years of age, had married
Isabella Hutton and left a son and a
daughter. He was a furniture dealer
with his father when he joined the
army in July 1915. He went to
France in October, and was invalided
home the following year suffering
from shell shock and wounds. In
1917 he returned to France, was
slightly wounded several times, and
was killed in action on the 27th of
March 1918. His platoon officer
wrote of him : — ' ' He was a good sol-
dier. We feel his loss very much."

Lance-Corporal David Ritchie,
East Yorkshire Regiment, Wyn-
grove, Carnoustie, was the son rf-
George Ritchie, 64 Cairnie Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-eight
years of age, and had married Isa-
bella Mathers. He was a baker m
Fargo, U.S.A., and came over from
America and enlisted as a private n
the Army Service Corps in November
1915. He was sent across to France,
and served there for eighteen months,
after which he was transferred to the
East Yorkshire Regiment. Lance-
Corporal Ritchie was killed in action
on the 21st of March 1918. His
elder brother, Private George Ritchie,
fell at the battle of Loos.

SAPR. ROBERTSON, CANADIANS.

Sapper Ralph Robertson, Cana-
dians, was the son of Mrs Robertson,
Thistlebank, Carnoustie. He was
married, and left two children. He
was with Messrs Anderson & Co.,
Ltd., and afterwards went to Canada.
He had been in France seven weeks
when he was killed by the bursting of
a shell in his dug-out.

PTE. J. S. ANDERSON, B.W.

Private James S. Anderson, 7th
Black Watch, was the son of J.
Anderson, 25 West Abbey Street, Ar-
broath. He married Jemima Pattullo,
32 Ernest Street, and was a clerk in
the employment of Messrs Wordie &
Co. when he joined the army. He died
of wounds in the Field Hospital at
Gaucourt on the 28th of March 1918.

167

2nd-MEUT. J. LAIRD. K.R.R.

L.CPL. MOORE, BLACK WATCH.

Second-Lieutenant James Dun-
can Laird, King's Royal Rifle Corps,
was the elder son of James Duncan
Laird and of his wife Agnes Young
Hutcheon, Rosebrae Farm, Arbroath.
He was twenty-three years of age,
and had married Ruth Maclaren.
He was an engineer at the Electric-
Works at Broughty Ferry and Dun-
dee. In February 1916 he joined the
Royal Engineers as a sapper, and
served at Clipstone, London, Llan-
dudno, and Conway. Afterwards he
was drafted to Kimmel Park, Rhyl,
in September 1917 was commissioned
to the King's Royal Rifle Corps, and
went across to France with them in
October. He served there until the
great German advance in the spring
of 1918. His platoon at that time
was near Nesle, holding a position in
front of a village when he was com-
pelled to withdraw owing to the heavy
shelling and the great number of the
enemy attacking. Lieutenant Laird
was struck in the body by a piece of
shrapnel. His companions could
do little for him, and he died at
Roye-le-petit on the 24th of
March 1918.

Lance-Corporal Robert Valen-
tine Moore, 5th Black Watch,
twenty-two years of age, was the son
of George Moore, 9 Lochland Street,
Arbroath. He was a plumber with
Messrs John C. Lindsay & Son, when
he enlisted in February 1916. He
took part in five battles, and was
made a lance-corporal on the field.
He was gassed in October 1917, and
was reported wounded and missing on
the 21st of March 1918. The chaplain
wrote : — ' As the Germans were
advancing, and he could not walk, he
had to be left behind. We hope that
he is a prisoner." This hope, how-
ever, was not realised, as no further
information as to L-Cpl. Moore's
fate was received.

CHIEF-ENGINEER JAS. MILL.

Chief-Engineer James Mill, Mer-
cantile Marine Service, 73 Ladyloan,
Arbroath, was the son of William
Mill, lighthouse-keeper. He was
thirty-nine years of age when the
vessel on which he was serving was
torpedoed, and he was drowned on
the 20th of April 1918.

168

GNR. W. SPARK, M.M.. R.F.A.

PTE. D. A. DOYLE, CAMERONS.

Gunner William M'Gregor
Spark, M.M., Royal Field Artillery,
was the third son of James Spark and
of his wife Ann M'Gregor, 20 Helen
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
five years of age^ and had served his
apprenticeship with the firm of
Messrs Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd.,
and for a number of years had been a
moulder with Messrs Weir, in Glas-
gow. He joined the Royal Field
Artillery in Glasgow in September
1914. He distinguished himself by
his gallantry in restoring communica-
tion under heavy shell fire, and was
awarded the Military Medal. Two
years later Gunner Spark was killed
in action, on the 22nd of March 1918,
near Veranges.

SERGT. WM. HARDIE, D.G.

Sergeant William Hardie, 2nd
Dragoon Guards, forty-seven years
of age; was the son of Alexander
Hardie and of his wife Jemima
Davidson, West End, Friockheim. He
was working in Cheshire when he
enlisted in 1914, and he was killed
on the 25th of March 1918.

Private David A. Doyle, 5th

Cameron Highlanders, was the
youngest son of Mrs Arthur Doyle,
40 Maule Street. Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age, and was a
textile worker with Messrs Webster
Brothers, Stanley Works. He joined
the army in March 1917 as a private
in the Lovat Scouts, but was after-
wards transferred to the 5th Cameron
Highlanders, and was drafted to
France in October. Private Doyle
was killecf in action on the 23rd of
March 1918 in the heavy fighting on
the western front during the last
great German offensive. His brother,
Private Richard Doyle, Black Watch,
died of wounds in October 1916.

PTE. WATSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private John Watson, 7th Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
son of Mrs James Watson, 3 Rose-
bank, Arbroath. He was an oiler at
Nursery Mills, and joined the army
in 1917. He was reported missing
from the 21st-26th of March 1918,
and was presumed to have died r.
that time.

169

2nd-LIEUT. J. CUMMING, R.F.C.

PTE. D. C. ORR. BLACK WATCH.

Second-Lieutenant James Leslie
Cumming, Royal Flying Corps, nine-
teen years of age, was the elder son
of Edwin C. Cumming and of his wife
Mary Fairweather, Cardean, Ar-
broath. He was acquiring a business
training in the office of Messrs
Stewart Bros., manufacturers, Dun-
dee, when he joined the Highland
Light Infantry as a private in Feb-
ruary 1917. He got a commission in
the Royal Flying Corps in October
of that year, and passed as pilot in
February 1918. He had a promising
career before him, both in the Flying
Corps and as a business man, but it
was suddenly cut short by a flying
accident at Winchester, when he was
killed on the 24th of March 1918.
Lieutenant Cumming was buried in
the Arbroath Eastern Cemetery with
full military honours.

PTE. D. MORTIMER GORDONS.

Private David H. Mortimer,
Gordon Highlanders, son of Mrs
Mortimer, Barry Road, Carnoustie,
was a shoemaker with Messrs
Scroggie Bros. He was killed in 1918.

Private David C. Orr, 8th Black
Watch, was the only son of Hugh
Orr and brother of Mrs Davidson, 32
St Vigeans Road, Arbroath, with
whom he lived. He was nineteen
years of age, and was employed as a
labourer with Messrs Keith & Black-
man Co., Ltd. He enlisted in
October 1916, and was sent across to
Fiance in the following September.
He served there for six months, and
was killed in action during the heavy
fighting on the western front on the
23rd of March 1918.

PTE. THOMSON, S. WALES BDS.

Private Roy Bartlett Thomson,

South Wales Borderers, twenty-one
years of age, was the son of John
Thomson and of his wife, Mina
Willocks, 10 Gardyne Street, Frioek-
heim, and grandson of William Wil-
locks. Blindloch, Arbroath. He was
a draughtsman with Messrs Douglas
Eraser & Sons, Arbroath, when he
enlisted in 1916 in the A.S.C., being
afterwards transferred. He served
for fifteen months in France, and was
killed on the 30th of August 1918.

170

TR. BROWN. DRAGOON GUARDS

PTE. THOMAS PORTER. H.L.I.

Trooper William Gardiner
Brown, 6th Dragoon Guards, was
the youngest son of Frank Brown
and of his wife Annie Gardiner,
Elliot, near Arbroath. He was
twenty-eight years of age, and before
enlisting in April 1917 was at Kelly
Bleachfield. He enlisted in the 4th
Dragoon Guards, and trained at
Tydworth Camp, London. He

crossed the Channel to France in
December 1917, and on his arrival
at the base was transferred to the
6th Dragoon Guards. He saw a good
deal of stiff fighting in the opening
weeks of 1918, and on the 24th of
March he was severely wounded, and
died at 46 Casualty Clearing Station
without regaining consciousness. He
was buried by the chaplain in a
" peaceful British Cemetery" at
Noyon.

STOKER HAMILTON OGG,
Stoker Hamilton Ogg,

R.N.

Royal

Navy, was the son of J. L. Ogg, 19
Millgate Loan, Arbroath. He was
drowned at sea, the vessel on which he
served having been torpedoed.

Private Thomas Porter, 12th
Highland Light Infantry, was the
nephew and adopted son of David
Donaldson, 18 Fergus Square, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-four years
of age, and was a faxm servant at
West Grange of Cbnon when he en-
listed in July 1915. After three
months' training he was sent to
France, where he served for two and
a half years. Private Porter was
twice mentioned in despatches, in
May, amd again in October 1917. He
was killed in action on the 25th of
March 1918 during a fierce conflict
against tremendous odds. His com-
manding officer wrote: — "At all
times I have found him a fearless,
courageous, and dutiful soldier, and
an example to many."

MAJOR ROBERTSON, M.C.,R.F.A.

Major Herbert Robertson, M.C.,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
the Rev. John Robertson, at one
time minister of the East Free
Church, Arbroath. Major Robertson
was awarded the Military Cross. He
died of wounds in May 1918.

CAPT. BLACK, M.C., SUFFOLKS.

PTE. J. BRAND, ROYAL SCOTS.

Captain David Smith Black,
M.O., 7th Suffolk Regiment, twenty-
nine years of age, was the son of
David Black and of his wife Alexina
Smith, 127 Greenheads Street, Glas-
gow, and grandson of George Smith,
Brechin Road, Arbroath. He was
in the Civil Service when he enlisted
in October 1914 in the 17th H.L.J.
Later he was transferred, being
gazetted second-lieutenant in March
1917. In August he gained the Mili-
tary Cross and his captaincy. The
' ' Gazette ' ' notice was : — ' ' For con-
spicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty during a raid on the enemy's
position. Finding that the first
objective required but little mop-
ping up, he led the second wave to
the second objective, where many
of the enemy were killed and
wounded. He then withdrew his
company in good order, after taking
a number of prisoners, and, having
re-organised them under heavy shell
fire, took over a portion of the front
line. Throughout he displayed great
pluck and initiative." Captain

Black was killed in action at Albert
on the 27th of March 1918.

Private Joseph Brand, Royal
Scots, 77 Lochland Street, Arbroath,
was the son of Joseph Brand and of
his wife, Jane Johnstone, 68 Howard
Street. He married Margaret Ann
Steven, and left one daughter. He
was thirty-three years of age, and
was a baker with the Equitable Co-
operative Society. He was a well-
known figure on the bowling greens,
being champion of the Abbey green
in 1911, and winner of the Captain
Smith Cup in 1915. He attested
under the Derby scheme, and joined
the army in November 1916. He
served in the Army Service Corps for
a year as a baker, being afterwards
transferred. After training in Edin-
burgh, he left for the western front
in January 1918, and fell fighting
during the retreat on the 26th of
March. He was buried in the mili-
tary cemetery at Wailly.

PTE. JOHN RAMSAY. GORDONS.

Private John Ramsay, Gordon
Highlanders, Lindsay Street, who
was a reedmaker in Arbroath, was
killed in action in 1918.

172

CAPT. ALAN D. BLACK. R.E. L-CPL. NORMAN LAWTON, N.Z.

Captain Alan D. Black, 1st City
of Dundee Royal Engineers (T.F.),
Bellefield Avenue, Dundee, was the
son of David Black, Petrograd, and
of Mrs Black, Dundee, formerly of
Arbroath. He was twenty-four years
of age, had married Marjorie Hale,
and left one daughter. Captain Black
was a textile engineer, and had been
employed for some time in the West-
burn Foundry, Arbroath, but was
afterwards in Blackness Foundry.
Dundee. In 1906 he joined the Terri-
torial Force as a sapper, and got his
commission before the war. He was
mobilised on the outbreak of hos-
tilities, and went to France in the
spring of 1915. He went through
much stiff fighting during his service
there until, on the 27th of May 1918,.
he was killed instantaneously by
machine gun fire at Germicourt, near
Berry-au-Bac, while pluckilv leading
his men over a trench. His Com-
manding Officer, writing of him.
said: — "His loss will be keenly
felt by the whole company, especially
by myself, as I have always found
him so ready to give me any help and
assistance possible."

Lance-Corporal Norman Lawton,
15th Reinforcements, New Zealand
Force, Auckland, was the son of
Joseph Lawton, Union Cottage,
Friockheim. He was thirty-six years
of age, and was a gardener at Letham
Grange before going to New Zealand.
He had been for three years a land-
scape gardener there when he joined
up in May 1916. He came to England
in October with the 4th New Zealand
Rifle Brigade. The following month
he went to France. He was wounded
in the spring, was again wounded on
the 28th of March 1918, and he
died the following day in a dressing
station at Beaussart, where he was
buried.

SGT. URQUHART. ROYAL SCOTS.

Sergeant Harry Urqtjhart, Royal
Scots, twenty-three years of age,
was the son of George Urquhart,
ploughman at Hatton Mill, Kinnell.
He was a farm servant in the
district when he enlisted as a
private. In March 1918 he was re-
ported missing and was presumed
killed in action.

173

CAPT. J. 0. G. STUART, M.C.B.W.

PTE. OGILVIE, BLACK WATCH.

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Captain James Ogilvie Graxt
Stuart, M.C., 5th Black Watch, was
the son of Robert Stuart, Inspector
of Poor, and of liis wife Janet
Steve Reid, 19 Dalhousie Place,
Arbroath. He was twenty-five
years of age and was on the foreign
training staff of the Chartered Bank
of India, Australia and China, Lon-
don. He served two years with the
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, but
joined the London Scottish in 1912
and went to France in 1914 as a cor-
poral in the 1st Battalion. He was
promoted sergeant early in 1915 and
later was commissioned to the 5th
Black Watch. He was soon pro-
moted lieutenant and got his cap-
taincy in July 1917. On the same
day he was awarded the Military
Cross at St Julien for conspicuous
gallantry and devotion to duty while
commanding his company in an
attack. Captain Stuart was killed
by a sniper while making a per-
sonal reconnaisance at Hangar Wood,
Villers Bretonneaux during a retreat
from St Quentin on the 30th of
March 1918 whilst in command of his
battalion. The chaplain wrote: —

Private George Ogilvie, 11th
Black Watch, was the son of George
Ogilvie and of his wife, Jane Begg,
2'A Church Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-seven years of age, and was a
labourer at Dens Iron Works when he
enlisted in August 1915. He went to
France early in 1916, hut two months
later was invalided home suffering
from trench feet. He returned to
France and was posted as missing on
the 24th of March 1918, and was pre-
sumed to have been killed on that
date.

" His death is an irreparable loss to
the battalion. He was a splendid
company commander, and when he
was called on under very difficult cir-
cumstances to take command of the
battalion, he rose to the occasion and
led the men magnificently. We all
loved " Jogs," as he was familiarly
called, he was a favourite with every-
body, and his men would have done
anything for him." His colonel
wrote: — "He was one of the finest
officers I have ever had under me,
and I trusted him absolutely."

174

PTE. CARRIE. LON. SCOTTISH.

PTE, MILNE, BLACK WATCH.

Private Frederick "William
Carrie, 1st London Scottish, twenty
years of age, was the son of George
Carrie, Master of the House of In-
dustry Douglas, Isle of Man, for-
merly of Arbroath. He joined the
Civil Service, and was attached to
the Admiralty. Private Carrie
joined the London Scottish in Feb-
ruary 1917, and was sent to France
four months later. He was killed in
action on the 28th of March 1918.
His CO. wrote: — " He was a keen
and capable young soldier. He was
in the bombing section and was in
a dug-out in a communication trench
connecting the front with the sup-
port trenches. The Germans drove
right past this point, thereby im-
prisoning his section. By a counter-
attack the Germans were driven out
again , the bombing section being re-
leased, and they carried on till a
block was established. At this point
the section was withdrawn for a short
rest. It was necessary for the section
to take over the block again, and
while holding this a shell killed six
of them. All were buried in the block,
which lies in the Oppy sector."

Private George Milne, 5th Black
Watch, was the son of George Milne,
39 Dishland Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-two years of age, and was a
farm servant at Leuchlands when he
enlisted in July 1915. He went to
Fiance in October, and the following
year was wounded on the Somme. On
the 21st of March 1918 it was offici-
ally reported that Private Milne had
been killed in action but afterwards
information was sent that he had
been taken prisoner and had died of
wounds in German territory on the
4th of April 1918.

CAPT. ANDEESON, M.C., L.F..

Captain D. W. Anderson, M.C.,
London Regiment, twenty-nine years
of age, was the son of Mrs Anderson,
Maule Street, Carnoustie. In civil
life he was a dentist in Coventry. He
was promoted captain on the field,
won the Military Cross in November
1917 and was killed in action in 1918.
Captain Anderson had two brothers
ia the army; one was killed in action,
and another brother was severely
wounded in Gallipoli.

175

SGT. CRAMMOND. M.M.. R.F.A.

PTE. GUILD, BLACK WATCH.

Sergeant Griffith Ireland Cram-
mond, M.M., Royal Field Artillery,
twenty-five years of age, was the son
of Peter Crammond and of his wife
Elizabeth Ireland, 33 St Mary Street,
Arbroath. He served his apprentice-
ship as a plumber with Mr John
Rayne. Afterwards he was in
Greenock, but returned and joined
the Forfarshire Battery of the R.F.A.
as a gunner at the end of 1914.
After having been wounded in France
he was artillery instructor at Scotton
Camp until November 1917, when he
returned overseas. On the 5th of
April 1918 a shell from the enemy
landed on the gun and killed him in-
stantaneously. His major wrote: —
"He had done invaluable work
and displayed the very greatest cour-
age, and I cannot tell you how much
we shall all miss him. He was a
splendid example of a soldier, and at
all times and under all conditions
was most cheerful. He was most
popular with both officers and men
of my battery, and his name had only
recently been sent in for a decora-
tion." The Military Medal was
awarded after his death.

Private Alfred Guild, 7th Black
Watch, was the son of Peter Guild,
carpenter, and of his wife Joan
Russell, 48 John Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-eight years of age.
Before he joined the army in March
1916 he was an ironmonger at Mr
James Cuthbert's. Private Guild
went to France in 1916, and was
twice wounded. He was reported
missing on the 9th of April 1918, and
afterwards was officially presumed to
have died on that date.

L-CPL. ROBT. CRAIG, GORDONS.

Laxce-Corporal Robert Craig,
7th Gordon Highlanders, was the
step-son of William Rae, attendance
officer, Guthrie. He joined the army
when he was eighteen years of age,
and went from India to France with
the 2nd Gordons. He was wounded,
and on recovery was transferred to
the 7th Gordons. After his return to
France he was again wounded, and
was sent to Shrewsbury V.A.D. Hos-
pital, where he died on the 25th of
April 1918. He was buried in
Guthrie Churchyard.

176

SEN. W.O. THOS. DILLY, R.N.

FDR. WILLIAM OGG, R.F.A.

Senior Wireless Operator
Thomas M'Kinnon Dilly, sixteen
years of age, was the son of Stuart
Dilly, 16 High Street, Arbroath. He
was a grocer with the High Street Co-
operative Society Ltd., when in June
1917 he started training in wireless
telegraphy at the North British Wire-
less School, Dundee. In December
he gained the Postmaster-General's
Certificate of Proficiency. He passed
all the Marconi tests in London, and
he made his first voyage to Bergen
and Christiania on H.M.T. Carperby.
In April 1918 he was appointed to
H.M.T. Cyrene. The vessel sailed from
Glasgow on the 5th of April, and was
torpedoed the same night off Holy-
head. As the electric installation
had been destroyed, the S.O.S. signal
could not be given. It was presumed
that Operator Dilly had been amongst
those who were drowned. The
Marconi Wireless Company, in a
letter to his parents, wrote : — " You
will be proud to know that your son
gave his life for his country as truly
and as bravely as those young men
who have laid down their lives in
actual combatant service."

Bombardier William Ogg, Royal
Field Artillery, was the son of
William Ogg, 13 Ann Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-five years of
age, and was a cabinetmaker with
Messrs J. P. Grew ar& Son. He was
a member of the Arbroath Battery of
the R.F.A. when war broke out, and
he mobilised as a gunner with his bat-
tery. For some time he was an in-
structor in England, and in January
1917 he went to France. He served
there for over a year until, on the 9th
of April 1918, he was killed in action
near Sailly-sur-la-Lys. Writing of
his death, his major said: — "You
will be proud to know that your son
died in a truly soldierlike manner,
serving his gun to the last."

