. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ly wounded by a handgrenade. FALCONER, ROBERT: Sergeant-Major,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of James G. Fal-coner, commissionagent; born Aberdeen,8 December 1890 ;was educated at theGrammar School andat Gordons leaving school heentered the firm ofMessrs. Stephen &Smith, advocates,Aberdeen, to whom hewas later apprenticedas a law clerk. During his apprenticeship he studied Law at AberdeenUniversity, 1912-15. He joined the 4th Battalion Gordon High-landers () as a Private in 1911, and took agreat interest in the Territorials.
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ly wounded by a handgrenade. FALCONER, ROBERT: Sergeant-Major,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of James G. Fal-coner, commissionagent; born Aberdeen,8 December 1890 ;was educated at theGrammar School andat Gordons leaving school heentered the firm ofMessrs. Stephen &Smith, advocates,Aberdeen, to whom hewas later apprenticedas a law clerk. During his apprenticeship he studied Law at AberdeenUniversity, 1912-15. He joined the 4th Battalion Gordon High-landers () as a Private in 1911, and took agreat interest in the Territorials. He wasmobilized as a Lance-Sergeant, and crossed toFrance with the 4th Gordons in the spring of1915 ; there he was soon promoted CompanySergeant-Major. Early in 1916 he was homeon leave. He rejoined the Battalion in May,and returned to France with a draft in the be-ginning of July to take part in the Battle of theSomme. During this engagement he was re-ported wounded and missing on 23 July 1916,and was later believed killed on that 37 IN MEMORIAM.
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