. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. cidentsof his military career. SIMPSON, ROBERT MACKIE : Private,6th Battalion Black Watch ; son of RobertSimpson, merchant;born Keig, Aberdeen-shire, 17 April 1896 ;educated at the localPublic School and Gor-dons College, Aber-deen ; student in Arts, 1914-15- He joined the 3/2ndScottish Horse in No-vember 1915, and wasin training at Dunkelduntil January 1917,when he was sent toFrance and drafted into the i/6th Black only three months abroad he met hisdeath on 1 April 1917, being killed by thebursting of a shell which struck the house i
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. cidentsof his military career. SIMPSON, ROBERT MACKIE : Private,6th Battalion Black Watch ; son of RobertSimpson, merchant;born Keig, Aberdeen-shire, 17 April 1896 ;educated at the localPublic School and Gor-dons College, Aber-deen ; student in Arts, 1914-15- He joined the 3/2ndScottish Horse in No-vember 1915, and wasin training at Dunkelduntil January 1917,when he was sent toFrance and drafted into the i/6th Black only three months abroad he met hisdeath on 1 April 1917, being killed by thebursting of a shell which struck the house inwhich he was billeted at Maroeuil, near all who knew him he was Bobbie, thefamiliar name proving his popularity, as schoolboy, student and soldier. ANDERSON, WILLIAM BRUCE: 2ndLieutenant, 5th Battalion Gordon High-landers ; ; son of William N. Anderson,mason; born Aberdeen, 17 June 1888; edu-cated at Robert Gordons College ; student inArts and Agricultural Science ; graduated ,1911. Before finishing his (Agr.) he went.
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