PTE. THOMSON, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private William Thomson, Royal
Scots, nineteen years of age, son of
Alexander Thomson, Maule Street,
Carnoustie, died in Horton War Hos-
pital, Epsom, on the 27th of April
1918., He was buried in Barry
Churchyard, with full military
honours.

177

SGT. R. E. KYDD, CANADIANS.

PTE. J. STEWART. CANADIANS

Sergeant Robert Ewart Gauldie
Kydd, 24th Battalion Victoria Rifles,
Canadian Contingent, was the
youngest son of James Kydd and of
his wife Jean Laken Guild, Lethani
Mill, near Arbroath. He was thirty-
seven years of age, and was at one
time a clerk with the N.B. Railway
Co. at Arbroath. In 1901 he enlisted
in the Scots Guards, and served for
eight years. He afterwards went to
Canada, where he was when war
broke out. In December 1914 he
joined the 24th Victoria Rifles as a
private, and acted for a time as a
drill instructor. He was promoted
sergeant, and went to France, where
he was wounded in 1916. He was in-
valided to England, and was for a
time clerk in the Canadian Records
Office, London, and later instructor
at the Canadian Depot in the south
of England. Sergeant Kydd was
killed in action on the 11th of April
1918 at Neuville Vitasse, near Arras,
France. He was buried near where
he fell. His platoon commander
wrote : — ' ' He was simply wonderful
in the line, and the greatest help to
me."

Private John Stewart, 43rd
Canadian Cameron Highlanders,
Grandview, Manitoba, Canada, was
the son of John Stewart and of his
wife Mary Stott, Anniston Lodge,
Inverkeilor. He was twenty-seven
years of age and unmarried. At one
time he was employed in farm work
in the district, but he went to
Canada, and was a contractor in
Manitoba when he enlisted in June
1916. He was wounded on the 11th
of April 1918, and was taken to No.
57 Casualty Clearing Station, and
died there a few minutes afterwards.
His platoon officer said that in Pri-
vate Stewart he found one of his best
and most reliable soldiers,, always
cheerful, and doing his duty.

PTE. DUNDAS, LIVERPOOL SCOT.

Private Charles Dtjndas, Liver-
pool Scottish, was a son of John Dun-
das, Birmingham, formerly of Ar-
broath, and nephew of David Dundas,
Royston, Arbroath. He was nineteen
years of age, joined tthe army in 1917,
and was killed in the German
advance in 1918.

178

PTE. ALEX. B. SHERIFF, M.G.C. PTE. LOWSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private Alexander Barrie
Sheriff, 39th Machine Gun Corps,
twenty years of age, was the son of
Frederick Sheriff, 24 Lady bridge
Street, Arbroath. He was a rail-
way clerk at Carnoustie when he
joined the 3rd Cameron Highlanders
in January 1917. Three months later
he was transferred to the M.G.C. On
the 13th of April 1918 he was reported
wounded and missing at Merville,
and is presumed to have died at that
time. His brother was killed in 1916.

PTE. D. OUR, BLACK WATCH

Private David Orr, 1st Black
Watch, 25 Lady bridge Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of Joseph Orr.
He was forty years of age, had
married Annie Swan Swankie, and
left four daughters and two sons. He
joined the army in 1903, and served
in India. When war broke out he
was a ploughman at Balcathie. He
rejoined the colours and was wounded
at the battle of the Aisne, and dis-
charged, but he never really re-
covered and died in the Arbroath In-
firmary on the 17th of January 1918.

Private George Low son, 7th
Black Watch, was the son of George
Lowson, 16 Hannah Street, Arbroath.
He was eighteen years of age, and
was well-known as a clever footballer
of the Grange team. He was an ap-
prentice engineer at Dens Iron Works
when he joined the 3rd Gordon High-
landers in June 1917. On being
drafted to the front, he was trans-
ferred. He had been in France only
ten days when he was wounded, and
died on the 17th of April 1918, in
No. 6 General Hospital, Rouen,
France. He was buried in an Eng-
lish cemetery at St Sever, Rouen.
Private Lowson' s officer wrote: "It
was the willing sacrifice of a gallant
Gordon Highlander for his own home
folk. He used to be my servant and
I shall always look back on the
memory of his faithfulness to duties."

PTE. JOHN BRADFORD, B.W.

Private John Bradford, Black
Watch, twenty-one years of age,
son of James Bradford, ploughman,
Woodhill, Carnoustie, died of
wounds in April 1918.

179

L-SGT. HARRY DUFFUS. H.L.I.

PTE. WILSON. BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Sergeant Harry W.
Duffus, Highland Light Infantry, 4
George Drive, Govan, was the son of
John Duffus, 40 Sidney Street, Ar-
broath. He belonged to a well-known
Arbroath family which has produced
some noted athletes and cross-country
runners, his brothers James and
Stewart being champion runners of
Scotland. He was thirty-six years
of age, and had served his appren-
ticeship as a tailor with Messrs
Anderson & Hewit, afterwards had
been for some time in Barrow-in-
Furness, and later for about twelve
years with Messrs Border & Co.,
Glasgow. In November 1915 he joined
the 9th H.L.I. (Glasgow Highlan-
ders), and after having trained at
Ripon went to France. He came
through two years' service there
without a scratch, until the grim
battle of the 16th of April 1918, when
he was killed by shrapnel, and was
buried on the battlefield. The chap-
lain wrote: — "We shall miss our
comrade, but he has laid down his
life in a great cause, and he has
heard his Master's greeting, ' Well
done good and faithful servant.' "

Private Ronald Wilson, Black
Watch, nineteen years of age, was
the son of Mrs Wilson, Berryfauld,
Arbroath. He was a clerk with
Messrs Douglas Fraser & Sons before
he joined the Highland Cyclist Bat-
talion in September 1916. He was
transferred to the Royal Highlanders
before going to France in October
1917. On the 21st of March 1918 he
was posted missing, and is presumed
to have died on or since that date.

PTE. W. M'GOWAN, CAMERONS.

Private William M' Go wan, 2nd
Cameron Highlanders, twenty-five
years of age, was the son of James
M'Gowan, 7 Lillies Wynd, Arbroath.
He was a vanman with Mr George
Stewart, butcher, High Street. Pri-
vate M'Gowan joined the army as a
regular six months before war broke
out and left Inverness, where he was
stationed, for France on the day war
was declared. He was twice

wounded and gassed, and in the
summer of 1917 he was invalided
home. He died in Arbroath Infir-
mary on the 1st of March 1918.

180

PTE. BOUICK. RIFLE BRIGADE.

GNR. THOS. STUART, R.F.A.

Rifleman David Bouick, 16th
Rifle Brigade, twenty-one years of
age, was the son of David Bouick,
newsagent, Keptie Street, Arbroath.
He was a likeable and popular lad,
and was a fine singer. He had been
a baker with Mr Carnegie Soutar,
and when he joined the army in April
1915 he was posted as a baker to the
Army Service Corps, in which he
served for two years at Havre. He
was transferred to the 16th Rifle
Brigade in September 1917, and was
in the great engagements of March
and April 1918. He was killed at
Givenchy on the 18th of April.

GNR. TAYLOR, S. AFRICANS.

Gunner D. Taylor, South African
Horse Artillery, was the third son of
William Taylor, farmer, Raesmill ,
Inverkeilor, and of Mrs Taylor, Car-
noustie. He was married, and left
three of a family. He was educated
at Arbroath High School and served
his apprenticeship with Messrs
Webster & Littlejohn, solicitors.
After filling an important legal posi-
tion in Edinburgh he went to South

Gunner Thomas Stuart, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-three years of
age, was the son of William Stuart,
30 St Vigeans Road. Arbroath. He
was an apprentice moulder at Dens
Iron Works, and joined the R.F.A.
in June 1915. After nearly three
years' service he was killed instan-
taneously while feeding his gun at
Vannecourt on the 21st of March
1918. Gunner Stuart's brother,
William, was killed in May 1915.

Africa His eldest son, who was

studying medicine, was amongst the
first to volunteer for service, and he
himself decided that the call of the
Empire must be obeyed, and joined
the S.A.H.A. as a gunner. When in
this country with his unit he received
news of the death of his son at the
front, but this only strengthened his
resolution to do his utmost, and when
offered his discharge on account of
age, or a post on garrison duty, he
replied that he had not come all the
way from South Africa for any other
work but fighting the Hun. He was
killed in the last German advance.

181

L-CPL. SWINTON, ESSEX REGT.

PTE. CHAS. BUTCHART, B.W.

Lance-Corporal David Swinton,
2nd Essex Regiment, was the grand-
son of James Taylor, 20 Park Street,
Arbroath. He was nineteen years of
age, and had been employed at the
railway as an engine-cleaner. He
joined the army in August 1915 as a
gunner in the Royal Field Artillery,
and after having been six months in
France he was invalided home. He
was transferred to the South Staf-
fords as a musketrv instructor, and
later to the 2nd Essex. Sixteen days
after his return to France Lance-
Corporal Swinton, when running to
take a post, was killed by a sniper
at Rue de Vinaigre. Roselles, on the
19th of April 1918.

2nd-LT. ARNOLD J. PETRLE. N.Z.

Second-Lieutenant Arnold J.
Petrie, New Zea.landers, Invercar-
gill, New Zealand, was the grandson
of Captain Alexander Petrie, Ar-
broath, and the nephew of Miss
Petrie, 28 West Path, Carnoustie.
He was wounded at Mons. He was
again wounded, and died in hospital
in France on the 18th of April 1918.

Private Charles Butchart, 5th
Black Watch, 4 Guthrie Hill. Ar-
broath, was the son of John Butchart,
East Abbey Street. He was thirty-
eight years of age, and had married
Elizabeth Gauldie. He was an en-
thusiastic footballer, and played in
the Parkhead team. He was a
bleacher at Elliot when lie enlisted
in April 1915. After three years'
service Private Butchart was killed
in France on the 24th of April 1918.

PTE. J. MARSHALL, E. YORK"

Private James Weighton Mar-
shall, East Yorkshire Regiment,
was the son of H. Marshall, Hull,
formerly of Arbroath. He was thirty-
four years of age. and left a widow
and two daughters. He was killed in
action on the 24th of March 1918.

CAPT. HALL, LONDON REGT.

Captain George Hall, London
Regiment, was the son of Mrs Hall,
Carlogie Terrace, Carnoustie. He
went to France in 1916 and was men-
tioned in despatches early in 1917.
He was killed in action in 1918.

182

PTE. MILNE, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. CROALL, BLACK WATCH.

Stretcher-Bearer James Milne,
5th Black Watch, twenty-two years
of age, was the son of ex-Sergeant
Charles Milne, R.F.A.. and of his
wife Mary Willocks, 69 Sidney
Street, Arbroath. He was an ap-
prentice baker with Mr W. B.
Williamson. He joined the local

battalion of the Black Watch Terri-
torials in 1912 and was mobilised at
the outbreak of war. Private Milne
went to France with his battalion in
1914. He was specially mentioned
in despatches in November 1915 and
again in November 1916. He was
killed in action at Mount Kemmel on
the 24th of April 1918. Private

Milne had three brothers with the
colours, one, Gunner Charles Milne,
R.F.A., died of pneumonia in Ar-
broath Infirmary.

2nd-LIEUT. A. M'GREGOR, B.W.

Second-Lieutenant Alexander
M'Gregor, Black Watch, Ireland
Street, Carnoustie, who before the
war was in the employment of Messrs
Thomson, Fearns & Company, Dun-
dee was killed in action in 1918.

Private David C. S. Croall, 5th

Black Watch, 9 Sidney Street, Ar-
broath, was the second son of David
Croall, woodturner, and of his wife
Jeanie Anderson, 23 Lady loan. He
was thirty-two years of age and had
married Jessie Kirkaldy, and left
one son. Private Croall served his
appr entice ship with Messrs S. Fair-
weather & Sons, and afterwards
went to America and settled in An-
dover, Mass. He returned in Octo-
ber 1915, and joined the 5th Black
Watch (Lewis Gun Section). After
a year's training and service he was
sent to France, where he was
wounded and invalided home. Six
weeks after his return to France he
was killed by a sniper at Voorme-
geele on the 27th of April 1918.

PTE. JAS. MORTIMER, K.O.S.B.

Private James Mortimer, King's
Own Scottish Borderers, eighteen
years of age, was the eldest son of
Thomas Mortimer. 21 Polmadie Road,
Glasgow, formerly of 64 Fergus
Square. Arbroath. He was killed
on the 25th of April 1918.

183

PTE. SHEPHERD, ROYAL SCOTS,

CAPT. COWAN. MERC. MARINE.

Pkivate John Shepherd, 2nd
Royal Scots, was the son of James
Shepherd, 19 Cairnie Street. Ar-
broath. He was twenty-four years
of age, and was unmarried. He was
a baker with his father when he joined
the 2nd Royal Scots in December
1915. After completing his training
he was drafted to France, where he
served for two years. Private Shep-
herd was twice mentioned in de-
spatches." He was severely wounded
on the 4th of May 1918, and was
taken to No. 23 Casualty ' Clearing
Station, where he died very shortly
afterwards. His CO. wrote: — "I
knew him very well, as he was my
orderly, and had been continually
with me for four months. He had
done splendid work out here, and, no
matter what he had to do, I never
heard him ' grouse ' once. I only
wish he had been awarded a medal,
which he highly deserved, and which
I had twice recommended him for."
One of Private Shepherd's brothers,
Private Robert Shepherd, Camerons,
was a prisoner of war. and another,
Private David Shepherd, Black
Watch, was invalided home.

Captain John J. K. Cowan,
H.M.T. s.s. Kut Sang, thirty-three
years of age, 10 Bank Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of John Cowan,
master plumber, and of his wife
Betsy Ann Hood. He married

Martha Phillips, and left three
daughters. He went to sea at the
age of sixteen as an apprentice in the
employment of Messrs W. O. Taylor
& Co., shipowners, Dundee, and
after being in the Monarch Line he
entered the service of Messrs Gow,
Harrison & Co., Glasgow, as an
officer in 1909. On the outbreak of
war he went to China to the Indo-
China Steam Navigation Company.
Captain Cowan, while serving as
chief officer on s.s. Kut Sang, lost
his life through the vessel being sunk
by two torpedoes in the Mediter-
ranean on the 29th of April 1918.

SAPPER JAS. ALEXANDER, R.E.

Sapper James Alexander, Royal
Engineers. Dundee Street, Car-
noustie, at one time employed by Mr
James Gourlay, blacksmith, was
killed in action in 1918.

184

BOR. EDWD. W. JONES, R.F.A. 2nd-LT. KYDD, LABOUR CORPS.

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Bombardier Edward Watt Jones,
1st Forfarshire Battery, R.F.A. (T.).
twenty-five years of age, was the son
of Thomas H. Jones and of his wife
Margaret Edward, 17 Ogilvie Place,
Arbroath. When war broke out he
was in the office of Messrs James
Keith it Blackmail Company, Ltd.
Having been a Territorial since 1911
lie was mobilised in August 1914 and
went to France in May 1915. He
was killed near Bethune on the 1st
of May 1918. His CO. wrote :— "He
was the battery clerk and an awfully
good one at that. He had been at the
guns since the 21st of March, and his
is the beggest loss the battery has
sustained. If one wanted to know
anything one had only to ask Bom-
bardier Jones. He was never down
in the dumps, and kept all the ser-
geants cheery."

PTE. GOODMAN, BLACK WATCH.

Private Edward Goodman, Black
Watch, was a gamekeeper at Gar-
dyne Castle, Guthrie. He joined
the army in September 1917, and
was killed early in 1918.

Second-Lieutenant Henry John
Naysmith Kydd, 497th Home Ser-
vice Employment Coy., Labour
Corps, was the second son of Alex-
ander Kydd, headmaster, Ladyloan
Public School, and of his wife Mar-
garet Violet Naysmith, 11 Hillend
Road, Arbroath. He was thirty-

two years of age, and had married
Helen Davidson. He was a chemist
with his uncle, Mr A. Naysmith,
and afterwards was in business in
Fulham Road, London. He volun-
teered in 1915, and joined the 3rd
Duke of Wellington's Regiment, ob-
taining a commission. He sustained
an injury when at bayonet practice,
and although he offered to serve
abroad he was rejected. While on
service be contracted pneumonia
and died on the 13th of May 1918
in the V.A.D. Hospital at Tyne-
mouth, where he was buried with
full military honours.

PTE. FARQUHARSON, SEAF'THS.

Private George G. Farqttharson,
Seaforth Highlanders, son of G. Far-
quharson, Carnoustie, died in 1918.

185

LT. GARRARD, M.C., GORDONS.

SAPPER JOHN MUCKART, R.E.

Second - Lieutenant Frederic
George Garrard, M.C., Gordon
Highlanders, who was twenty years
of age, was the elder son of Fred-
eric William Gerrard, Brambledene,
Coul sdon, Surrey, and of his wife
Elizabeth Rodger, formerly of
Inchock, Inverkeilor. He was a ser-
geant in the Officers' Training Corps,
Croydon. From there he joined the
Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1915 and in
August 1916 went to the Royal Mili-
tary College, Sandhurst. He obtained
his commission on the 2nd of July
1917, went to Italy in December,
and on the 22nd of May 1918 he
died in a casualty clearing station
of wounds received two days pre-
viously. Lieut. Garrard was awarded
the Military Cross. The following is
the extract from the "Gazette": —
"For conspicuous gallantry and de-
votion to duty in leading a raiding
party. He was dangerously woun-
ded, but seeing another officer who
had been wounded and could not get
away, he went out and dragged him
back for fifty or sixty yards till he
got assistance from some other
men."

Sapper John Pattullo Muckart,
Royal Engineers, thirty-two years of
age, was the son of David Muckart,
J. P., and of his wife Margaret Pat-
tullo, Tarryburn House, St Vigeans.
He was an engineer with Messrs
George Anderson & Co., and was
afterwards with his father. In May
1916 he joined the army, went to
France in November, and served on
the Soissons and Thiers front. He
was reported missing on the 27th-
30th May 1918, and is presumed to
have died at that time. His younger
brother, David, died in Alexandria.

PTE. STEWART, M.M., R.S.

Private William Stewart, M.M.,
Royal Scots, twenty-one years of
age, son of James Stewart, 5 St
Vigeans Road, Arbroath, was a
plumber with Mr John Rayne he-
fore he enlisted in 1915. He was a
captain's runner, and was awarded
the Military Medal for gallantry in
standing by his captain in a very
difficult position. He was reported
missing on the 28th of March 1918,
and presumed to have been killed.

186

L-CPL. F. GILL, BLACK WATCH.

PTE. MAXWELL, CANADIANS.

Lance-Corporal Frank T. Gill,
5th Black Watch, was the son of
William Gill and of his wife Sarah
Ann Toward, Kenton Cottage,
Jamieson Street, Arbroath. He was
employed as a boot-finisher at the
Abbey Leather Works. Having

joined the 5th Black Watch (Terri-
torials) as private, he was mobil-
ised, and crossed the Channel with
his battalion soon after war broke
out, the 5th Black Watch being the
first Scottish Territorial Force in
France. He was wounded at Given-
chy. Later he passed as Corporal
Signal Instructor and for six months
instructed the troops at Ripon. He
re-crossed to France in April 1918,
and after three and a half years' ser-
vice he was injured while resting be-
hind the lines by the bursting of a
stray shell, and died of wounds on
the 29th of May. His officer, writ-
ing to his father, said: — "During
the time Lance-Corporal Gill was
with me I grew to know him well
and to admire his work both as a
signaller and a n.c.o. His company
commanders and all in C Coy. had
the greatest praise for your son."

Private William Maxwell, 26th
Canadian Infantry, 537 Eastern
Avenue, Toronto, Canada, was the
son of David Maxwell, grocer, High
Street, Arbroath, and of his wife
Annie M'Bay. He was twenty-nine
-years of age, had married, and left
one son and one daughter. Before
Koing to Canada he served his ap-
prenticeship as an engineer at West-
burn Foundry. He joined the army
in 1915 and came over to France,
where he was twice wounded. He
died in hospital in France on the
14th of June 1918 of wounds re-
ceived in action two days before.

2nd-LT. RICHARDSON, R.W.K.

Second-Lieutenant Arthur Bal-
four Richardson, 8th Royal West
Kents, twenty-nine years of age, was
the son of William Richardson and
of his wife Agnes Neil, 30 Jamieson
Street, Arbroath. He was manager
of the Mandeville branch of the Bank
of Nova Scotia when he joined the
Artists Rifles in November 1915. He
went to France in March 1916, and
was killed on the 21st of March 1918.

187

GNR. COLIN PATERSON, R.G.A. DVR. F. PROCTOR, CANADIANS.

