. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. dispositionof the guns on that Front and served in severalactions, receiving the thanks in orders of In April 1917 the regiment crossed toEast Africa, where during May he commandedan outpost of 300 in swamps South of KilwaKiwinji. In June they rejoined the Battalionwhich marched to Beaumonts Post on the NgauraRiver. There on 12 June 1917, commanding apatrol of Punjabis and the Gold Coast Regiment,he fell in action with a German ambush. Warmtributes were paid to him by the native officers andmachine gunners of the regiment. His Colonelwro
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. dispositionof the guns on that Front and served in severalactions, receiving the thanks in orders of In April 1917 the regiment crossed toEast Africa, where during May he commandedan outpost of 300 in swamps South of KilwaKiwinji. In June they rejoined the Battalionwhich marched to Beaumonts Post on the NgauraRiver. There on 12 June 1917, commanding apatrol of Punjabis and the Gold Coast Regiment,he fell in action with a German ambush. Warmtributes were paid to him by the native officers andmachine gunners of the regiment. His Colonelwrote : We all learned to love him, and I neverwish a more zealous, hardworking officer; verykeen, a thoroughly lovable gentleman . FINDLAY, JAMES : 2nd Lieutenant, Battalion Northumberland siliers; son of--) John Findlay, farmer; born Loirston, Nigg; 10 September 1895 ; educated Robert Gordons College; student in Agriculture, 1 9 1 2-1 4 ; Medicine, 1915-16. C o m i n g from afamily well known inagricultural circles,Findlay soon became 12thFu-. 63 IN MEMORIAM. popular in the University, in all the activities ofwhich he took a very keen interest. He gainedthe University Diploma in Agriculture in 1914and then commenced the study of January 1916 he enlisted in the Royal Fusi-liers and was later commissioned in the North-umberlands. He went to France in June 1916,and, just after receiving the command of hiscompany, he was killed on 16 June 1917. MILNE, ALLAN SMITH : 2nd Lieutenant,5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of George Milne, solic-itor ; born Aberdeen,1 August 1879 ; ma_triculated 1898; ,1902 ; ( Law), 1905; Solic-itor in Aberdeen, andserved in the firm ofMessrs. Reid &Davidson, advocates. Milne was commis-sioned to the 5thB at t al ion Gordo nHighlanders in June1915, and after nine months of home service hecrossed to France in March 1916. During thenext nine months he saw much fighting, and wasacting Captain in comma nd of a company whenhe wa
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