. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 40 IN MEMORIAM. MACDOXALD, GEORGE HARPER : Cap-tain, 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of William Mac-donald, janitor ; bornGlasgow, 10 February1887 ; entered theUniversity 1905 ;, 1908 ; teacher,Butterburn School,Dundee, till outbreakof war. Macdonald enlistedin the , Highland FieldAmbulance, Septem-ber 1914; six monthslater he obtained a commission in the 2ndBattalion Gordon Highlanders, and crossingto France, took his share for fifteen monthsin some of the heaviest fighting of the was wounded in July 1916 and in
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 40 IN MEMORIAM. MACDOXALD, GEORGE HARPER : Cap-tain, 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders ; son of William Mac-donald, janitor ; bornGlasgow, 10 February1887 ; entered theUniversity 1905 ;, 1908 ; teacher,Butterburn School,Dundee, till outbreakof war. Macdonald enlistedin the , Highland FieldAmbulance, Septem-ber 1914; six monthslater he obtained a commission in the 2ndBattalion Gordon Highlanders, and crossingto France, took his share for fifteen monthsin some of the heaviest fighting of the was wounded in July 1916 and in August waspromoted Captain. On recovering from hiswound, he returned to the front, and four weeks. later was killed by a shell, September 1916. He was mentioned in dispatches bySir Douglas Haig for gallant and distinguishedservice in the field, 13 November 1916. Afriend wrote of him : Clever, cheerful, re-sourceful, he is at the same time as true andreliable as one would wish ones friend tobe ... he is a born officer . JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER FRANCIS : 2nd Lieutenant, 16th Battalion LondonRegiment; son ofAlexander Johnston,? master mariner ; born at sea, 24 April 1886;educated GrammarSchool, Aberdeen;graduated , intended en-tering the Ministry, but^A ^^ had to postpone further ^KHft A Jb| reasons of ak Jk M health. He travelled ^^^^* ^^^^^. the and then taught at Hipper-holme, Yorkshire, and at Alnwick. In 1912 heentered Westminster College, Cambridge, to study for the Ministry ; here he had a very dis-tinguished career, passing out with Honours andtaking the first place in the College in took his and , at London Univer-sity and was licensed as a pr
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