Gunner Colin Grant Paterson,
351st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison
Artillery (T.F.), 31 Barnwell Ter-
race, Govan, was the son of Alex-
ander Paterson and of his wife Isa-
bella. Caird, 33 West Newgate, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-eight years
of age, and had married Elizabeth
Chapman, and left one son and two
daughters. He had been employed
with Mr Colin Grant, and was
subsequently a boot-finisher at
Shieldhall, Govan. He enlisted in
December 1915, and served in this
country and in France. When in

action on the 6th of June 1918 a
shell fell close to the gun and the gun-
ners shifted their quarters ; Gunner
Paterson, however, was the last to
cross the intervening ground for
shelter, and another shell dropping
killed him instantaneously He was
buried in a cemetery near the place
where he fell. His section officer,
writing of him, said: — " He was
well liked by both officers and men,
and was a most energetic and faith-
ful man in the execution of his
duties. He lias right well upheld the
name of our glorious country.'

Driver Frederick George Proc-
tor, 53rd Canadian Field Artillery,
twenty years of age, was the son of
William Proctor and of his wife Mary
Ann Davis, 36 Marketgate, Arbroath
(later 18 Gill son Avenue, West
Toronto). Before leaving for Canada
he was a. clerk with Messrs Dewar
it Webster, solicitors. He enlisted
in February 1915, and after three
years' service, on the 5th of July
1918, he was seriously wounded and
died the same day. His brother
wrote: — "George died trying io
save his two horses, but the three
got killed. He was one of the
finest boys that ever lived."

PTE. A. MDLLAR, SEAFORTHS.

Private Arthur Mit.lar, 4th Sea-
forth Highlanders, nineteen years of
age, was the son of John and Helen
Millar, 44 Addison Place, Arbroath.
He was a clerk with Messrs James
Keith & Blackman Co., Ltd., when
he enlisted in December 1914. On
the 20th of July 1918 he was reported
missing, and was presumed to have
been killed in action on that date.

188

PTE. CAMERON, BLACK WATCH. PTE. N. GIBB, SCOTS GUARDS.

Private Alexander Cameron, 5th
Black Watch, was the fifth son of
John Cameron, 5 Fergus Street, Ar-
broath. He was twenty-seven years
of age and unmarried, and before go-
ing to the front was employed as a
fitter at the Arbroath Gas Works.
Private Cameron had been a Terri-
torial, and was one of the first Ar-
broath men to rejoin when war was
declared. After three months' train-
ing he was drafted with the 5th
Black Watch to France in November
1914, and served there continuously
till March 1918, when he was taken
prisoner. He died of pneumonia on
the 10th of July 1918 in Denain
Prisoner of War Camp Hospital.

Private Norman Alexander Gibb,
2nd Scots Guards, twenty-three years
of age was the son of John G. Gibb
and of his wife Ann Grant, Station
House, Inverkeilor, near Arbroath.
He was a railway clerk in the Super-
intendent's Office, Tay Bridge Sta-
tion, Dundee, when he joined the
army in June 1917. After training
for six months at Caterham and
London, Private Gibb went to France
in December, and served in the
trenches until the 12th of July 1918,
when he was killed by a. shell near
Arras. He was buried in a British
cemetery at Berles-au-Bois, in
France'. Private Gibb's brother fell
in action at the Dardanelles.

PTE. D. CRAIG, BLACK WATCH.

Private David Fox Craig, 2nd

Black Watch, twenty-seven years of
age, son of William W. Craig, 64
Howard Street, Arbroath, was em-
ployed at the Asphalt Works. He
enlisted in 1915, and was killed in
Palestine on the 11th of June 1918.
His brother, Corporal James Craig,
was a signaller in the Black Watch.

LT. J. L. BERRY, TANK CORPS.

LlEITTENANT J. LESLIE BERRY,

Tank Corps, 5 Briarwood Terrace,
Dundee, was the second son of the
Rev. J. B. Berry, at one time mini-
ster of the U.F. Church, Colliston.
Before joining the army he was em-
ployed with Messrs George Rollo &
Co., Panmure Street, Dundee. Lieut.
Berry was killed in action in 1918.

189

GNR. S. W. PATERSON, R.M.A.

DVR. DAVID DEUCHARS, B.W.

Gunner Stewart Wiuoe Pater-
son, Royal Marine Artillery, 2 Duke
Street, Arbroath, was the son of
George Paterson, Barns of Claver-
house, Dundee. He was thirty-one
years of age and had married Mary
A. Thomson and left three daugh-
ters. He joined the Arbroath Con-
stabulary in 1907, and along with
several other members of the
Force he enlisted in the Royal
Marine Artillery in November 1915.
After training in Portsmouth he left
for France in September 1916. He
was wounded at Ypres in July 1917,
and was for two months in a hospital
in France. On the 10th of July 1918
Gunner Paterson was in a barn hav-
ing dinner when a large shell burst
through the roof and killed him
instantly. He was buried in Lijes-
senthock Military Cemetery, Poper-
inghe. His captain, writing of him,
said he was one of the best men in
the whole battery, a brave hard-
working, cheerful comrade. The
death of Constable Paterson was the
first break in the ranks of the seven
members of the Arbroath Force who
joined the army.

Driver David Deuchars, Black
Watch, twenty-five years of age,
was the son of David Deuchars and
of his wife Isabella Falconer, 14
Spink Street, Arbroath. He was a
lorryman at the Arbroath Railway
Station when he joined the Black
Watch at Perth in March 1917.
Private Deuchars was sent to Nigg
for three months' training and after-
wards to Grantham, where he was
transferred to the 51st Heavy
Machine Gun Corps in November. He
was sent to France where he was em-
ployed as a transport driver. He
was killed by a shell when going up
the line on the morning of the 20th
of July 1918. Driver Deuchars had
a brother who served in Ireland.

PTE. ROBERTS, BLACK WATCH.

Private Frank Roberts, Black
Watch, nineteen years of age, was
the son of J. C. Roberts, Newbigging
Farm, near Arbroath. Before en-
listing in December 1914 he was a
farm servant at the Mains of Kelly.
On the 21st of March 1918 he was re-
ported missing and presumed killed.

190

SGT. J. DOUGLAS. CAMERONS,

2nd-LIEUT. D. BRACELIN, B.W.

Sergeaxt James Douglas, M.M.,
5th Cameron Highlanders, twenty-
six years of age, was the son of
James Douglas, 26 Sidney Street,
Arbroath. He served his appren-
ticeship as a plumber with Mr Cook.
High Street, but joined the regulars
in 1909 when quite a lad. He had
been for three years in India, when
war broke out, and arrived with his
regiment in France on Christmas
Day 1914. He was wounded in July
of the following year and was subse-
quently wounded a second time. In
March 1918 he was awarded the Mi'i-
tary Medal for gallantry in the field.
When leading his men forward to
attack a German position, Sergeant
Douglas was shot on the 18th of July
1918. Writing of his death his officer
said — :" He was one of the finest
n.c.o.'s and one who had served with
me in many actions. He had all the
qualities of a true soldier, and his
death is a great loss to all. As a
comrade he proved himself one of the
very best — cheery and good-natured
at all times." Sergeant Douglas's
younger brother, David, served with
the Gordons.

Second-Lieutenant Daniel Brace-
lin, 3rd S.R. Royal Highlanders,
twenty-one years of age, was the
eldest son of Captain Patrick J.
Bracelin and of his wife Maria
O'Farrell, 23 Ann Street, Arbroath.
When he joined the army he was an
undergraduate of University Col-
lege, Dundee. He was a fine athlete,
and when at the Arbroath High
School had for two years in succes-
sion won the championship trophy at
the school sports. In March 1916 he
joined the Pioneer Royal Engineers,
and served with them until Febru-
ary 1917. Having been in France for
ten months, he then came home for
a commission, and in June 1917 was
gazetted to the 3rd S.R. Royal
Highlanders. He returned to

France in April 1918, and was men-
tioned in Sir Douglas Haig's Des-
patch of December for bravery in the
field. He was killed in action in the
Bois de Courton, near Rheims, on the
20th of July 1918. A Requiem Mass
was offered for Lieutenant Bracelin
in St Thomas Roman Catholic
Church, Arbroath, of which he was
a prominent member.

191

PTE. E. DALGARNO, GORDONS. SIG. ANDERSON, WORCESTERS

Private Eric George Dalgarno,
4th Gordon Highlanders, was the
eldest son of George G. Dalgarno and
of his wife Alice Maud Miln, View-
hank, Arbroath. "When at Dollar
Academy he helonged to the Cadet
Corps, but on returning to Arbroath
he joined the Volunteer Force. In
August 1917, after having worked
for four months as an engineer at
Messrs Keith & Blackmail's, he be-
came, at the age of eighteen, a pri-
vate in the 4th Gordon Highlanders.
He was trained at Tillicoultry, Can-
terbury and Colchester, went over to
France in March 1918, and served
there for four months. He was in
the Rheims district on the 21st of
July, and a comrade-in-arms tells
how, after a long thirst, they had got
a supply of water ; Private Dalgarno
started off with water bottles to sup-
ply the thirsty men, and was killed
by gun-fire in the forest near
Epernay. He is buried in St Imoges
Cemetery. His platoon commander,
writing of him, said: — "Eric has
always held such a high place in my
estimation, and he will be a dis-
tinct loss to the platoon. He was so

Signaller Alec. Anderson, 3rd
Worcestershire Regiment, 17 St
Vigeans Road, Arbroath, was the son
of David Lundie Anderson, coffee
planter, and of his wife Louisa
Krasse, Kandy, Ceylon. He was
twenty-five years of age, and joined
the army in August 1911. He was a
signaller, and took part in the retreat
from Mons. On the 3rd of June
1918 he died of wounds in the Mon-
tigny-sur-Vesle Field Hospital, and
was buried at Rheims.

unassuming and yet did his work so
diligently and without a grumble.
1 Grousing ' is a privilege in the
army, but I don't think I ever heard
him ' grouse,' no matter how dis-
agreeable the task or how tired he
was." In Private Dalgarno's diary,
which was returned after his death,
he had written against his birthday —
his nineteenth birthday, which was
just three days before he was killed —
" And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods? "

192

GNR. JAMES G. TRAILL, R.F.A.

PTE. CHRISTISON, GORDONS.

Gunner James Gibb Traill, Royal
Field Artillery, was tlie son of David
B. Traill and of his wife Jessie Gibb,
12 John Street, Arbroath. He was
twenty-nine years of age, and un-
married, and before he enlisted was
a machine operator at the Abbey
Leather Works. He joined the local
detachment of the R.F.A. in Novem-
ber 1915, and was drafted to Fra-nce
in February 1916. Gunner Traill died
of wounds at No. 48 Casualty Clear-
ing Station on the 25th of July 1918.

LIEUT. ARNOLD SCOTT, R.S.F.

Lieutenant Arnold Scott, Royal
Scots Fusiliers, was the youngest son
of George Scott, marine engineer,
formerly of Arbroath, and of Mrs
Scott, 1 Wimmarleigh Gardens,
Seven Kings, Essex, and a nephew
of Mrs John Sanderson, Victoria
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
five years of age, and had joined the
London Scottish in August 1914. He
went to France in April 1915, and
served there almost without a break
until he was killed in action on the
9th of June 1918.

Private M'Inrot Christison,
4th Gordon Highlanders, eighteen
years of age, was the son of John
D. Christison and of his wife Annie
Bowen, 26 Fergus Square, Arbroath.
He was a grocer with the High
Street Co-operative Society when he
joined up in January 1918. Private
Christison had been only a few weeks
in France when he was killed in action
on the 23rd of July 1918. His com-
pany officer said that a cousin of Pte.
Christison' s belonging to the Edzell
district had expressed a desire to be
in the same company, and that he
had acceded to the request. On the
23rd of July they were beside each
other, and were both killed by the
bursting of the same shell. Private
Christison had four brothers serving.

LT. J AS. WILSON, CAMERONS.

Lieutenant James Wilson,
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,
twenty-five years of age, was the son
of Thomas Wilson, Dalhousie Place,
Arbroath. He died in Colchester
Military Hospital on the 12th of
July 1918.

193

PTE. T. W. SIMPSON, R.A.M.C. PTE. JOHN NAPIER. GORDONS.

Private Thomas William Simp-
son, Royal Army Medical Corps,
twenty-six years of age, was the fifth
son of James Simpson and of his wife
Emma M'Donald, Broughty Ferry.
Before enlisting in May 1916 he was
assisting his father, a well-known
Arbroathian, in his printing office in
Broughty Ferry. He served in France
for fourteen months, and while en-
gaged in field ambulance work he was
killed by a shell near Soissons on the
24th of July 1918. Private Simpson
had four brothers on service. A poem
to his memory, by William Birrell,
author of " War and Patriotic
Poems," was published in the
Broughty Ferry " Guide."

CPL. TOM NEILSON, A.S.C.

Corporal Tom Neilson, Motor
Transport, Army Service Corps,
attached to the Royal Field Artillery,
Maulesbank Cottage, Carnoustie,
had been employed as gardener and
chauffeur by Mr Alexander Duncan,
Maulesbank. Corporal Neilson had
been in France for two years when
he was killed in action.

Private John Christie Napier,
7th Gordon Highlanders, eighteen
years of age, was the son of John
Stewart Napier and of his wife
Dorothy Christie, 52 St Vigeans
Road, Arbroath. He was a joiner
with Mr Simpson, St Mary Street,
when he volunteered for service in
1916, but lie was not called up till
August 1917. Private Napier went
to France to join his battalion, a unit
of the 51st Division, and he was killed
in action on the 20th of July 1918 near
Marfaux, in the forest of Rheims.

PTE. FRANK NAIRN, GORDONS.

Private Frank F. Nairn,
Gordons, was the youngest son of A.
T. Nairn, Albert Lodge, Barry Road.
Carnoustie. Before enlistment he
was apprenticed to Messrs Hender-
son & Logie, C.A., Dundee. He was
very popular in local junior sporting
circles, and was a well-known mem-
ber of the Carnoustie Links Tennis
Courts. He joined the army in 1917
and was posted missing and pre-
sumed killed on the 9th of April
1918.

194

PTE. JOHN MILNE, GORDONS.

SGT. FORSYTH. BLACK WATCH.

Private John Findlay Stuart
Milne, 7th Gordon Highlanders,
eighteen years of age, was the son of
George Milne, 39 Dishland Street,
Arbroath. He was a farm servant at
Kirkton of Inverkeilor when he
joined the 7th Gordon Highlanders
in December 1917. After six months'
training Private Milne was drafted
to France, and had been there only
seven weeks when he died of wounds
in July 1918. His brother, Private
George Milne, was taken prisoner
and died of wounds just three months
before, and yet another brother
served with the colours.

PTE. WM. STORMONTH, B.W.

Private William Stormonth,
Black Watch, nineteen years of age,
was the son of David Stormonth, 6
Reform Street, Montrose. He was
a native of Arbroath, his father hav-
ing been a traveller with Messrs D.
Thornton & Son. Private Stor-
month was a draper in Montrose. He
was wounded and taken prisoner in
March 1918, and died in a German
hospital four days afterwards.

Sergeant John Forsyth, 5th
Black Watch, twenty-two years of
age was the eldest son of Alexander
Forsyth, 10 Hannah Street, Ar-
broath. Before enlisting he was a
clerk in the office of Messrs James
Keith & Blackman Co. Ltd., and was
a well-known junior footballer and
cricketer. He joined the 5th Black
Watch in September 1914, and was
drafted to France three months
later. During his long service at the
front Sergeant Forsyth saw much
stiff fighting, and had many narrow
escapes, and he was gassed in Novem-
ber 1917. He was with his company
in an attack against a strong enemy
position when he was wounded, and
died two days afterwards, on the
30th of July 1918. Sergeant For-
syth's younger brother was serving
in the navy.

PTE. J. BAIN, BLACK WATCH.

Private John Bain, Black Watch,
21 Park Street, Arbroath, was a
miner by trade. He served in
France, and was killed in action on
the 19th of July 1918.

195

DVR. NORMAN A. ROBB, R.F.A.

PTE. WM. STEWART, GORDONS.

Driver Norman A. W. Robb,
Royal Field Artillery, was the young-
est son of Mrs Robb, 17 Panmure
Street, Arbroath. He was twenty-
two years of age, unmarried, and was
a lorryman in the employment of
Messrs Wordie & Company, railway
contractors. Driver Robb was a

Territorial in the local battery of the
R.F.A., and when war broke out he
went to France in March 1915, being
one of the first contingent of Forfar-
shire R.F.A. Territorials to go from
Arbroath. He served in France
until the 27th of April 1918, when he
was dangerously wounded in the
back. He was treated for some
months in Calais, and afterwards
taken to the Ontario Military Hospi-
tal at Orpington in Kent, where he
died on the 7th of August 1918. He
was buried in the Eastern Cemetery,
Arbroath, with full military honours.
Driver Robb had three brothers who
served at the front — Private F. B.
Robb, Machine Gun Corps, attached
to the Royal Scots Greys ; Private
William Robb, Machine Gun Corps,
and Private Joseph R-obb, Army
Service Corps.

Private William Stewart, 4th
Gordon Highlanders, twenty-four
years of age, was the son of Robert
Stewart, North Tarry, Arbroath. He
was a ploughman at Invergowrie
when he enlisted in December 1917.
After several months training he
was drafted to France. He was woun-
ded in action on the 23rd of July, and
died at No. 10 General Hospital,
Rouen, on the 5th of August 1918.

SGT. C. WHITLAW, M.M., R.E

Sergeant Charles Y. M. Whit-
law, M.M., Special Company, Royal
Engineers, twenty-four years of age,
was the youngest son of James Whit-
law, Glasgow, formerly of Arbroath.
Before joining the army in August
1914 he was an apprentice engineer
at Possilpark, Glasgow. He went to
France in May 1915 with the Scot-
tish Rifles, but was afterwards trans-
ferred, and was attached to the
Royal Engineers when in 1917 he was
awarded the Military Medal for gal-
lantry in the field. Sergeant Whit-
law was killed in action in France on
the 23rd of July 1918.

196

PTE.

MARR. CANADIANS.

PTE. GEO. STOTT, CANADIANS,

Private Gobdon Mark, Canadian
Scottish, was the son of John Marr,
Westhaven Farm, Carnoustie. He
was twenty-seven years of age, and
unmarried. He had left Carnoustie
for Canada in 1910, and was settled
at Calgary, Alberta, when he joined
the Canadian Scottish in June 1915.
He came overseas, and served in
France, where he was mortally
wounded at Amiens on the 8th of
August 1918. In this gallant charge,
in which the 16th Canadian Battalion
covered itself with glory, Private
Marr was in the front line, and, as
his officer said, was fearlessly aggres-
sive, and an example to his comrades.
He also added that there was no
doubt Private Marr would have won
promotion had he lived. Other
letters spoke in high appreciation of
his courage and soldierly qualities : —
" He was a good soldier, and showed
splendid devotion to duty. His loss
is keenly felt by all ranks of his com-
pany, and especially by his platoon
commander, with whom he was de-
servedly most popular. His bat-
talion mourns in him one of its best
and most fearless men."

Private George Murray Stott,
43rd Battalion Canadian Camerons,
twenty-nine years of age, was the
son of James Stott, 5 St Vigeans
Road, Arbroath. He had gone to
Canada, and was employed as a
labourer in Winnipeg when he joined
the army in July 1915. He served
for three years, and was reported
wounded and missing on the 16th of
August 1918. Later it was pre-
sumed that he died on that date at
Fresnoy-les-Roye.

PTE. JOHN M. GRAY, A.I.F.

Private John M. Gray, 46th Bat-
talion, Australian Imperial Force,
thirty-two years of age, was the son
of George Gray, 107 Strathmartine
Road, Dundee, and grandson of John
Gray, painter, Fergus Street, Ar-
broath. He was a plasterer with Mr
Donald, Arbroath , and afterwards
went to Australia. He had served for
two and a half years when he was
wounded, and died in No. 2 Eastern
Hospital, Brighton, on the 13th of
April 1918. His brother was killed
in the fighting at Gallipoli.

197

L-CPL. CHRISTIE, LANCS. FUS. PTE. WM. A. BRUCE, K.O.S.B.

Lance - Corporal Alexander
Christie, 15th Battalion, Lanca-
shire Fusiliers, was the son of Alex-
ander Christie, gas collector, and of
his wife Margaret Potter, 8 Carnegie
Street, Arbroath. He was thirty

years of age and had served his ap-
prenticeship as a chemist with Mr
D. H. Burn. Before enlisting he was
chief dispenser in one of Messrs
Boots' shops in Eastbourne. He
joined up in November 1916 as a
private in the Queen's Regiment, the
2nd Regiment of Foot. Previous to
crossing to France in January 1917
he was transferred to the 15th Lanca-
shire Fusiliers, and later was pro-
moted to Lance-Corporal rank, and
was given charge of the Lewis Gun
Section of his company. His battalion
took part in most of the heavy fight-
ing between Nieuport, on the coast,
and St Quentin. He had been twice
wounded with shrapnel in previous
engagements, and he was again
wounded at Bouchoir just after going
over the top. This time, unfortun-
ately, the shrapnel wounds were
fatal, and he died almost at once
on the 10th of August 1918.

