Part 125

=MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. _s._ of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan. J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; _b._ Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5 Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Verbranden Molen.

=McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG=, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, _s._ of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith; _b._ Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Kemmel.

=McGUFFICK, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S. 106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McGUILEY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S. 105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=McGUINNESS, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD=, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex) Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; _b._ Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869; educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg & Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War, Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge, with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg, Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere--a distance of about 300 yards--in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins. Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer, 7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark, when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600 yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the Governor-General’s prize for the second time--the Blue Riband--at the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches, Camp Perry, Ohio. He was _unm._

=MACHIN, CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie (3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker; _b._ Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall; enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate fighting on the Aisne. He was _unm._

=McHUGH, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM=, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, yst. _s._ of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau. of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; _b._ The West Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April, 1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway; _unm._

=MACK, FRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACK, JAMES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACK, WILLIAM BELL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS=, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder _s._ of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; _b._ Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

=MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON=, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), _s._ of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; _b._ Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; _unm._

=MACKAY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKAY, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST=, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=MCKEE, JAMES=, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.

=MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only _s._ of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth [Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated painter; _b._ Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24 May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander, Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “He was in the trenches at the time, defending a position, and was watching a charge of our men on his left front, and had turned round to tell his men to cease fire, in case they hit any of their own side, when he was shot in the head, death being instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; _unm._

=MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, _s._ of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; _b._ Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889; educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; _unm._ His eldest brother, Lieut. G. A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

=MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON=, Lieut., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; _b._ Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College, Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; _unm._

=MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C.=, Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer; _b._ West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889; educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912; killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.” A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first, followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death. He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.

=MACKENZIE, JAMES=, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; _b._ Strathpeffer, co. Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; _s.p._ On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service.

=MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE=, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder _s._ of the late James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife, Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; _b._ Shanghai, China, 1 Dec. 1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June, 1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State, Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He _m._ at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of Craigholme, Edinburgh; _s.p._

=MACKENZIE, KENNETH=, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=McKENZIE, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest _s._ of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond, Perthshire; _b._ Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914, and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the 2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien, which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the 26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie _m._ at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street, Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion Margot Stuart, _b._ 15 Aug. 1912.

=MACKEY, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A. 5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKIE, REGINALD ERNEST=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Councillor James Wyse Mackie, J.P., of the firm of I. W. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., Princes Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth (16, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh), dau. of the late John Burnett; _b._ Edinburgh, 6 July, 1884; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and studied at the Surgeon’s Hall, and then entered his father’s firm. He joined the Queen’s Own Edinburgh Rifles, which on the formation of the Territorial Force became the 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots, in 1907, and on 10 March, 1910, having passed in tactics and obtained a certificate from the School of Instruction, was gazetted Lieut. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for Imperial service; left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, Saturday, 22 May, and was killed in the attack on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; _unm._ He went out as Capt., but was not gazetted until after death, and to rank as from 26 May, 1915.

=MACKIE, ROBERT COLE=, Private, No. 6/499, 2nd South Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; _b._ Cathcart, Glasgow, 26 Feb. 1885; educ. Public School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regt.; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there between that date and 1 May; _unm._

=McKINNON, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 537, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd _s._ of Alexander McKinnon, of Brownhill, Pitglassie, Turriff, co. Aberdeen, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Myles Morrison; _b._ Easter Elchies, co. Moray, 13 Aug. 1882; educ. Craigellachie and Aberlour Secondary School; was a Coppersmith; went to Australia in 1912, and settled in Queensland. He joined the Scottish Horse on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and served with that corps in South Africa, and when the European War began in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in the 1st Australian Light Horse, and died in hospital at Malta, 1 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli on or about 8 Aug.; _unm._

=MACKINNON, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7581), S.S. 102965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=MACKINTOSH, JAMES LAWTON=, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, yr. surviving _s._ of the late Hugh Mackintosh, of Braeval, Nairn, Shipowner, by his wife, Henrietta (12, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Richard Lawton; _b._ Nairn, 4 Jan. 1895; educ. Nairn Academy, Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. List, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was given a temporary lieutenancy in the 1st Highland L.I., Dec. 1914; went to France, 26 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1 May, 1915; _unm._ Buried near Ypres. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the 1st Highland L.I.. wrote: “I had recognised his rare promise as an officer and he had endeared himself to all. He was leading his platoon in the attack when he was shot in the head, and died at once, without any pain.”