Private William Alexander
Bruce, 2nd King's Own Scottish
Borderers, 805 Garscube Road,
Glasgow, was the son of John Bruce
and of his wife Margaret Reid, 21
Seamore Street, Glasgow, both for-
merly of Arbroath. He was twenty-
eight years of age, had married Isa-
bella Gunn, and left one son. He
was a motorman on the Glasgow
Tramways when he joined the 3rd
Royal Scots in July 1917. Later he
was transferred, drafted to France
in October, thence to Italy, and
returned to France in the spring of
1918. He had not fully recovered
from the effects of gas poisoning
when on the 26th of August 1918 he
was wounded by machine gun fire
and died the following day in the
56th Casualty Clearing Station. He
was buried in the military cemetery
at Bagueux, near Arras.

PTE. J. KEIR, CANADIANS.

Private John Keir, Canadians,
son of Mr and Mrs Keir, Thistle
Cottage, Friockheim, was killed in
action in 1918.

198

PTE.

GREEN, CAMERONS

2nd-LT. W. L. STORMONT, R.F.A.

Peivate Albert Green, Service
Battalion, 11th Cameron High-
landers, lived at 6 Taymouth Terrace,
Carnoustie. He married Annie

Esplin and left two sons and a
daughter. He was employed in the
works department of the Carnoustie
Town Council when he enlisted in the
9th Black Watch in July 1915. Pri-
vate Green was gassed in April 1916,
and after recovering was transferred
to a Labour Battalion, and later to
the Camerons. He was killed in
France on the 29th of August 1918.

LT. VAL. SCROGGIE. A. & S. H.

Lieutenant Valentine Scroggie,
14th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, son of E. Scroggie, Dundee
Street, Carnoustie, was a well-known
golfer. He enlisted in June 1915,
served in France, and received his
commission in July 1918. He was
killed in action on the 4th of No-
vember. He had two brothers with
the colours, Dr Scroggie, in the
R.A.M.C., who was mentioned in
despatches, and Harold H. Scroggie,
who was wounded at Gaza.

Second-Lietttenant W. L. Stor-
mont, 2nd Forfarshire Battery,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-one
years of age, was the fourth son cf
David Stormont, 1 Shore, Arbroath.
He was an apprentice engineer with
Messrs James Keith & Blackmail
Co., Ltd., when he joined the army,
immediately after the outbreak of
war. He quickly gained. the rank of
sergeant, and in January 1918 he
received his commission, and went
to France three months later, being
attached to the 81st Battery. On
the 31st of August 1918 he was
killed instantaneously by a shell
splinter near Fontaine les Croisilles.
He was buried in St Martin Calvaire
Cemetery, south-east of Arras. His
brother officers, writing of his death,
spoke very highly of his qualities as
a soldier and a man, saying he was
a most efficient officer, and held in
high respect by all.

SEAMAN BOWDLER. R.N.D.

Able-Seaman
Naval Division,
Carnoustie, was

Bowdler, Royal
41 Yeaman Street,
killed in 1918.

199

CPL.-FAR. W. HUTTON, R.G.A. L-CPL. D. K. LINDSAY, K.O.S.B.

Corporal - Farrier William

Hutton, Royal Garrison Artillery,
11 Fergus Square Arbroath, was the
son of Mrs Hutton, 22 Rossie Street.
He was twenty-nine years of age,
had married Eliza Wyllie; and left
one son and one daughter. Before
the war he was a blacksmith with Mr
Donald M'Glashan, Dickfield Street,
who also fell while serving in the
army. Corporal Hutton joined the
1st Forfarshire Battery of the Royal
Field Artillery in 1907 as a gunner.
When war broke out he went to
France with the local battery but was
transferred to the R.G.A. On the
2nd of September 1918 he was hit by
a splinter from a bomb dropped on
the road as he was going up to the
guns with ammunition, and he died
on the way to the dressing station.
In writing to his wife, the chaplain
said : — "Many times I have met your
husband at my services ; he was a
hero, and has given his life for the
cause of righteousness and freedom.
Though his name may never appear
in official lists of honours, he has won
the honour and respect of his com-
rades by his undaunted courage."

Lance Corporal Douglas Kidd
Lindsay, 5th King's Own Scottish
Borderers, was the youngest son of
Thomas and Isabella Lindsay, 175
High Street, Arbroath. He was
nineteen years of age, and previous
to entering the army was a clerk in
the office of the Millgate Tannery.
He joined the Highland Light In-
fantry in February 1917, and served
with them in France. In June 1918
he was transferred, and was attached
to the K.O.S.B. until the time of
his death on the 1st of September.
He was killed by a shell near Mount
Kemmel whilst acting as " No. 1 "
of a Lewis Gun team.

SGT. JOSEPH GIBSON, R.F.A.

Sergeant Joseph Gibson, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty years of age,
son of James Gibson, mason, 42
Leonard Street, Arbroath, was at
Messrs Douglas Fraser & Sons' when
he joined the local battery of the
R.F.A. After having served in
France for seventeen months he died
of wounds at No. 1 Casualty Clearing
Station on the 4th September 1918.

200

PTE. JAS. MATTHEW, H.L.

PTE. BENSON, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Matthew, 9th
Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow
Highlanders) was the second son of
George Matthew and of his wife Mar-
garet Paterson, 12 Abbot Street,
Arbroath. He was thirty-one years
of age, unmarried, and was a waiter
in Glasgow when he joined the 9th
H.L.I. Private Matthew was

stationed in England for more than
a year, and after having been only
two months in France he was killed
in action at Arras on the 20th of
May 1917. He was of a cheery dis-
position and was very popular with
all who knew him.

SEAMAN ALEX. PETRIE, R.N.R.

Seaman Alexander Petrie, Royal
Naval Reserve, 43 St Mary Street,
Arbroath, was fifty-seven years of
age. He left a widow and five of a
family. He had been at sea in his
youth, but was working at Dens
Iron Works when the volunteered in
August 1915. On the 3rd of April
1917, when serving on H.M.S.
Drifter, he was accidentally drowned
in Buckie Harbour.

Private Harry Benson, 5th Black
Watch, twenty-four years of age,
was the son of William Benson, 53
West Grimsby, Arbroath. He was
assisting his father as a general
dealer when he joined the army in
February 1915. After enlisting at
Forfar he was sent to Hawick,
Glasgow, Dundee, Wormit, Bridge of
Earn, and then across to France. He
was wounded there, and on recovery
served in Egypt and Palestine, and
again returned to France. Five
months later he was killed in action
on the 2nd of September 1918, and
was buried at Copse Trench British
Cemetery, near Peronne. His CO.
paid high tribute to his gallantry.

L-CPL. GEO. ROBERTS, B.W.

Lance-Corporal George Roberts,
Black Watch, Carnoustie, brother of
Mrs Gibson, 53 Millar Street, was
employed as a baker with Mr T. B.
Cunningham before enlisting in
October 1916. He served in France,
had been gassed and wounded at
Arras, and was killed in action in
August 1918.

201

PTE. ALLAN MANN. GORDONS.

DVR. EDWARD DRURY, A.S.C.

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Private Allan B. Mann, 1st
Gordon Highlanders, nineteen years
of age, was the son of Mrs John
Mann, 8 Shore, Arbroath. He was
a bleacher at Elliot when he enlisted
in the Black Watch in May 1917,
being afterwards transferred. After
training at Bridge of Allan and
Cromer, he was drafted to France,
where he served for seven months. At
the end of August 1918 he was badly
wounded in an action which paved
the way for a big advance. Private
Mann was taken to No. 45 Casualty
Clearing Station, where everything
humanly possible was done to save
him, but he succumbed on the 3rd of
September, and was buried in the
Military Cemetery at Bac du Sud.
He was the youngest of five
brothers serving with the colours.

CPL. MITCHELL, ROYAL SOOTS.

Corporal James Mitchell, Royal
Scots, twenty-one years of age, was
the son of James Mitchell, Middle-
gate, Friockheim. He was reported
missing on the 25th of April 1918,
and presumed killed on that date.

Driver Edward Gordon Drury,
Army Service Corps, twenty-two
years of age, was the son of William
Smith Drury and of his wife Georgina
Brown, 98 Cumming Drive, Mount
Florida, Glasgow. Before the war
he was an engineer with Messrs J.
H. Carruther.s, Glasgow. He joined
the l/2nd Lowland Field Ambulance,
B.A.M.C. (T.F.), in February 1913,
and was called up on the 5th of
August 1914. For five months he
was training recruits at Yorkhill,
Glasgow, and later was at Dunferm-
line. In May 1915 he went to
Egypt and Palestine, where he took
part in many engagements and had
many trying experiences. He was
afterwards drafted to France and
transferred in 1916. On the 4th of
September 1918 the camp was being
heavily shelled, and Driver Drury,
just having left his horses, was going
to the cookhouse for tea when he was
struck in the back by a large piece of
shell, which killed him instan-
taneously. The chaplain said: — "He
was a gallant and most lovable boy."
Driver Drury' s brother was killed
the same year.

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PTE. T. CUTHILL, HAMPS. RGT.

SAPPER ALEX. MILLER. R.E.

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Private Thomas Ctjthill, 12th
Hampshire Regiment, 12 Abbot
Street, was the son of James Cuthill,
Arbroath. He was twenty-six years
of age, had married Elizabeth
Matthew, and left one daughter. He
was a tailor with Mr James Peter,
and was well-known as a junior foot-
baller. He joined the Scottish Horse
in November 1915, and was after-
wards transferred. After serving for
a year in England he was drafted to
Salonica, where he remained nearly
two years before being sent to
France. He had been in France only
three weeks when, on the 4th of
September 1918, he was posted as
missing, and later was officially re-
ported killed in action on that date.

SGT. GEORGE BUICK, R.G.A.

Sergeant George Buick, Royal
Garrison Artillery, was the son of
George Buick, shoemaker, Glasgow.
He was married and left one child.
He served his apprenticeship as a
dentist with Mr Davie, Arbroath, and
afterwards practised in Bristol. He
was killed on the 24th of April 1918.

Sapper Alexander M'Lean Miller,
Royal Engineers, 2 Fallside Road,
Bothwell, was the son-in-law of
Andrew Rennie, 58 Helen Street, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-two years of
age and left one daughter. In March
1915 he joined the Royal Scots, was
wounded in September, and went to
Salonica in 1916, where he was at-
tached to the Royal Engineers. On
the 21st of September 1918 he died of
pneumonia in a hospital in Salonica.

SGT. D. MACPHERSON, S.H.

Sergeant Donald Macpherson,
Scottish Horse, attached to the
Black Watch, was a native of Dun-
doe. He was on the staff of the
" Dundee Courier," and had pre-
viously represented that paper in Ar-
broath, where he had made many
friends, and was a prominent mem-
ber of the Miniature Rifle Club.
When war was declared he volun-
teered for service, took part in the
Dardanelles campaign, and was in-
valided home. On his recovery he
went to France, and was killed by a
shell on the 6th of October 1918.

203

GNR. DAVID MUNRO, R.F.A.

PTE. D. MACKAY. ROYAL SCOTS.

Gu nner David MacDougall
Munbo, Royal Field Artillery, was the
son of Alexander Munro and of his
wife Margaret MacDougall, Mains cf
Balcathie, Arbroath. He was twenty-
one years of age, and at the time of
joining the army, in April 1915, he
was a clerk at Stanley Mill. He went
through three and a half years' ser-
vice in this country and in France.
When in action on the 14th of Sep-
tember 1918 a shell dropped close to
him, and he was killed instan-
taneously by the explosion. His
lieutenant, waiting of his death,
said : — "We are all very sorry to lose
him, as he was such a bright lad, and
always did his task well and cheer-
fully. He was one of my best gunners,
and we shall all feel the loss of such
an excellent man." The Rev. W. W.
Scotland, Arbirlot, referring to
Gunner Munro, said: — "He was a
young man of attractive disposition
and high character. In the early days
of the war he joined the colours volun-
tarily, and the sense of duty that
influenced him in the beginning was
with him till the ,end." His brother
was killed the following month.

Private Donald Mackay, Boyal
Scots, was the son of Norman Mac-
kay, blacksmith, 4 Lochland Street,
Arbroath. He was thirty-one years
of age, and had married Jane Nicoll,
and left one son. Before joining the
3rd Royal Scots in 1916 Private
Mackay was in the service of the
Pearl Assurance Co. at Arbroath. He
went to France with the 2nd Royal
Scots in December, and was invalided
home in June 1917. In October he
was drafted to Palestine with the 4th
Battalion of the same Regiment, and
returned to France in April 1918. He
served there until the 22nd of Sep-
tember, when he was killed in action
at Moeuvres, in the Cambrai sector.
His sergeant, writing of him, said : —
" He was a most popular chap, well
liked, and a noble soldier."

PTE. WM. PATON, GORDONS.

Pbivate William Paton, Gordon
Highlanders, thirty-one years of age,
was the eldest son of William Paton ,
Inverpeffer, Carnoustie. He died at
St Luke's Hospital, Halifax, on the
loth of October 1918.

204

PTE. ANDREW ROSS, R.S.F.

PTE. J. BINNIE. SCOTS GUARDS.

Private Andrew Ross, Royal
Scots Fusiliers, 65 River Street,
Brechin, was the son of Andrew Ross,
23 Church Street, Arbroath. He was
forty-three years of age, had married
Helen Taylor Laurence Paton, and
left three sons. He was employed at
the East Mill, Brechin. In Arbroath
hs was a well-known bowler, having
won the Macdonald Cup three times
and the Ross Cup twice. He joined
the Black Watch in 1914, but was
transferred in 1917. In February
1918 he went to France, and was
killed in action on th? 23rd of Septeni-
ber. The chaplain gave him high
praise as a good soldier and comrade.

L-CPL. MITCHELL, W. RIDING.

Lance-Corporal David A. Mit-
chell, Duke of Wellington's Regi-
ment, was the only son of Charles
Mitchell, 21 Carnegie Street, Ar-
hroath. He was greatly respected
in his profession as teacher at Keptie
School, and was match secretary of
the Arbroath Amateur Football Club.
He was presumed killed in France on
the 10th of April 1918.

Private James Binnie, Scots
Guards, twenty-four years of age,
was the second son of William Binnie,
J. P., farm manager, and of his wife
Margaret Thomson, Crofts, Car-
myllie. He was employed as a farm
servant at Redcastle, Inverkeilor,
when he joined Kitchener's Army in
September 1914 as a private in the
Scots Guards. After six months'
training in this country, he was
drafted to France early in 1915. He
went through the battle of Loos, and
was wounded in October. He was in-
valided home, and on his recovery a
year afterwards he returned to
France and was again wounded and
sent home. Private Binnie went to
France for the third time in October
1917, and for some time was attached
to the Machine Gun Section. While
serving in a trench mortar battery of
the 2nd Guards' Brigade he was killed
by a violent explosion of their
ammunition at the Canal du Nord on
the 27th of September 1918. His cap-
tain said he was extremely popular
with everyone in the company, and
was always cheerful and hard work-
ing.

205

BDR. WILLIAM DICKSON. R.F.A.

L-CPL. J. MICHIE. SEAFORTHS.

Bombardier William Dickson,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-seven
years of age, was the grandson of
William Shillito, 22 Jamieson Street,
Arbroath. Before joining the colours
he was employed as a compositor in
the "Arbroath Guide" Office, where
his forceful character, his capable
workmanship, and his energy were
greatly appreciated. He entered the
army in February 1915 as a gunner in
A Battery, 170th Brigade, R.F.A. ,
and the sterling qualities which lead
to success in civil life made him an
enthusiastic and most efficient sol-
dier. For two years he went through
much heavy fighting in France. On
the day before he was to have come
home on leave he was fatally wounded
and died after being a few hours in
hospital, on the 28th* of September
1918. He was buried in La Kreule
Cemetery. His major wrote: — "The
death of Bombardier Dickson has
caused a big gap in the ranks of the
battery. He was a man in whom all
the officers had the greatest faith,
and he was very popular amongst the
men. The battery has lost a man it
could ill afford to lose."

Lance-Corporal John L. A.
Michie, 7th Seaforth Highlanders,
nineteen years of age, was the eldest
son of James M. B. Michie and of his
wife Janet Baxter Anderson, 18
Church Street, Arbroath. He was
an apprentice joiner with Messrs J.
& R. W. Siev wright and a student at
Dundee Technical College, and had a
promising career in front of him.
He joined the Seaforth Highlanders
as a private, and was later promoted
to lance-corporal rank. When serving
in France he was severely wounded
by shrapnel in both legs on the 21st
of September 1918. In the hope of
saving his life one leg was amputated,
but Lance-Corporal Michie succumbed
to his wounds, and died three days
later at a casualty clearing station.

PTE. W. PHLLIP, BLACK WATCH

Private William Philip, Black
Watch, twenty-one years of age, was
the son of David Philip, Tooty, Car-
myllie. He was a farm servant in
the district, enlisted in 1917, and had
been only a few weeks in France when
he was killed in the spring of 1918.

206

CPL. CHARLES KYDD, M.G.C.

PTE. GEO. OAKLEY, 79th T.M.B.

Corporal Charles W. Kydd,
Machine Gun Corps, twenty-eight
years of age, was the son of
George and Mary Ann Kydd, Elliot,
near Arbroath. He had gone to
America, but returned to enlist in a
home regiment in March 1915. He
joined the H. L. 1., but was trans-
ferred to the Machine Gun Corps of
the 29th Battalion. For three years
ht did his part in France as a
machine gunner, and " well and hard
h>; fought." A shell bursting within
a few yards killed him on the 30th of
September 1918, and he was buried
close to the village of Ghelve, near
Menin. His lieutenant wrote of him
as a very good n.c.o., whom he was
extremely sorry to lose.

PTE. KENNETH MORRIS, H.L.I.

Private Kenneth David Morris,
Highland Light Infantry, was the
third son of Mr and Mrs Morris,
Mainhouse Lodge, Kelso, and grand-
son of George Dorward, Friockheim.
He died of acute pneumonia at
Auxiliary Hospital, Kinghorn Fife,
on the 25th of October 1918.

Private George Oae:ley, 79th
Trench Mortar Battery, 21 Park
Street, Arbroath, was the fourth son
of David Oakley, 97 Bouverie Street,
Port Glasgow, formerly of Arbroath.
He was thirty-one years of age, and
had married Jessie Watt, and left one
son and two daughters. He had
wrought at Westburn Foundry, but
was at Gourock Ropework when he
joined the A. & S. H. in October 1914.
After being drafted from Greenock to
Hawick and Broughty Ferry, he was
in Dundee guarding the Tay Bridge.
Thence he was sent to Portobello, and
to Deal, and from there to guard the
prisoners at Stobs Camp. He was
then transferred to the Royal Defence
Corps, and served at Rosyth and
Ripon. In October 1917 he volun-
teered for foreign service, and was
wounded in France in January 1918.
He fell in action on the 1st of October,
and was buried in Belleglise Ceme-
tery on the St Quentin Canal. His
captain wrote that he was an "excel-
lent soldier and most popular both
with the officers and men." Four
brothers and two brothers-in-law also
served with the colours.

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PTE. A. MITCHELL, GORDONS.

PTE. DUTHIE, BLACK WATCH.

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Private Alexander Mitchell, 1st
Gordon Highlanders, eighteen years
of age, was the son of Private Alex-
ander Mitchell, Black Watch, and of
his wife Margaret Tosh, 25 John
Street, Arbroath. He was a machine-
man at Dens Iron Works when he
enlisted in March 1918. During an
attack on a village, the men were going
over a ridge when very heavy machine
gun fire was opened on them, and
Private Mitchell was hit on the head.
He was sent to 34 Casualty Clearing
Station, and died on the 3rd of
October 1918, and was buried in the
British Cemetery, Grevillers, about
a mile from Bapaume. His
chaplain, in writing of him, said: —
" In spite of his youth he lived his
life with us in a manner which did
him credit. He did his duty as a
soldier with a smartness and keen
sense of responsibility and honour
which earned for him the esteem and
respect of his officers and fellow-
comrades, while he had qualities of
heart which .endeared him to us all.
He showed a distinctive courage in
the face of danger." Private Mit-
chell's father was a prisoner of war.

Private William Duthie, 7th
Black Watch, was the son of Robert
Duthie, and of his wife Mary
Carnegie, Parkhill Mains, Arbroath.
He was twenty-four years of age and
unmarried, and before he went to the
front was a farm servant at Tarry,
St Vigeans. Private Duthie joined
the army in March 1916, was
wounded at Beaumont Hamel in
November, and was invalided home,
returning to France early in 1918.
Private Duthie was killed in action
on the 1st October 1918, and was
buried in Flanders, near the River
Lys, not far from Courtrai.

W.O. RONALD W. FALCONER,

Senior Wireless Operator
Ronald Walter Falconer, twenty
years of age, was the son of Daniel
Falconer,, currier, and of his wife
Henrietta Smart, 18 Brechin Road,
Arbroath. He was an apprentice
printer and entered the Marconi
Service in 1915. He was drowned on
the 16th of April 1918 when serving
on s.s. Ladogo, which was lost
through enemy action.

208

L-CPL. A. TAYLOR. CAMERONS.

LIEUT. C. W. THOMSON, R.N.R.

Lance-Corporal Arthur David-
son Taylor, 5th Cameron High-
landers, twenty years of age, was the
grandson of David Taylor, Lnnan
Mill, Inverkeilor. He was a plough-
man at Leysmill when he enlisted in
June 1917. After three months'
training at Invergordon he was
drafted to France, where he was three
times wounded and gassed. On the
1st of October 1918, Lance-Corporal
Taylor died of wounds at Potyes
Chateau Dressing Station, and was
buried in the cemetery at Potyes.
His Commanding Officer wrote : —
" He was in charge of a Lewis gun
section, and was wounded by a sniper
on the 28th of September, and lived
three days. He was a very brave
and able soldier, and very popular
amongst his comrades."

L-CPL. P. CARMICHAEL, R.S.F.

Lance - Corporal Peter Car-
michael, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was
the only son of John Carmichael, at
one time gardener at Rosely, Ar-
broath. He was killed in action on
the 25th of October 1918.

Lieutenant Charles Wallace
Thomson, Royal Naval Reserve, 4
Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, was the
youngest son of Captain John Thom-
son, Merfield, Victoria Street, Ar-
broath. He was thirty-two years of
age, and married Nora Moody. After
serving his apprenticeship on one of
the Loch Line Shipping Co. vessels,
he entered the service of the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Co., and rose to
the rank of chief officer. He was on
the R.M.S. Petoria when it was cap-
tured by a German raider, and was
kept a prisoner on board the raider
for six weeks, and saw many stirring
scenes connected with the sinking of
British merchantmen. He was landed
in the U.S.A., and before release, was
compelled to promise that he would
not take up arms against Germany.
He had no hestiation, however, in
cancelling his enforced pledge, and he
received a commission in the R.N.E .,
and served for two years on H.M.S.
Edgar, taking part in eighty actions
at the Dardanelles. He was appointed
Chief Shipping Controller at Syra-
cuse, and he died of enteric fever at
Malta on the 4th of October 1918.

209

LIEUT. T. KEILLOR, M.C., A.I.F.

PTE. J. SMART, BLACK WATCH.

Lieutenant Thomas Keillor,
M.C., Australian Imperial Force, 6
Payneham Road, St Peters, Adelaide,
was the son of Alexander Keillor, 35
Millgate Loan, Arbroath. He was
twenty-nine years of age, and had
married Kathleen Wise. He was a
grocer, and had gone to Australia,
where he joined the A.I.F. in 1916.
In 1917 he. was promoted Lieutenant
on the field in France. His record
as a soldier was splendid throughout.
He was awarded the Military Cross
in September 1917, and in June 1918
he won the addition of a bar. The
quotations from General Birdwood's
letters to him on these two occasions
showed how greatly he deserved the
honours, and how much his daring
service was appreciated by the
General. " Dear Keillor, — I write to
congratulate you very heartily upon
the Military Cross which has been
awarded to you. . . . You led your
platoon with great dash and gallan-
try, and when your senior officers
were wounded you took charge of the
company and showed admirable skill
and judgment in the consolidation of
the position, and the organisation of

Private John Smart, 3rd Black
Watch, twenty years of age, was the
only son of George Smart and of his
wife Williamina Grant, 1 Elliot
Street, Arbroath. He was a plough-
man at East Newton when he enlisted
in April 1918, and had been only
fourteen days in France when he was
killed on the 23rd of September.

your defence, and I knowr what a fine
example you set your men by your
soldierly conduct, for which I thank
you." When the bar was awarded:
"As battalion intelligence officer you
went forward with the assaulting
troops right to the objective. On
your way you encountered two Ger-
mans who were in the act of firing
on our men from the rear, and killed
them both single-handed. . . . You
hrought back to headquarters much
valuable information. . . . This neces-
sitated your passing through a very
heavy enemy barrage, which you did
with total disregard for your own
safety. Thanking you so much. . . .
W. N. Birdwood." Lieut. Keillor was
killed on the 3rd of October 1918.

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SERGT. DAVID FELL, R.F.A.

PTE. HENRY GRANT. A. & S. H.

Sergeant - Fitter David Fell,
Royal Field Artillery, 28 Bank Street,
Arbroath, was the youngest son of
James Fell, grocer and spirit mer-
chant, and of his wife Mary M'Bay,
and brother of Mrs Ross, Millgate
Loan. He was twenty-three years of
age, and was a patternmaker at
Dens Iron Works, and a well-known
player in the Parkhead Football
Club. In March 1915 he joined up
as a gunner, was promoted ser-
geant, and went to France, where he
served for eleven months. Sergeant
Fell was gassed early in 1918, and on
the 4th of October he died in No. 56
Casualty Clearing Station of wounds
received in action the day before. He
was buried at Grevillers British
Cemetery, west of Bapaume.

CPL. P. SWANKIE, CANADIANS.

Corporal Peter Swankie, Cana-
dian Expeditionary Force, was the
son of William Swankie, 11 Union
Street East, Arbroath. He died from
wounds in an English hospital, and
was buried on the 17th of November
1918 in Arbroath Western Cemetery.

Private Henry Grant, Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, 7 Murray
Place, Arbroath, was twenty-seven
years of age. He married Mary
Clark, and left a son and a daughter.
He was manager of Shepherd's Dairy
Co., Ltd., in West Port, when he
joined the A. & S. H. in January
1916. When serving in France he
was wounded at Arras in 1917, and on
the 10th of October 1918 he was
posted missing. Later it was offici-
ally reported that he had been killed
in action or died of wounds on or
about that date.

PTE. J AS. HARRIS, CANADIANS.

Private James Alexander Harris,
Canadian Infantry, was the third son
of Captain James Harris, of the
Anchor Line, Langside, Glasgow, and
a grandson of David Harris, Millgate,
Arbroath. He had been in a stock-
broker's office in Glasgow, but was in
America when war broke out. He
joined the colours in 1916, and went
overseas in January 1918. On the
27th of September he was killed in
action in France.

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CAPT. MACGREGOR, M.C., B.W.

CPL. C. E. WITHINGTON, R.D.C.

Captain A. J. Macgregor, M.C.,
13th Black Watch, was the son of
Colonel A. D. Macgregor, Gordon
Highlanders, and of his wife Effie
Lindsay, Melrose, Guernsey. He
was a nephew of D. C. Rutherford
Lindsay Carnegie of Kinblethmont,
near Arbroath. Captain Macgregor
was forty-four years of age, and was
unmarried. He held an important
position in the Imperial Chinese Cus-
toms, China, and took part in the de-
fence of Tientsin. In August 1914
he joined the army as second-lieuten-
ant in the Scottish Horse, and served
on most of the battle fronts. He
went through the Gallipoli campaign,
took part in the fighting in Egypt
and Salonica, and finally was in the
last great advance in France. He
was awarded the Military Cross for
service on the Struma front, when
the Scottish Horse had become the
13th Battalion of the Black Watch.
He was fatally wounded by a shell on
the 6th of October 1918, and died
near Le Catelet two days later. His
Brigadier tersely summed up Captain
Macgregor' s character and work:
" He said little and did much."

Coeporal Charles E. Within gton,
Royal Defence Corps, 6 Dishland
Street, Arbroath, was the son of
Edward Withington, carpenter, and
of his wife Margaret Holgarth, Rose
Cottage, Moorfield Lane, Scarisbrick,
Lancashire. He was forty-seven
years of age, and had married Mary
Smith, and left two sons and one
daughter. He was a compositor at
Mr Hutton's Steam Printing Works,
Ormskirk, when he joined up in June
1915, and was stationed at Tralee.
Corporal Withington was on his way
home on leave on board s.s. Leinster
when that vessel was torpedoed on
the 10th of October 1918. His body
was washed ashore at Kirkcudbright
and buried with full military honours.

GUNNER GEORGE WATT, R.F.A.

Gunnek George Watt, Royal Field
Artillery, was the son of Jonathan
Watt, East Mary Street, Arbroath.
He was a bleacher at Kellyfield when
he joined the Black Watch Terri-
torials. Later he was transferred
to the Machine Gun Section of the
R.F.A. He was killed in July 1918.

212

PTE. J. SUTTIE. DORSET REGT.

CPL. ALEXANDER SMITH, R.F.A.

Private J. Suttie, 6th Dorset
Regiment, 14 Ann Street, Arbroath,
was the son of Andrew Suttie and of
his wife Jane Wilkie, 17 Ernest
Street. He was thirty-seven years of
age, had married Helen Leslie, and
left one son and two daughters. Pri-
vate Suttie was a storekeeper with
Messrs Grant & Son, grain mer-
chants, when he joined the Army
Service Corps in July 1916. He was
afterwards transferred and had been
in France only three weeks when on
the 11th of October 1918, he was killed
in action near Neuilly and was buried
in the River British Cemetery.

Corporal Alexander Smith, Royal
Field Artillery, 53 Green Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of James Smith,
23 Elliot Street. He was twenty-
six years of age, and had married
Janie L. Fettes. Previous to joining
the colours in September 1914 he was
a mechanic at Inch Mill. Except
during a few months when he was in-
valided home for blood poisoning Cor-
poral Smith served continuously at
the front from shortly after the out-
break of war until October 1918. He
was wounded in action at that time
and died on the 12th of the month
at No. 12 General Hospital, Rouen..

SGT. WILLIAM GROVE, A.I.F.

Sergeant William G. Grove,
American Expeditionary Force,
twenty-nine years of age, was the son
of William Grove and of his wife
Browina Stewart, 27 Ward Street,
Orange, New Jersey, both of whom
were natives of Arbroath. He joined
the American army in December 1917,
went to France in June 1918, and died
there of bronchial pneumonia. He
had two brothers with the colours.

PTE. ANDREW REEKIE, B.W.

Private Andrew Reekie, Black
Watch, 9 Kyd Street, Arbroath, was
twenty-five years of age, and was a
native of Perth. He was employed
as a plasterer with Mr Archibald, and
he was well known in Arbroath as a
prominent player in Parkhead Foot-
ball Club. He served with the colours
for about two and a half years, and
died of wounds in France on the 9th
of October 1918.

213

PTE. WM. BEATTS, A. & S. H.

L-CPL. J. ROSS, BLACK WATCH.

Private AVilliam Beatts, 7th
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
was the son of "William Beatts, 35
West Grimsby, Arbroath. He was
twenty years of age, and was a
moulder with Messrs Keith &
Blaekman Co., Ltd. He joined the
A & S. H. in November 1915, and
was drafted to France in February
1916. Private Beatts was singularly
unfortunate. He was wounded four
times, gassed once, and had also suf-
fered from trench fever. He was
killed on the 13th of October 1918 by
an enemy sniper during an advance
on the village of Lieu-Stamand, about
ten miles north-east of Cambrai. His
death was instantaneous and he was
buried close to the field of battle.
His platoon sergeant wrote of him in
most appreciative terms saying that
he was a very good soldier, very
obedient, and gave no trouble. Pri-
vate Beatts had four brothers on ser-
vice— Private Alexander Beatts was
killed in 1915 ; Private James Beatts.
K.O.S.B., was taken prisoner at
Mons ; another brother was in the
Black Watch ; and a fourth in the
navy.

Lance - Corporal James Pirie
Boss, 8th Black Watch, 9 Culloden
Boad, Arbroath, was the eldest son
of Mrs G. Kerr, 12 Barngreen. He
was thirty-four years of age and had
married Agnes W. Butchart. He was
a clicker at the Abbey Leather Works
when he enlisted as a private in No-
vember 1916. After three months'
training he went to France in Feb-
ruary 1917, and was soon afterwards
promoted lance-corporal. On the
14th of October 1918 Lance-Corporal
Boss was killed by machine gun fire
while leading his section to the
attack of an enemy pill-box. His
death was instantaneous, and he was
buried near the place where he fell.

A.B. NORMAN STTTRROCK, R.N.

Able-Seaman Norman Sturrock,
Royal Navy, was a nephew of James
Sturrock, 22 Green Street, Arbroath.
Brought up at Laurencekirk, he
came to Arbroath, and joined the
navy when he was sixteen years of
age. He was drowned at sea in
August 1918, the vessel on which
he was serving being torpedoed.

214

PTE. SMITH, SHER. FORESTERS.

PTE. GEO. K. CLARK, A.E.F.

Private Edwin Henderson Smith,
Sherwood Foresters, 10 Jamieson
Street, Arbroath, was the son of
Peter Smith, farmer, and of his wife
Jane M'Crow, Fallaw, Inverkeilor.
He was twenty-eight years of age,
and had married Elizabeth Robertson.
He was with Mr D. Y. Walker,
butcher, when he enlisted in 1915. He
went to France and served with the
A.S.C. until April 1917, when he was
transferred to the 10th Welsh In-
fantry Regiment, and later to the
Sherwood Foresters. He was woun-
ded in July 1918, and again in
October. On the 17th of October he
died of wounds at No. 12 (St Louis,
U.S.A.) General Hospital, Rouen, and
was buried at St Sever Cemetery.

GNR. DAVID WYLLIE, R.F.A.

Gunner David Wyllie, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-one years of
age, son of William Wyllie, 50 Helen
Street, Arbroath, was employed at
Netherward Works when he joined
the army in June 1915. He was re-
ported missing and presumed killed
on the 28th of June 1918.

Private George Kinloch Clark,
G Coy., 29th Engineers, American
Expeditionary Force, eighteen years
of age, was the son of Joseph M.
Clark and of his wife Jane Grant,
449 Union Avenue, Paterson, New
Jersey, and grandson of James
Grant, Boysaok Muir. He died of
puenmonia on s.s. Adriatic when on
his way to France on the 17th of
October 1918, and was buried in
Everton Cemetery, Liverpool, with
full military honours.

PTE. C. ROBERTSON, H.L.I.

Private Charles Robertson, High-
land Light Infantry, was the son of
William Robertson, 19 West Mary
Street, Arbroath. He married Sarah
Mitt, and left three children. He
was house steward at Stoneyetts
Hosptial, near Glasgow, and enlisted
in June 1917. He died of wounds in
Germany on the 25th of April 1918.

SGT. A. STEWART, AMERICANS.

Sergeant Adam Shand Stewart,
American Infantry, adopted son of
Alexander Stewart, Marywell, was
killed on the 28th of September 1918.

215

PTE. ALEX. M. KYDD, R.S.F.

GNR. E. B. WILLIAMSON. R.F.A.

Private Alexander Murray
Kydd, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was the
son of Mrs Mitchell, 32 St Vigeans
Road, Arbroath. He was twenty-
three years of age, and before he
enlisted was a farm servant at Pan-
lathy. Private Kydd joined the
Royal Scots Fusiliers in January
1915, and after several months'
training he was sent to France. Two
months later he was drafted to
Salonica, where he served for two
years and a half. In June 1918 he
was invalided home for two months,
after which he returned to France.
Private Kydd was killed in action at
Vichte on the 20th of October 1918.
His CO. said he was a splendid and
brave soldier and his work during the
battle was exceptional owing to his
inherent fearlessness and confidence.

PTE. LINDSAY, SCOTS GUARDS.

Private James Lindsay, Scots
Guards, twenty-two years of age,
was a son of James Lindsay, Dun-
nichen, formerly of Salmond's Muir,
Arbroath. He was killed in action
in October 1918.

Gunner Edward B. Williamson,
1st Forfarshire Battery, Royal Field
Artillery, was the son of Alexander
D. Williamson, 59 Kinnaird Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-two years
of age, and was an apprentice
mechanic with Messrs Francis Web-
ster & Sons. He joined the Terri-
torials in February 1912, was mobil-
ised at the outbreak of war, and went
to France in 1915. With the excep-
tion of a short time in Italy, Gunner
Williamson was engaged in the fight-
ing in Northern France and Flan-
ders. He was in No. 4 General Hos-
pital, France, suffering from a
poisoned hand when he took pneu-
monia, and died on the 22nd of Octo-
ber 1918. He was buried in the
Military Cemetery at Etaples.

PTE. SHANKS, BLACK WATCH.

Private Arthur Shanks, Black
Watch twenty-one years of age, was
the son of Thomas Shanks, 1 Rose-
bank, Arbroath. He was a plough-
man at Windyhills when he enlisted
in November 1916. He was killed in
action on the 2nd of September 1918.

216

L-CPL. THOS. MITCHELL, H.L.I. PTE. GRAHAME, BLACK WATCH.

Lance-Corporal Thomas F. Mit-
chell, 9th Highland Light Infantry,
twenty years of age, was the son of
David Mitchell, 18 West Ahbey
Street, Arbroath. He was an ap-
prentice fitter at the Dens Iron
Works when he joined the H.L.I, in
February 1917. He went to France
in November, but in three months
was invalided home with trench feet.
He returned to France in September
1918, and was killed at Engle Fon-
taine on the 24th of October. His
brother, David, was in the A.S.C.

LT. PATRICK J. LAMB, R.G.A.

Lieutenant Patrick James Lamb,
Royal Garrison Artillery, twenty-
three years of age, was the son of
Commissioner Lamb, Salvation
Army, Westgate-on-Sea, formerly of
Friockheim. He had seen much ser-
vice in the western front, and had
been recommended for the Military
Cross for pluck and daring in putting
out a fire on a waggon load of am-
munition. Lieut. Lamb was killed
in action in August 1918. His brother
Alexander was wounded on service.

Private David Grahame, 8th
Black Watch, was the fourth son of
John Grahame, Keptie Gardens, Ar-
broath. He was twenty years of age
and was employed as a farm servant
at Milton of Oraigie, near Dundee.
He enlisted in June 1918, and was
killed in action on the 24th October.

CORPORAL J. A. FORD, R.F.A.

Corporal J. A. Ford, Royal Field
Artillery, was the son of Robert
Ford, 2 Hannah Street, Arbroath.
He was twenty-five years of age and
was a miner at Wellesle|y Pit, Den-
bea.th, Methil. He enlisted in Sep-
tember 1914, went to France in 1915,
and was wounded. Later he w'as
drafted to Salonica, where he was
gassed. He died of pneumonia in
No. 80 Field Ambulance Hospital,
Salonica, on the 17th of November
1918. His section officer wrote that
he was one of his best n.c.o.'s, a
very willing and cheerful worker, and
that though he had died after hos-
tilities had ceased, he had died in
the cause of his country. Two of
his brothers also served in France.

217

L-CPL. M'CONNELL, SEAFORTHS. CPL. J. L. RUTHERFORD, A.S.C.

Lance-Corporal John M'Connell,
M.M., 6th Seaforth Highlanders,
was the son of John M'Connell and
of his wife Mary A. Grant, St
Ruth's, Hamilton Green, Arbroath.
He was twenty-six years of age, un-
married, and was a printer at the
"Herald" Office. He joined the

Territorials in 1909 as a signaller in
the 5th Black Watch, and was
mobilised while in camp on the 4th
of August 1914. After a few months'
training he was drafted to France
in November 1914, and was on
active service for four years, dur-
ing which time he was twice gassed.
In 1917 he was awarded the Military
Medal for his conspicuous gallantry
in repairing telephones under heavy
barrage fire. In March 1918 Lance-
Corporal M'Connell was transferred
to the Seaforths. He was killed on
the 25th of October 1918 at the battle
of Valenciennes, and was buried in
the British Cemetery at Maing. His
Commanding Officer said he was
loved by officers and comrades alike,
and was in every way a gallant sol-
dier, and that his career in the army
was an exceptionally fine one.

Corporal James Lyall Ruther-
ford, Army Service Corps, 6 Stirling
Street, Dundee, was the son of Hector
Rutherford, butcher, and of his wife
Jessie Coutts. He was twenty-five
years of age and unmarried. When
he enlisted he was working with his
brother, D. C. Rutherford, butcher,
Hilltown, Dundee. Corporal Ruther-
ford joined the Army Service Corps
in January 1915. He died on the field
in France on the 24th October 1918.

PTE. ESPLLN, BLACK WATCH.

Private Charles Esplin, Black
Watch, was the son of Charles
Esplin, builder, Gardyne Street,
Friockheim. He was taken prisoner
in March 1918, and since June there
was no news of him until a letter
came from a returned prisoner of
war stating that Private Esplin had
been admitted to hospital, and had
died ten days afterwards. It was
the German War Hospital at Valen-
ciennes where Private Esplin died
on the 20th of July 1918. He was
the only Friockheim prisoner of war
who died in enemy hands.

218

SEAMAN BRUCE, ROYAL NAVY.

PTE. WM. MANN, GORDONS.

Seaman William Bruce, mine-
sweeper deckhand, eighteen years ol
age, was the son of Nicholson Bruce,
fisherman, 11 Marketgate, Arbroath.
He was a labourer in the Millgate Tan-
work when he joined the 5th Black
Watch in November 1915. He served
for nine months, but was discharged
on account of his age — not being
then seventeen. He afterwards offered
his services to the navy, and for six
months was engaged as deckhand on
a minesweeper. He died as the result
of influenza in the Hazel Hospital,
Gosport, on the 25th of October 1918.

GNR. CHAS. SHELSTON, R.F.A.

Gunner Charles Shelston, Royal
Field Artillery, was the son of
Charles Shelston, 43 Wallace Street,
Arbroath. He was twenty-four

years of age, and had been with
Messrs Clark, Oliver, Dewar &
Webster, S.S.C. When he enlisted in
1915 he was a journalist in Dundee.
For a year he was on the staff of the
Army Pay Corps, Perth, but was
afterwards transferred. He died of
wounds on the 18th of October 1918.

Private William Mann, 1st Gor-
don Highlanders, Parkhill Mains,
Arbroath, was the third son of Alex-
ander Mann and of his wife Jane
Lawson, Kinnell. He was nineteen
years of age, and was a ploughman
at Leysmill Farm. Private Mann
joined the Gordons in June 1918. He
died of wounds in No. 3 Casualty
Clearing Station, France, on the 25th
of October 1918. He was the young-
est of three brothers who all fell in
the war. Lance-Corporal John Mann,
K.O.S.B., died from wounds received
at Loos, and Private Alexander
Mann was killed in 1916.

PTE. THOMAS C. SMITH, R.S.

Private Thomas 0. Smith, 16th
Royal Scots, was the son of James
Smith, 12 Marketgate, Arbroath. He
was twenty-four years of age, and
was employed as a bleacher. After
six weeks' service in France he was
wounded, returned to France on his
recovery, and was taken prisoner
shortly afterwards. He died in hos-
pital at Stettin on the 11th of De-
cember 1918.

219

SIG. D. BLACK, M.M., R.F.A. PTE. D. MORRISON, SEAFORTHS.

Signaller David Black, M.M.,
Royal Field Artillery, was the son of
William Black, butcher, and of his
wife Margaret Stewart, Woodview,
Carnoustie, and grandson of John
Stewart, Beechmont, Carnoustie. He
was twenty years of age and was in
his father's business. He joined the
army in June 1917, and went to
France in April 1918. He was awarded
the Military Medal for conspicuous
bravery in keeping communications
intact for two and a half hours dur-
ing heavy enemy gun-fire, and at the
time of a violent thunderstorm. He
was killed in action soon afterwards.
His CO. said: — "He died as he had
lived, nobly and gallantly. At a
time when it was absolutely neces-
sary for the telephone communica-
tion to be complete, he went out and
did his utmost, under shell-fine, to
mend the broken lines. Long before
he had won his decoration (which he
received for very similar work) he
had gradually established himself in
the respect and affection of all his
comrades, while his officers knew
him for a lad who could be relied on
in the hour of danger.

Private Douglas Morrison, Sea-
forth Highlanders, twenty years of
age, was the son of James Morrison
and of his wife Margaret Leckie,
Leader Cottage, Lauder, formerly of
Seaton, Arbroath. He was an iron-
turner at Dens Iron Works when he
joined the 5th Black Watch (T.F.)
the day after war was declared. For
a year and a half he worked in
Motherwell, but being anxious to
go on active service, he was drafted
to France in 1917. He wras wounded
in January 1918. On the 26th of
October, when attacking south of
Valenciennes, he was hit on the head
and died in an ambulance train the
following day. He was buried at

Etaples. Private Morrison had two
brothers serving, Sergeant John and
Sergeant George Morrison.

PTE. JAS. GIBSON, GORDONS.

Private James Gibson, Gordon
Highlanders, eighteen years of age,
was the son of Mrs Gibson, Pan-
mure Terrace, Carnoustie. He en-
listed in November 1917, and was
killed in action in 1918.

220

PTE. J. C. STARK, ROYAL SCOTS.

PTE. JAMES SMITH, GORDONS.

Private James Chalmers Stark,
10th Royal Scots, was the son of
David L. Stark and of his wife Mary
M. Carver, 43 Cairnie Street, Ar-
broath. He was nineteen years of
age, and was a clerk with Messrs
Francis Webster & Sons. He en-
listed in April 1917 in the Fife and
Forfar Yeomanry, arid served with
them for fifteen months. He was
then transferred and sent to Northern
Russia, where he was killed in action
on the 27th of October 1918.

Private James Smith, 9th Gordon
Highlanders, eighteen years of age,
was the eldest son of James Smith
and of his wife Sarah Wood, 34 Kin-
naird Street, Arbroath. He was at
one time a butcher with Mr F. Boath,
but when he enlisted in January
1918 li9 was employed by Mr John
Taylor, Laurencekirk. Private Smith
had been two and a half months in
France when he died of pneumonia,
after influenza, in a hospital in
France on the 30th of October 1918.

PTE. J. SMART, BLACK WATCH.

Private James Smart, 3rd Black
Watch, thirty-nine years of age, was
the son of William Smart, joiner and
cartwTight, Seaton, near Arbroath.
Before he entered the army he was a
joiner at Seaton in partnership with
his brother David. In May 1916 he
joined the 3rd Black Watch and was
trained at Nigg for nine months.
He then sailed for Palestine in Feb-
ruary 1917 and while there took part
in strenuous fighting. In April of
the following year he was transferred
from Egpyt to France, and was woun-

ded at the Canal du Nord on the 2nd
of September. He was taken to a
General Hospital at Eti-etat where he
lay dangerously ill for a month. Per-
mission was given by the War Office
to visit him, and his brother im-
mediately set out for France. He
was too late, however. Private Smart
died on the 5th of October, and his
brother had only the mournful satis-
faction of seeing him laid to rest in
the Cemetery at Etretat, and being
present at his funeral, which was
carried out with military honours,
and attended by American soldiers.

221

GNR. ALEX. MUNRO, R.F.A.

L-CPL. A. STURROCK, M.F.P.

Gunner Alexander Mtjnro, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-four years of
age, was the second son of Alexander
Munro and of his wife Margaret
MacDougall, Mains of Balcathie, Ar-
broath. He was a fireman in the
Newaa-k Sailcloth Co., Port Glasgow,
when he enlisted in April 1917. After
serving for a year and a half, and
having been drafted to Italy, he took
part in the advance on the Piave, and
was killed by gun-fire on the 29th of
October 1918. His major wrote: —
"He is at rest on the banks of the
Piave. He is much missed by his
fellow soldiers. I found him one of
my best gunners, always cheerful and
a splendid worker." Gunner

Munro' s brother, David, was killed
in France a few weeks earlier.

Lance-Corporal Alexander Sttjr-
rock, Military Foot Police, 9 Duke
Street, Arbroath, was the son of
Alexander Sturrock and of his wife
Margaret Tough, Carmyllie. He was
thirty-five years of age, had married
Nellie Smith, and left three sons. He
was at one time a farm servant at
East Seaton, but joined the Arbroath
Burgh Police Force in 1908. He en-
listed in the Military Foot Polioe in
May 1916 and went to France shortly
afterwards. He was due home on leave
when lie had a very severe attack ot
influenza, followed by pneumonia, and
died in a hospital in France on the
27th of October 1918. L.-Cpl. Stur-
i-ock was one of seven Arbroath
policemen who joined the colours,
and was the second to die on service.

PTE. JOHN QUINN, K.O.S.B.

Private John Quinn, King's Own
Scottish Borderers, was the son ot
John Quinn, 108 Harvey Street,
Newcastle, formerly of 41 Ponderlaw,
Arbroath. He was reported missing
on the 25th of April 1918, and was
presumed to have died at that time.

PTE. RAMSAY, CYCLIST CORPS.

Private David Ramsay, Cyclist
Corps, twenty-one years of age, was
the brother of Miss M. Ramsay, Pan-
mure Terrace, Carnoustie. Before he
enlisted in 1915 he was employed in
the Carnoustie Foundry. Private
Ramsay died of wrounds in 1918.

222

GNR. WM. MIDDLETON, R.G.A.

PTE.

L. WATSON, K.O.S.B.

Gunner William Middleton,
Eoyal Garrison Artillery, twenty-
five years of age, was the only son cf
William Middleton, 22 Ann Street,
Arbroath. He was a clerk with
Messrs Wordie & Co., at Arbroath,
and afterwards at Aberdeen. In
May 1915 he vounteered for service
in the Royal Field Artillery, and went
to France in the spring of 1916. He
was wounded in the arm by shrapnel
and invalided home. On returning
to France he was transferred to the
25th Siege Battery of the R.G.A. , in
which he served until he had a severe
attack of influenza, and died in No.
50 Casualty Clearing Station on the
31st of October 1918.

Private David L. Watson, 1st
King's Own Scottish Borderers, was
the brother of Mrs James Anderson,
21 Hill Place, Arbroath. He was
forty-three years of age, and was un-
married. Private Watson was a
shoemaker before he enlisted in Sep-
tember 1914. He was at the landing
of the Forces at Y Beach on Gallipoli
Peninsula, was severely wounded,
and was taken on H.M.S. Goliath to
the hospital at Malta. After recover-
ing he went to France, and was
again wounded, and was wounded for
the third time and gassed in July
1917. Pte. Watson died of pneumonia
in the hospital at Boulogne on the 1st
of November 1918.

PTE. MARK DAVIDSON, N.Z.

Private Mark Davidson, New
Zealand Division, who belonged to
Frioekheim, was killed in action in
France on the 6th of November 1918.
He and his brother, Arthur, had both
left Frioekheim for New Zealand,
and they were amongst the first to
join up when war was declared. They
both made the supreme sacrifice.

PTE. W. MORTIMER, GORDONS.

Private William Mortimer ,
Gordon Highlanders, eighteen years
of age, was the son of George Morti-
mer, 25 Kinloch Street, Carnoustie.
Before enlisting in January 1917 he
was a clerk in the Panmure Works.
He was in France for five weeks, and
had only been a few hours in the
firing line when he was killed in 1918.

223

PTE. WILSON, BLACK WATCH.

GUNNER WM. J. REID, R.G.A.

Private George Wilson, 1st
Black Watch, 52 Marketgate, Ar-
broath, was the son of George Wilson
and of his wife Catherine Young,
Arbroath. He was thirty-four years
of age, and had married Helen
Rennie. When war was declared he
was employed at the Dens Iron
Works, but he was a reservist, and
had not long returned from India,
where he had served for nine years
in the Black Watch. He was mobil-
ised on the 4th of August 1914, and
was taken prisoner on the 29th of
October. After four years of cap-
tivity in Germany he died when free-
dom and victory were within sight.
He was in the prisoner's camp at
Sehneidemuhl, when he had an attack
of influenza, and was admitted to the
hospital on the 29th of October 1918.
His illness developed rapidly, and he
died on the 2nd of November. The
President of the British Help Com-
mittee wrote saying that he was
buried with full military honours, and
he sent the ribbons taken from his
grave as a token of sympathy from all
ranks of the lager, who deeply
mourned the loss of an old comrade.

Gunner William James Reid,
Royal Garrison Artillery, was the
only son of James Reid, 52 Helen
Street, Arbroath. He was thirty-
seven years of age, had married Lily
Ber shell, and left two sons and one
daughter. Before he enlisted in June
1916 he was at the farm of Nether
Careston. He died of pneumonia in
a military hospital in France on the
1st of November 1918.

PTE. H. MARSHALL, D.L.I.

Private Horatio Marshall,
Machine Gun Corps, Durham Light
Infantry, twenty-two years of age,
was the son of Horatio Marshall, 12
Portland Street, Hull, who belonged
to Arbroath. He enlisted in May
1917, and was pre sunned killed ion the'
27th of May 1918. Two elder brothers
were both killed in the war.

PTE. THOS. J. VEY, C.A.M.C.

Private Thomas J. Vey,, Canadian
Army Medical Corps, 26 Helen
Street, Arbroath, died of influenza
in the Military Hospital at Shorn-
cliffe on the 16th of November 1918.

224

PTE. J. CARGILL, SEAFORTHS.

PTE. STURROCK, SCOT. HORSE.

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Private James Moffat Cargill,
4th Seaforth Highlanders, thirty
years of age, was the son of Andrew
Cargill, 26 Seagate, Arbroath. He
enlisted in June 1916, and went. to
France in December. After going
through much heavy fighting he was
taken prisoner at Cambrai in Novem-
ber 1917. On the 1st of November
1918 he died of influenza in a
Brussels hospital, and was buried in
Etterbeck Cemetery.

2nd-LT. MURRAY DICKSON, B.W.

Second-Lieutenant Murray Dick-
son, Black Watch, was the son of
G. Cecil Dickson, M.D., Medical
Officer of Heath for Carnoustie. He
was twenty-seven years of age, was
a. brilliant tennis player, and one of
the most popular young men in Car-
noustie. He went to Calcutta in 1911.
On the outbreak of war he joined the
Calcutta Scottish, but early in 1917
he came home to enlist. In August
1918 he went to France, and fell in
action on the 26th of October. His
brother, Captain Dickson, served in
France and in India.

Private James Sturrock, Scottish
Horse, twenty-five years of age, was
the son of Alexander Sturrock, The
Smithy, St Vigeans, near Arbroath.
He was employed with Mr James A.
Thomson, ironmonger, High Street,
when, in April 1915, he joined the
Scottish Horse, attached to the Black
Watch. He served two years and
nine months abroad in Egypt,
Salonica, and France, and was killed
in action in France on the 4th of
November 1918.

PTE. G. LOW, LONDON REGT.

Private George Low, London
Regiment, was the son of Andrew
Low, Castle Street, Friockheim, who
also served in France. Before joining
the colours Private George Low was
an apprentice architect with Mr
H Gavin, Arbroath. He was a bright
intelligent lad, and he enlisted in
the Gordons when he was seventeen,
but after serving in France for some
time he was discharged because of his
youth. As soon as age permitted he
re-enlisted, and was killed in action
in September 1918.

225

PTE. R. MILNE, BLACK WATCH. L-CPL. WM. LINDSAY, M.F.P.

Private Robert Milne, 10th
Black Watch, was the son of Henry
Milne and of his wife Isabella Esplin,
North Mains, Carmyllie, near Ar-
broath. He was twenty-nine years
of age and was unmarried. He was
employed as a ploughman at Old
Downie when he joined the 10th Black
Watch on the 7th of June 1916. Pri-
vate Milne was for a short time
training in Dunfermline, and was
then drafted with his regiment to
Salonica, where he served for a year
and a half. After a short home leave
he was sent to Ireland, and later
to France. He had been in France
just two months when he was killed
in action on the 4th of November
1918. The chaplain, writing of him
to his father, said : "We have buried
him in a little military cemetery
near the battlefield. We deplore his
loss very much indeed. It will be
all the harder for you, because he
fell when victory and peace were
within sight. His was a great
sacrifice. You have the sure

knowledge that he died doing
his duty — a brave man to the
very end."

Lance-Corporal William Lind-
say, Military Foot Police, 21 John
Street, Arbroath, was the son of
Peter and Ann Lindsay, Westerton,
Stracathro. He was thirty-eight
years of age, had married Catherine
Cargill, and left two sons. Lance-
Corporal Lindsay had sixteen years'
service as a member of the local con-
stabulary, and was a most popular
officer. He joined the M.F.P. in May
1916, and he died of influenza in a
Casualty Clearing Station at Cani-
brai on the 6th of November 1918.
His death was the third gap made by
the war in the Arbroath Police Force.

PTE. COCHRANE, SCOT. RIFLES.

Private William S. Cochrane,
Scottish Rifles, Ashgrove, Carnoustie,
was in a jute factory in Dundee, and
was well-known in Carnoustie as a
tenor vocalist. On the outbreak <i
war he became connected with the
Army Pay Corps at Perth, rising to
the rank of sergeant. In July 1917
he was transferred, and went to
France, where he died of wounds on
the 26th of October 1918.

226

ind-LT. ANDERSON, GREN. GDS.

GNR. C. C M'DONALD, R.F.A.

Second-Lieutenant A. D. Ander-
son, Grenadier Guards, 13 King's
Bench Walk, London, was the son of
T. C. Anderson, formerly of Ar-
broath, and of his wife Catherine
Fraser, Maskeliye, Ceylon. He joined
the Inns of Court O.T.C., but later
went to Mexico, and there his out-
standing ability gained for him the
post of Comptroller of the Eagle Oil
Coy. When war was declared he
volunteered, but it was represented
to him that he was doing more
necessary work by guarding the
supply of oil for the services. In
1917, however, he joined the House-
hold Brigade O.T.C., and on reaching
France was posted to the King's
Coy., 1st Battalion — the first com-
pany of the first regiment in the
British Infantry — a highly coveted
honour. On the 7th of November 1918,
on the way to Maubeuge, he was
killed by a German machine gun at
very close range. His Colonel wrote :
"He was intensely brave during the
fighting, and we had the greatest
admiration for his courage. I am
proud to have known him and to
have had him in my battalion."

Gunner Chas. Croall M'Donald,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-three
years of age, was the son of
Donald M'Donald and of his wife
Mary Ann Croall, East Kirkton, St
Vigeans. He was a barman in the
Lome Bar when he joined the R.F.A.
as a driver in April 1915. He went
to France in May 1918, and served
there and in Belgium until the 8th
of November, when he was killed
while driving an ammunition waggon.
He was buried in Belgium, eight miles
north-east of Courtrai. Gunner
M'Donald' s brother, John, was killed
in action in April 1917. The Rev.
C. E. Duff, in referring to the two
brothers, said: — "It would be diffi-
cult to find two finer young men in
the parish."

PTE. J. RENNIE, ROYAL SCOTS.

Private James Rennie, Royal
Scots, thirty-five years of age, 53
Caldrum Street, Dundee, was a
brother of Mrs Hennan, 14 Smithy
Croft, Arbroath. He enlisted in
February 1915, and was presumed to
have died in April 1918.

227

MAJOR SYDNEY WILSON, R.F.A.

SEAMAN DAVID BROWN, R.N.

Major Sydney Cunningham Wil-
son, Royal Field Artillery, was the
son of John Wilson, Rotomahana,
Arbroath. He was thirty-two years
of age and had married Florence
Lindsay Fairweather, Craigard. He
was in his father's manufacturing
business, and was an enthusiastic
officer in the Forfarshire Battery of
the R.F.A., and had been promoted
Captain. He was mobilised with the
Highland Brigade, and went to
France in the spring of 1915. In
June 1916 he was gazetted Major,
and in 1917 was given command of a
Gloucester Battery, and was ordered
to Italy with it in November. While
on service in the mountains he met
with a serious accident, from which
he never fully recovered. After be-
ing in hospital for eight months, he
was posted to Brighton as Senior
Major in an Officer Cadet Battery,
but had been there only a few weeks
when he took ill and pneumonia set
in. He died on the 9th of November
1918, and was buried in the Western
Cemetery, Arbroa-th, with full mili-
tary honours. The following is an
extract from a letter signed by the

Seaman David Beattie Brown,
Royal Navy, 34 Helen Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of William
Brown, pilot, Arbroath Harbour. He
was thirty-nine years of age, and
was a merchant seaman before join-
ing the navy as a minesweeper in
July 1916. He died of pneumonia in
the 3rd Scottish General Hospital,
Stobhill, Glasgow, on the 8th of
November 1918.

warrant officers, n.c.o.'s, and men
of Major Wilson's Battery: — "We
served with him during the latter part
of the Somme and through the third
battle of Ypres, the worst time we
ever had. We all respected and ad-
mired him for his undoubted efficiency
and his cheerfulness. Whatever hap-
pened the Major always smiled and
helped us along. . . . We not
only respected him as a battery com-
mander, but felt we could turn to
him as a friend. Two of Major
Wilson's brothers, who had both been
wounded, served in the Black Watch,
and his brother-in-law, Major Fraser,
D.S.O., was in the R.F.A.

228

GNR. CHARLES MILNE, R.F.A.

PTE. ORROCK, BLACK WATCH.

Gunner Charles Milne, Royal
Field Artillery, twenty-five years
of age, was the son of Charles Milne
and of his wife Mary Willooks, 69
Sidney Street, Arbroath. He was
an ironmoulder with Messrs Keith &■
Blaokman, Ltd., and had joined the
Forfarshire Battery of the R.F.A.
(T.F.) as a driver in 1909. He was
mobilised at the outbreak of war and
went to France with his Battery in
May 1915- In November 1918 he
came home on leave, and shortly after
his arrival he became seriously ill
with influenza, followed by puen-
monia. He died in Arbroath In-
firmary on the 20th of November.
Gunner Milne's brother, James, was
killed the same year. His father and
two brothers also served.

SIG. CHAS. ADAMSON, R.F.A.

Signaller Charles Adamson,
Royal Field Artillery, Peddie Street,
Dundee, nephew of Charles Ander-
son, newsagent, Guthrie Port, Ar-
broath, was killed in action in Meso-
potamia in 1918. His father and
brother were also serving.

Private George Ttjrnbltll
Orrock, 8th Black Watch, twenty-
four years of age, was the son of
James Orrock, R-edcastle, near Ar-
broath. He was a farm servant at
East Newton when he joined Kit-
chener's Army in October 1914. He
was severely wounded at Loos in
October 1915, and for eighteen
months was in an English hospital.
He never, however, fully recovered,
and after a long illness he died in
Arbroath Infirmary on the 29th of
November 1918. He was buried with
full military honours in Inverkeilor
Churchyard. Pte. Orrock' s brother,
John, also served in the Black Watch,
and his brother, James, was with the
Gordons in India.

CAPT. W. L. MILLAR, R.A.M.C.

Captain William Linton Millar,
Royal Army Medical Corps, Forres,
was formerly in Arbroath as an
assistant to Dr J. A. Dewar. He
was thirty-eight years of age, was
married, and left one child. While on
service he became seriously ill with
pneumonia and died in October 1918.

229

SGT. W. FOX BLACK WATCH.

L-CPL. W. PATERSON, R.A.F.

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Sekgeant William Fox, 5th Black
Watch, 79 Blaokscroft, Dundee, was
the son of David Fox, shoemaker, and
of his wife Mary Reid, 3 Lady loan.
Arbroath. He was twenty-eight
years of age, had married Kathleen
Scanlan, and left one son. Before
going to the front he was employed
as a machineman by Messrs Douglas
Fraser & Sons. He joined the Terri-
torials in 1907 as a private, and when
war broke out he was mobilised and
went to France in November 1914.
His health gave way and he was dis-
charged in 1916, after having served
for two years. He died at his home in
Dundee on the 7th of December 1918.
His brother died of wounds in 1915.

Lance-Corporal William Pater-
son, Royal Air Force, seventeen
years of age, was the sixth son of
George Paterson, Dishland Gardens,
Arbroath. He was an engine attend-
ant, employed by the Town Council,
when he joined the army in 1917, and
went to Henlow for training. On
the 18th of December 1918, when
pulling down the propeller of an aero-
plane to start the engine he slipped,
and the propeller fractured his skull.
He was taken to the Military Hos-
pital at Kempton, where he died next
morning. He was buried in the
Eastern Cemetery, Arbroath, with
military honours. He was one of six
brothers who served with the Forces.

A.M. ALEX. PETRTE, R.A.F.

Air Mechanic Alexander Petrie,
Royal Air Force, 66 Howard Street,
Arbroath, was forty years of age and
had married Wilhelmina Greig. He
died suddenly of pneumonia at 3rd
Southern General Hospital, Oxford,
on the 26th of December 1918, and
was buried in the Western Cemetery,
Arbroath, with full military honours.

PTE. R, KINNEAR, SEAFORTHS.

Private Ronald Kinnear, Sea-
forths, son of Mrs Kinnear, 11 Green
Street, Arbroath, enlisted in 1915,
but was discharged because of his
age. When eighteen he again joined
the Black Watch. He was trans-
ferred, but had been in France only
a fortnight when he was presumed
to have died on the 9th of April 1918.

230

PTE. S. ORAM, BLACK WATCH.

3rd A.M. FRED DORWARD, R.A.F.

Private Scott Oram, 1st Black
Watch, nineteen years of age, was
the son of Henry Oram, and of his
wife Mrs Wallace, 10 Garden Street,
Arbroath. He was employed at
Netherward Mill when he volunteered
for service in November 1914. He
was taken prisoner at Mons before
lie was fifteen years of age, and
during his four years of captivity
went through many trying experi-
ences in Germany and the occupied
Russian territory. Just on the eve
of home coming he took influenza
and died in Schneidemuhl Hospital
Camp on the 23rd of December 1918.

A.B. JAMES CHRISTIE, R.N.D.

Able-Seaman James Christie,
Royal Naval Division, twenty-two
years of age, 50 Guthrie Port_, Ar-
broath, joined up in November 1915.
He was gassed, and had been twice
wounded at the Ancrie and at Cam-
brai. He took pneumonia just before
demobilisation, and died on the 3rd
of March 1919. He was buried in
the Eastern Cemetery, Arbroath,
with full military honours.

Third Air Mechanic Fred
Dorward, Royal Air Force, twenty-
three years of age, was the son of
William Dorward, blacksmith, and of
his wife Martha Low, 12 Taymouth
Terrace, Carnoustie. He was an iron-
turner in the Taymouth Engineering
Works when he joined the 5th Black
Watch in August 1914. In 1917 he
was transferred. After serving for
four and a half years in France and
being twice wounded, he was de-
mobilised, only to die five days later,
on the 15th of February 1918, of
pneumonia, following influenza.

SEAMAN ROBT. SWANKIE, R.N.

Seaman Robert Swankie, Royal
Navy, 35 John Street, Arbroath,
was the son of David Swankie, 16
High Street. He was forty years of
age and had married Joan Turnbull.
Before joining the navy as a mine-
sweeper in March 1916 he was at
Netherward Works. On the 5th of
April 1919, while serving as a deck
hand on the Fifiiiella., which was
lying in Pembroke Docks, he fell
into the water and was drowned.

231

CPL. JOHN BOATH, GORDONS.

PTE. D. M. WADDELL,

Corporal John S. Boath, 4th Gor-
don Highlanders, 24 Millgate Loan,
Arbroath, was the son of William
Boath and of his wife Helen Mill, 19
Wallace Street. He was forty-two
years of age, had married Elizabeth
Whytock and left a son and a daugh-
ter. He had been a butcher with Mi-
David Harris, and was for many
years the principal salesman to Mi-
George Harris. Well-known and
greatly respected in Arbroath, he
was a prominent Freemason, a mem-
ber of Lodge St Thomas, and was
R.W.M. for two years. He was also
an office-bearer of Hope Chapter
Royal Arch and for five years in suc-
cession was R.W.M. of the Free Gar-
deners' Friendly Society. In August
1916 he joined the 5th Black Watch
as a private and was connected with
the commisariat department at Ripon
Camp. Later he was transferred,
and was promoted corporal in June
1918. Early in 1919 he had influenza
followed by pneumonia, and he died
in Edinburgh Castle Military Hos-
pital on the 4th of February. He
was buried in Arbroath Western
Cemetery with Masonic honours.

Private Duncan M. Waddell,

4th Battalion Australian Imperial
Force, thirty-two years of age, was
the son of Mrs James Waddell, 40
Ernest Street, Arbroath. He was
manager at Himmel's Hotel, Sydney.
He enlisted in August 1915, and on
two occasions was recommended for
decoration. He died of pneumonia at
No. 2 General Hospital, Le Havre,
on the 20th of February 1919 while
on his way for demobilisation.

LT. JOHN BORRIE M'NAB, R.E.

Lieutenant John Borrie M'Cul-
loch M'Nab, Royal Engineers (T.F.),
was the son of Mrs M'Nab, Agra
Bank, Carnoustie, and had married
Mabel Wilson, Dundee. He had been
at the Arbroath High School, and
when he joined the O.T.C. in Novem-
ber 1914 was constructing bridges at
Carstairs. He became an instructor
and in August 1918 went to France.
On the 14th of February 1919 Lieut.
M'Nab discovered a German mine. In
withdrawing the charge the mine ex-
ploded and killed him. He was buried
in Mons Military Cemetery.

232

SGT. J. GRANT, ROYAL SCOTS.

FITTER A. WALLACE. R.F.A.

Seegeant James H. S. Grant,
10th Royal Scots, Parkhill Mains,
near Arbroath, was the son of James
Grant and of his wife Isabella Hart,
60 Bell Street, Dundee. He married
Isabella Fullarton, and was an elec-
trical engineer in Dunfermline when
he joined the Highland Cyclist Bat-
talion as a private in November 1914.
He served three years on the East
Coast, and was then sent to Ireland,
transferred to the Royal Scots, and
acted as physical instructor. He
died of pneumonia at Ballinrobe on
the 22nd of February 1919.

SHOEING-SMITH MITDIE, R.F.A.

Shoeing-Smith George Mudie,
Royal Field Artillery, twenty-two
years of age, was the son of Mary
Mudie, Bleachfield Cottage, Car-
noustie. He died at Derey-Mortier
on the 11th of September 1918.

PTE. CHAS. STURROCK, B.W.

Private Charles Sturrock, Black
Watch, was the son of David Stur-
rock, Alyth, formerly of Carmyllie.
He died in Mesopotamia in 1918.

Fitter Alexander Murray Wal-
lace, Royal Field Artillery, twenty-
seven years of age_, was the son of
James Wallace, Glenisla, Elliot
Street, Arbroath. He was a joiner in
Glasgow. Drafted to Egypt in March

1916, he served there until he took
typhus fever in the summer of 1919
and died on the 5th of June in the
27th General Hospital. Fitter Wal-
lace was one of thirteen members of
different branches of the Wallace
family who served in the war.

A.M. DAVID ADAM, R.A.F.

Air Mechanic David Adam, Royal
Air Force, 20 Hannah Street, Ar-
broath, was the son of David Smith
Adam, Gardyne Street, Frioekheim.
He was twenty years of age and was
an engineer with Messrs Anderson &
Chalmers before he joined up in July

1917. He was drowned near Mau-
beuge on the 18th of March 1919
through the collapse of a footbridge
over the River Sambre. When he fell
into the river officers hurried to the
spot, but notwithstanding careful
search no trace of him could be found.

233

REPORTED MISSING.

DIED AFTER DEMOBILISATION.

No OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF DEATH
HAD BEEN RECEIVED AT THE TIME OF
PUBLICATION.

Died shortly after demobilisa-
tion FROM ILLNESS PROBABLY CON-
TRACTED DURING SERVICE.

PTE. STRACHAN, SCOTS. GDS.

Private David Strachan, 2nd
Scots Guards, twenty-nine years of
age, was the son of William Strachan,
for many years grieve at Hillhead,
Carmyllie. The family had removed
to Brechin and Private Strachan was
a farm servant in the district. He
enlisted on the outbreak of war, and
was posted missing in the spring of
1915.

PTE. D. C. BOTHWELL. B.W.

Private D. C. Bothwell, Black
Watch, brother of Miss Bothwell, 5
Cross Mill Wynd, Arbroath, had
gone to America. He joined up for
the British Army there in October
1917, and re-crossed to this country
in a vessel which was torpedoed off
the Irish Coast. He went to France
in July 1918, and was reported
missing on the 2nd of September.

PTE. JAS. DAVIE, CANADIANS.

Private James Davie, Canadian
Cameron Highlanders, was the son of
James Davie, farmer, Bonnington of
Tulloes, Carmyllie. He had been a
farm servant in the district, but was
in Canada when war was declared. He
enlisted in the Canadian Camerons,
and was subsequently reported
missing.

CPL, J. PETERS, ROYAL SCOTS.

Corporal James Peters. 13th
Battalion Royal Scots, Machine Gun
Section, was the eldest son of George
Peters and of his wife Jane Dickie,
Abbey House, Arbroath. He was
twenty-two years of age, and was
an apprentice engineer with Messrs
Alexander Shanks & Son at Dens
Iron Works. He enlisted in the
13th Royal Scots in October 1915.
He was drafted to France in Feb-
ruary 1916, and was demobilised on
the 5th of February 1919. On his
return to Arbroath he took influenza
and died on the 16th of February.

2nd A.M. WM. WADDELL, R.A.F.

Second Air Mechanic William
Waddell, Royal Air Force, nineteen
years of age, was the eldest son of
William Waddell, ironmoulder, and
of his wife Christina Proctor, 23
Bank Street, Arbroath. He was
a motor mechanic in the employment
of Mr David Robbie, motor and cycle
agent, Brothock Bridge, when he
joined the army in March 1918. Air
Mechanic Waddell was stationed at
Roehampton, near London, for a
year, and had just been demobilised
when he took influenza, and died on
the 4th of April 1919.

234

' ' They feared only dishonour, but with their bodies they
stood out the battle ; and so, in a moment big with fate, it
was from their glory, rather than from their fear, that they
passed away. . . . And having each one given his
body to the commonwealth they receive instead thereof a
most remarkable sepulchre, not that wherein they are
buried so much as that other wherein their glory is laid up,
on all occasions both of word and deed, to be remembered
evermore ; for to famous men all the earth is a
sepulchre ; and their virtues shall be testified not only by
the inscription on stone at home, but in all lands whereso-
ever in the unwritten record of the mind, which far
beyond any monument will remain with all men ever-
lastingly." Pericles — Thucydides Hist. II.

235

Non ille pro caris amicis
Aut patria timidus perire.

236

INDEX.

Page

Adam, Gunner Alexander, - - 121

Adam, Air Mechanic David, - - 233

Adam, Private James, 93

Adams, Private Thomas, - - 40

Adamson, Signaller Charles, - - 229

Adamson, Private James, - - 31

Addison, Lance-Corporal Wm. , - 157

Affleck, Private James, 64

Alexander, Private David, - - 97

Alexander, Private Harry, - - 71

Alexander, Sapper James, - - 184

Allan, Private Alexander, - - 127

Allan, Corporal James. M. M., - 165

Allan, Private James K., - - 16

Anderson, 2nd Lieutenant A. D. , - 227

Anderson, Signaller Alexander, - 192

Anderson, Trooper Alexander, - 101

Anderson, Private Archibald R., - 60

Anderson, Captain D. W., M.C., - 175

Anderson, Private Frederick, - 148

Anderson, Private George, - - 115

Anderson, Private James, - - 167

Anderson, Lieut. S. S., - - - 45

Anderson, Private Wm., - - 127

Appleby, Lance-Corporal George, - 42

Arthur, Private W., - - - 13

Bain, Private John, - - - 195

Baird. Private James, 57

Balfour, Private David, - - 21

Bannerman, Lance Cpl. Robert L., 1

Barrie, Private James, 36

Barton, Sergeant Joseph, - - 123

Batchelor, Private George, - - 84

Baxter, Private David H., - - 129
Beaton, Eng. Lt. H. A. F. Lindsay

Carnegie, 22

Beattie, Private David, - - 60

Beattie, Private James. - - 56

Beattie, Private Wm., - - 140

Beatts, Private Alexander, - - 20

Beatts, Private William, - - 214

Bell, Private George, - - - 8

Bell, Private James, - - - 125

Bell, Private Richard, 99

Bell, Private Wm. D., - - 108

Bennet, Corporal Andrew W. , 152

Bennett, 2nd Lieut. John Nicoll, - 108

Bennett, Private Wm, - - - 124

Benson, Private Harry, - - - 201

Berry, Lieut. J. Leslie, - - 189

Binnie, Private Arthur, - - 18

Binnic, Private James, - - - 205

Bisset, Private Harry, - - - 77

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Black, Captain Alan, - - - 173

Black, Corporal Alex. , - - - 53

Black. Captain David S., M.C., - 172

Black, Signaller David, M.M., - 220

Black, Private Geo., - - - 115

Black, Private Geo., Canadians, - 54

Black, Private Wm., - - - 146

Boath, Corporal John, - - - 232

Bothwell, Private D. C, - - 234

Bouick, Private David, - - - 181

Bowden, Gunner James, - - 140

Bowdler, Able Seaman, - - - 199

Bowie, Sergeant John, - - - 148

Bowman, Private James, - - 93

Boyd, Corporal George F., - - 137

Boyle, Lance-Corporal James, - 160

Bracelin, 2nd Lieutenant Daniel, - 191

Bradford, Private John, - - 179

Brand, Private Joseph, - - - 172

Brand, Gunner Robert, 92

Bremner, Able Seaman F. , - - 29

Bremner, Private George R. , - - 50

Brown, Company Sergeant- Major,- 35

Brown, Private David, 91

Brown, Seaman David B. , - - 228

Brown, Corporal James, - - 85

Brown, Private James, - - - 161

Brown, Private Melville, - - 102

Brown, Sergeant Norman M'L., - 5

Brown, 2nd Lieutenant Ralph A., - 56

Brown, Trooper William G., - - 171

Brown, Private W. M., - - 111

Bruce, Captain James, - - - 118

Bruce, Private Wm. A., - - 198

Bruce, Seaman Wm., - - - 219

Buick, Sergeant Geo., - - - 203

Buik, Lance-Corporal David, - 98

Buncle, 2nd Lieutenant Ronald M. , 42

Burnett, Wireless Officer James. - 110

Butchart, Private Chas., - - 182

Cadogan. Private James P., - - 68

Cameron, Private Alexander, - 189

Cameron, Private Alex., Guthrie, - 114

Cameron, Private James, - - 115

Cargill, Private Adam, - - - 139

Cargill, Gunner Alexander, - - 60

Cargill, Lance-Corporal David, - 83

Cargill, Private James, 90

Cargill, Private James M., - - 225

Cargill, Private John, - - - 142

Cargill, Private Robert, - - 63

Carmichael, Lance-Corporal Peter,- 209

Carnegie, Gunner Charles, - - 106

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Carnegie, Lieutenant David A., - 98

Carnegie, Driver Thomas S., - 111

Carrie, Lance-Corporal David, - 63

Carrie, Private Frederick W., - 175

Carrie, Private Peter, - - - 36

Carrie, Lance-Corporal Stephen, - 133

Carter, Com. -Sergt. -Major G. R., - 65

Cathro, Sergeant Alexander. - - 100

Christie, Lance-Corporal Alex. , - 198

Christie, Trooper Andrew D., - 164

Christie, A.B. James, - - - 231

Christie, Private James, - - 81

Christie, Sergeant John, - - 59

Christie, Bombardier John E., - 142

Christison, Private David, - - 2

Christison, Private M'Inroy, - - 193

Clark, Private George, - - - 215

Clark, Private William, - - 9

Clark, Private William, Farnell, - 10

Cloudsley, Lieutenant Hugh, - 59

Clyne, Gunner David, - - - 137

Cochrane, Private Wm. S. , - - 226

Cook, Private John, - - 77

Cormie, Private John, 66

Cosgrove, Driver John, 86

Coull, Corporal Stewart M'L., - 72

Coutts, Private Wm. S., - - 162

Cowan, Captain John, - - - 184

Cowie, Private James, - - - 141

Crabb, Corporal William, - - 85

Craig, Private Alexander, - - 89

Craig, Private David F., - - 189

Craig, Private George, - - 71

Craig, Lance-Corporal Robert, - 176

Craig, Private Wilfred A. , - - 109

Crammond, Sgt. Griffith I., M.M., 176

Crawford, Sergeant-Major John, - 86

Crawford, 2nd Lieutenant W. , - 102

Crighton, Private Robert, - - 59

Croall, Private David, - - - 183

Crofts, Lance-Corporal William B. , 166

Crook, Private George R. , - - 30

Crowe, Sergeant Albert, - - 34

Crowe, Private John C. , - - 142

Cruickshanks, Private William, - 77

Cumming, Driver Andrew, - - 81

Cumming, 2nd Lieut. James L. , - 1 70

Cumming, Private James S., - - 51

Cushnie, Lance-Corporal George, - 123

Cuthill, Private Thomas, - - 203

Dalgarno, Private Eric, - - - 192

Davidson, Private Arthur, - - 78

Davidson, L.-Cpl. James, D.C.M., 78

Davidson, Private Mark, - - 223

Davidson, Private Thomas B., - 6

Davidson, Private T. B.,CairnieSt., 61

Davie, Private James, - - - 234

Davis, Piper John, 46

Dawson, Seaman George R. , - - 112

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Deboys, Driver Norman, - - 113

Deuchars, Driver David, - - 190

Dewar, Private R. D., - - - 125

Dick, Fitter George D., - - 130

Dickson, 2nd Lieutenant Murray, - 225

Dickson, Bombardier William, - 206

Dilly, Sen. Wireless Op. Thomas, - 177

Dinnie, Private George, 73

Uoig, Sergeant, - - - - 6

Donald, Private William, - - 17

Donaldson, Private Alexander. 144

Donaldson, Private David, - - 25

Donaldson, Private James, - - 41

Donaldson, Private Robert E. , - 103

Donaldson, Private William, - - 58

Dorward, Air Mechanic Fred.. - 231

Douglas, Sergeant James, - - 191

Doyle, Private David, - - - 169

Doyle, Private Richard, - - 78

Drury, Driver Edward G. , - - 202

Drury, Private James B., - - 164

Duffus, Lance-Sergeant Harry, - 180

Duncan, Private Hay, - - - 21

Duncan, Lance-Corporal John, - 154

Duncan, Private Joseph, - - 28

Duncan, Sergeant-Major J. C, - 132

Duncan, Private W., - - - 113

Duncan, Private Wm. , Carmyllie, 125
Dundas, Chief Petty Officer Alex.,

D.S.M., 47

Dundas, Private Charles, - - 178

Dundas, Private John Milne, - 12

Duthie, Private William, - - 208

Eccles, Sergeant Albert E., - - 144

Elder, Sergeant John, - - - 155

Ellis, Private Arthur D., - - 75

Emslie, Gunner John A., - - 87

Esplin, Private Charles, - - - 218

Esplin, Lance-Corporal Stewart, - 24

Fairweather, Private James, - - 104

Fairweather, Sergeant John, M.M., 99

Falconer, Lance-Corporal Fred M., 67

Falconer, Private James G., - - 128

Falconer, Wireless Oper. Ronald, - 208

Falconer, Private Tom, 62

Falconer, Lance-Sergeant William, 7

Farquhar, Lance-Corporal Hugh, - 130

Farquhar Private Samuel, - - 5

Farquhar, Lieutenant W. R., - 165

Farquharson, Private George, - 185

Farquharson, Bombardier John, - 88

Fearn, Private David, 27

Fell, Sergeant David, - - 211

Fettes, Private John, - - - 101

Fincher, Private Charles, - - 18

Findlay, Private Alfred, - - 150

Findlay, Lance-Sergeant Robert G. , 123

Finlay, Private Horace, - - 111

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Fitzcharles, Private George, - - 167

Fleming, Private William, - - 109

Fleming, Able Seaman Wm. W, , - 13

Forbes, Stoker Alexander A., - 131

Ford, Sergeant Edward, D.C.M., - 70

Ford, Corporal J. A., - - - 217

Forsyth, Sergeant John, - - 195

Foulis, Private William, - - 80

Fox, Sergeant James, - - - 9

Fox, Sergeant William, - - 230

Fraser, Private Charles T., - - 89

Fraser, Company-Sergt. -Major J. S., 166

Fraser, Private William, - - 105

Frew, Captain David T. C. , - - 76

Fullerton, Private William, - - 51

Fyfe, Private John, 96

Galway, Private William E , - 92

Garrard, 2nd Lieut. F. G., M.M., - 186

Geddes, Private Charles, - - 152

Geekie, Private David, - - 20

Gerrard, Private Allan, 52

Gibb, Captain Alexander R., - - 80

Gibb, Corporal Arthur, - - - 30

Gibb, Private Norman A., - - 189

Gibson, Private James, - - - 220

Gibson, Sergeant Joseph, - - 200

Gibson, Lieutenant Norman, - - 154

Gill, 2nd Engineer Alexander, - 163

Gill, Lance-Corporal Frank, - - 187

Gill, Private Robert, 47

Glass, Lance-Corporal Stephen, - 45

Glass, Colour-Sergeant Victor, - 8

Glen, Private Alexander, - - 148

<>len, Lance-Corporal James, - - 6

Goodman, Pri\ ate Edward, - - 1S5

Gordon, Gunner Thomas, - - 120

Gowans, Lance-Corporal Charles, - 42

Graham, Private James, - - 7

Grahame, Private David, - - 217

Grant, Private Henry, - - - 211

Grant, Sergeant James H. S. , - 233

Gray, Private David, 35

Gray, Seaman Franklin, - - 4

Gray, Lance-Corporal G., - - 29

Gray, Private James T., - - 26

Gray, Sergeant John, . - - 145

Gray, Lance-Corporal John B., - 153

Gray, Private John M., - - - 197

Gray. Private John Y., - - - 155

Gray, Private William, - - - 105

Green, Private Albert, - - - 199

Grove, Sergeant William, - - 213

Guild, Private Alfred, - - - 176

Guthrie, Captain John Neil, - - 26

Hagan, Corporal John, 34

Hall, Captain George, - - - 182

Hanton, Lance-Corporal Joseph, - 87

Hardie, Seaman James, - - - 161

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Hardie, Sergeant William, - - 169

Harper, Corporal Charles H. , - - 94

Harris, Private James A., - - 211

Harris, A.B. John S, - - - 165

Harris, Captain W. T., M.C., - 62

Hastings, Private George, - 155

Hebenton, Private William, - - 93

Henderson-Hamilton, Capt. Chas. , 15

Henderson-Hamilton, Lieut. James, 43

Henderson, Private James, - - 133

Henderson, Gunner John, - - 133

Hendry, Lieutenant Alistair, - - 140

Hendry, Private Charles, - - 163

Herd, Private William, 74

Herron, Private Frederick N., - 139

Hogg, Sergeant David S., - - 66

Hogg, Private George E., - - 39

Hood, Chief Officer George W., - 157

Howie, Corporal William, - - 43

Howie, Private William, - - 49

Hughes, Private William, - - 88

Hunter, Lieutenant Alexander F. , - 52

Hunter, Engineer George, - - 51

Hunter, Captain Hope, - - - 158

Hunter, Lance-Corporal James, - 147

Hutchison, Private J., 38

Hutton, Private David, 14

Hutton, Corporal Far. William, - 200

Ireland, Private David J. C.,- - 79

Irvine, Seaman William J., - - 89

Jack, Private D.S.M., 49

Jack, Private Robert L. R. , - - 11

Jack, Corporal William, - - 38

Jack, Private William D., - - 48

Jagger , Petty Officer John, - - 44

Jamieson, Seaman Alexander P., - 92

Jamieson, Private David, - - 39

Jamieson, Private David F., - - 105

Jarrett, Private William W., - 19

Johnston, Corpl. Frederick, M.M., 119

Jolly, Lance-Corpoial John, - - 104

Jones, Bombardier Edward W., - 185

Keillor, Private Charles, - - 28

Keillor, Seaman Robert, - - 146

Keillor, Lieutenant Thomas, M.C. , 210

Keir, Private John, - - - 198

Keith, Private Joseph, - - - 102

Kelly, Private Peter, - - - 164

Kennedy, Private A., - - - 151

Kenny, Private James, - - - 109

Kerr, Lieutenant James, - - 83

Kerr, Signaller John, 65

Kidd, Sergeant Alexander, - - 96

Kidd, Gunner George, - - - 124

Kinloch, Private Alexander, - - 159

Kinnear, Private Roland, - - 230

Kitson, Lieut. Frederick N. E., - 74

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Kitto, Sergeant David A., - - 156

Knight, Corporal John, 27

Kyd, 2nd Lieutenant F. P., - - 67

Kydd, Private Alexander M. , - 216

Kydd, Corporal Charles W., - - 207

Kydd, Private David, 17

Kydd, Private Douglas, 32

Kydd, 2nd Lieutenant Henry J. N., 1S5

Kydd, Sergeant Robert E. G. , - 178

Kydd, 2nd Lieutenant William S., 105

Laird, Gunner Alexander, - - 155

Laird, Private David, - - - 107

Laird, 2nd Lieutenant James D., - 168

Laird, Private James K, - - 157

Lamb, Private David, 14

Lamb, Lieutenant Patrick J., - 217

Lamb, Lance-Corporal Sidney, - 69

Lamb, Acting-Sergeant William, - 46

Law, Private James, - - - 15

Lawton, Lance-Corporal Norman, - 173

Leadiugham, Corporal Arthur, - 36

Lee, Private John, - - 120

Lee, Private Robert, 30

Leonard, Private James, - - 117

Leslie, Private Frank, - - - 149

Leslie, Private James, - - - 147

Lindsay, fri> ate Alexander, - - 7

Lindsay, Lance-Cpl. Douglas K, - 200

Lindsay, Private James, - - 216

Lindsay, Lance-Corporal William, - 226

Low, Captain Alexander P., - • 58

Low, Private George, - - - 225

Low, Private William, - - 149

Lownie, Gunner William, - - 70

Lowson, Private George, - - 179

Lundie, Private James, 69

Maguire, Gunner Thomas, - - 73

Malcolm, Pri' ate Joseph, - - 47

Malcolm, Private William, - - 81

Manby, Private J., 75

Mangan, Private Richard A., - 83

Mann, Private Alexander, - - 69

Mann, Private Allan B., - - 202

Mann, Private George, - - - 1 1 3

Mann, Private Henry L., - - 74

Mann, Lance-Corporal John, - - 39

Mann, Private William, - - - 219

Marquis, Sergeant Ernest, - - 48

Marr, Private Gordon, - - - 197

Marshall, Sergt. Alexander, M.M., 127

Marshall, Actmg-Sergt. Fred L., - 10

Marshall, Private George, - - 135

Marshall, Private H., - - - 224

Marshall, Private James W., - - 182

Marshall, A.B. Robert, - 33

Martin, Private Thomas, - - 99

Masson, Private Peter, 65

Masterton, Private Gilbert, • - 15

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Mathewson, Private John, M.M., - 83

Matthew, Private James, - - 201

Matthew, Private Walter W. , 97

Matthews, Sergeant Frederick, - 122

Maxwell, Lance-Corporal J., - - 25

Maxwell, Private William, - - 187

Meek, Private Alexander, - - 87

Meekison, Private Wilfred, - - 54

Meldrum, Private George, - - 70

Melville, Private William, - - 13

Michie, Lance-Corporal John, - 206

Middleton, Private Alexander, - 159

Middleton, Corporal George, - - 55

Middleton, Gunner William, - - 223

Mill, Gunner David, - 94

Mill, Staff-Surgeon George R. , - 162

Mill, Chief Engineer James, - - 168

Millar, Private Arthur, - - - 188

Millar, Captain William L., • - 229

Miller, Sapper Alexander, - - 203

Miller, Sergeant G. E., - 39

Miller, 2nd Lieutenant Robert G. , - 106

Miller, Lance-Corporal William, - 61

Mills, Gunner William, - - - 117

Milne, Gunner Charles, - - - 229

Milne, Private Charles, 94

Milne, Private Duncan, - - - 153

Milne, Private George, - - - 175

Milne, Private James, 21

Milne, Stretcher-Bearer James, - 183

Milne, Private John F. S., - - 195

Milne, Lieutenant R. Conway, - 95

Milne, Private Robert, - - - 226

Mitchell, Gunner Alexander, - - 100

Mitchell, Private Alexander, - - 208

Mitchell, Pte. Alexander, Detroit, - 84

Mitchell, Lance-Corporal David A., 205

Mitchell, Sergeant Frederick, - 106

Mitchell, Corporal James, - - 202

Mitchell, Private John, - - - 3

Mitchell, Private Robert, - - 5

Mitchell, Lance-Corporal Thos. F., 217

Moir, Sergeant Charles, - - - 107

Moir, Driver George, - - - 113

Moore, Lance-Corporal Robert, - 168

Morison, Captain Alfred J., - - 134

Morris, Private Kenneth, - - 207

Morris, Private William, - - 81

Morrison, Private Douglas, - - 220

Morrison, Bombardier James, - 82

Morrison, Private James, - - 121

Morrison, Corporal John, - - 116

Mortimer, Private David, - - 170

Mortimer, Private James, - - 183

Mortimer, Private William, - - 223

Morton, Fitter Edward D. , - - 117

Mostyn, Private Peter, 22

Muckart, Corporal David, - - 43

Muckart, Sapper John, - - - 186

Muckhart, Private Richard, - - 118

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Mudie, Shoeing-Smith George,
Mundin, Private David S., -
Munro, Gunner Alexander,
Munro, Gunner David, -
Munro, Private Jaines, -
Murray, Gunner Alexander, -
Murray, Corporal David,
Murray, Private David,
Murray, Private George,
Murray, Gunner James,
Murray, Private James K., -
Myles, Signaller Russel,
Myles, Captain Thomas B. , M.C., -

Macdonald, Private Charles, -
Macdonald, Lieut. Ronald A. L. , -
Macfarlane, Private George, -
Macgregor, Private Ben,
Mackay, Private Donald,
Maclennan, Corporal James, -
Maclure, Private Edward,
Macpherson, Seaman David, -
Macpherson, Sergeant Donald,
M 'Andrew, Private William,
M'Arthur, Private William, -
M'Auley, Private David C, -
M'Bey, Private James, - - -
M'Combie, Private Joseph R.,
M'Connell, Lanee-Cpl. John, M.M.,
M'Donald, (iunner Charles C. ,
M'Donald, Private John,
M'Farlane, Private Thomas, -
M'Glashan, Cpl. Farrier Donald, -
M'Gowan, Private William, -
M'Gregor, Captain A. J., M.C., -
M'Gregor, 2nd Lieut. Alexander. -
M'Gregor, Private Arthur,
M'Gregor, Private David,
M'Gregor, Private George,
M'Gregor, Private Thomas, -
M'lntosh, Private Jaines,
M'Intosh, Lance-Corporal Norman,
MTntosh, Private William, -
M'lvor, Sergeant Thomas,
M'Kendrick, Private Andrew,
M'Kinnon, Private James,
M' Knight, Private Alexander,
M'Lauehlan, Private John, -
M'Leod, Sub-Lieutenant Arthur, -
M'Leod, Rifleman John,
M'Nab, Lieutenant J. Borrie,
M ' Naughton , Sergt. - Ma j . Harold V .
M'Quattie, Slioeing-Smith Alex., -

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Nairn, Private James, -
Napier, Private John C,
Neilson, Corporal Torn,
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Ogg, Bombardier William,

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Oram, Private Scott,

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Orr, Private David,

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Orrock, Private George,

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Paterson, Lance-Corporal William,

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Paton, Private William,

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Pattullo, Private Allan,

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Pattullo, Private Harry,

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Petrie, Seaman Alexander,

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Petrie, 2nd Lieutenant Arnold,

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Petrie, Private Arthur C,

Petrie, Arm. -Sergt. Robert M.,

Philip, Private Geoi-ge,

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Philip, Private William,

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Phin, Sergeant Francis D. ,

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Playford, Lieut. Patrick Handal, •

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Porter, Private Thomas,

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Porter, Sergeant William,

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Redford, Private Alexander, - - 146

Reekie, Private Andrew, - - 213

Reid, Private Charles, - - - 33

Reid, Private David, 97

Reid, Private George, - - - 162

Reid, Gunner William, - - - 224

Reid, Private William, 29

Reid, Seaman William, - - - 114

Reid, Private William C, - - 36

Rennie, Private Andrew, - - 24

Rennie, Sergeant Andrew, - - 116

Rennie, Private James, - - - 227

Rennie, Corporal W., M.M., - 127

Rennie, Lance-Corporal William, - 88

Richardson, 2nd Lieut. Arthur B., 187

Ritchie, Lance- Corporal David, - 167

Ritchie, Private George, - - 33

Ritchie, Private James, - - 60

Ritchie, Corporal William, - - 3

Robb, Driver John, - - - 110

Robb, Driver Norman A. W. , - 196

Roberts, Private Frank, - - 2

Roberts. Private F. , Newbigging, 190

Roberts, Lance-Corporal George, - 201

Robertson, Lance-Cpl. Alexander, 151

Robertson, Private Alexander, - 101

Robertson, Private Arthur, - - 95

Robertson, Private Charles, - - '215

Robertson, Private David, - - 122

Robertson, Private Edward W., - 123

Robertson, Sapper Frank, - - 91

Robertson, Major Herbert, M.C., - 171

Robertson, Private Hugh, - - 82

Robertson, Private James, - - 121

Robertson, Private Norman, - - 57

Robertson, Sapper Ralph, - - 167

Robertson, Private Thomas, - - 71

Robertson, Private William, - - 153

Robinson, Gunner Frank, - - 125

Rodger, Private Arthur, - - 48

Rose, Lance-Corporal William, - 17

Ross, Private Andrew, - - - 205

Ross, Private George, - - - 19

Ross, Lance-Corporal James P., - 214

Russell, Seaman Francis, - - 110

Rutherford, Corporal James, - - 218

Savege, Private Horatio, - - 11

Scott, Private Alfred, - - - 138

Scott, Lieutenant Arnold, - - 193

Scott, Private (ieorge, - - - 151

Scott, Signaller J., - - - 163

Scott, Private Robert S., - - 72

Scott, Private Thomson, - - 54

Scrimgeour, Lance-Corpl. David, - 35

Scrimgeour, Private James, - - 1 1 1

Scroggie, Lieutenant Valentine, - 199

Shanks, Private Arthur, - - 216

Shaw, Sergeant Alfred, - - - 136

Shaw, Private William,
>helston, Gunner Charles,
Shepherd, Private James,
Shepherd, Private John,
Sheriff, Private Alexander,
Sheriff, Private (ieorge,
Sievwright, Private David R. ,
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Smith, Gunner Ed ward M. , -
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Smith, Private Joseph S.,
Smith, Private Norman,
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Smith, Private William,
Smith, Eng. Sub-Lieutenant,
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Spence, Private George,
Spiers, Private Alexander,
Spink, Private Edward,
Spink. Private Henry, -
Spink j 'Seaman James F. ,
Spink, Gunner William,
Stark, Private James C. ,
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Stewart, Private Archibald, - - 35

Stewart, Lance-Corporal Charles, - 103

Stewart, Private David, - - 137

Stewart, Private James, - - 77

Stewart, Private John, - - - 178

Stewart, Artificer Robert, - - 49

Stewart, Private William, M.M., - 186

Stewart, Pte. William, N. Tarry, - 196

Stormont, 2nd Lieutenant W. L., - 199

Storinonth, Private William, - - ] 95

Stott, Private George M., - - 197

Strachan, Private David, - - 234

Strachan, Private Thomas, - - 12

Strachan, Seaman Thomas D., - 159

Strathern, Seaman David B., - 27

Stuart, Lieut. George D. G., - - 138

Stuart, Captain James 0. G., M.C., 174

Stuart, Gunner Thomas, - - 181

Stuart, Lance-Cpl. Wm., D.C.M., - 22

Sturrock, Lance-Cpl. Alexander, - 222

Sturrock, Private Charles, - - 233

Sturrock, Private James, - - 225

Sturrock, A B. Norman, - - 214

Sutherland, Private Adam, - - 55

Suttie, Private J., - - - - 213

Swankie, Private Daniel, - - 122

Swankie, Corporal Peter, - - 211

Swankie, Mine Sweeper Robert, - 231

Swinton, Lance-Corporal David, - 182

Symon. Private Alexander, - - 150

Tasker, Private Robert, - - 141

Taylor, Private Arthur, - - 101

Tavlor, Lance-Corporal Arthur D., 209

Taylor, Gunner D., - - - 181

Tavlor. Private George L. , - - 38

Thoir-s, Private A., ~ - - - 165

Thomson, Lieut. Charles W.,- - 209

Thomson, Corporal Edwin, - - 12

Thomson, Private George, - - 130

Thomson, Private James, - - 135

Thomson, Private Peter, - - 69

Thomson, Private Roy, 67

Thomson, Pte. Roy, Friockheim, - 170

Thomson, Private William, - - 177

Tocher, Seaman Henry, - - - 116

Todd, Private Andrew, 90

Todd. Private James, - - 87

Todd, Private John, - - - 147

Todd, Private Samuel, - - - 37

Todd, Private W. H., - - - 121

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Tosh, Private James, 85

Traill, Gunner James ('., - - 193

Urquhart, Sergeant Harry, - - 173

Valentine, Private Alexander, - 16

Valentine, Private Alexander D., - 154

Valentine, Private Henry G. , - 98

Vey, Private Thomas, - - - 224

Waddell, Private Duncan, - - 232

Waddell, Air Mechanic William, - 234

Wallace, Fitter Alexander, - - 233

Walton, Private Arthur, - - 7

Walker, Lance-Corporal William, - 73

Warden, Private Charles A., - - 97

Watson, Private David L., - - 223

Watson, Private Everard H. G., - 57

Watson, Private John, 27

Watson, Private John, Rosebank, - 169

Watt, Private Alexander, - - 166

Watt, Gunner George, - - - 212

Watt, Lance-Corporal James W., - 122

Webster, Lieutenant Joseph F. , 4

Weir, Private Charles, 75

Weir, Gunner David, 88

White, Private Robert, - - 11

Whitlaw, Sergeant Charles, M.M., 196

Whitton, Private John, 37

Whitton, Sergeant John, M.M., - 90

Whyte, Private James, - - - 103

Whytock, Lance-Corporal Arthur,- 76

Wilkie, Private James, 20

Wilkie, Private John, - - - 147

Williamson, Private Arthur S., - 107

Williamson, Gunner Edward B., - 216

Williamson, A.B. Lawrence, - - 124

Wilson, Private George,- - - 224

Wilson, Lieutenant James, - - 193

Wilson, Private Robert S., - - 68

Wilson, Private Ronald, - - 180

Wilson, Major Sydney, - - - 228

Wishart, Private Albert, - - 128

Wishart, Engineer Alexander, - 129

Wishart, Gunner W. G., - - 47

Withington, Corporal Charles, - 212

Wood, Private J. R. E., - - 108

Wyllie, Corporal David, - - 1 36

Wyllie, Gunner David, - - - 215

Yeaman, Private Edward, - - 19

Young, Sergeant David B. , - - 132

For permission to reproduce a number of the photographs we are indebted to the
following Arbroath photographers : — Mr and Mrs W. J. Anckorn, Messrs W. H.
Geddes & Son, Mr A. Gibson, and Mr A. C. Milnk.

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