. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. nscientious his school andstudent days he waswell known in athleticcircles. As a member of theTransport Service of the he was calledto the colours at the outbreak of war. On 8May 1915 he landed at Gallipoli with the FirstExpeditionary Force. He was on the Peninsuladuring the whole of the British occupation andtook part in all the fighting. In January 1916he was drafted to France and served continuouslyfor a year on the Western Front. About the endof 1917 he joined the Royal Air Force and, aftertraining at Hastings and Oxfor
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. nscientious his school andstudent days he waswell known in athleticcircles. As a member of theTransport Service of the he was calledto the colours at the outbreak of war. On 8May 1915 he landed at Gallipoli with the FirstExpeditionary Force. He was on the Peninsuladuring the whole of the British occupation andtook part in all the fighting. In January 1916he was drafted to France and served continuouslyfor a year on the Western Front. About the endof 1917 he joined the Royal Air Force and, aftertraining at Hastings and Oxford, he was sent tothe Flying Station at Duxford where, on 29 July1918, he was accidently killed. JAFFE, JOSEPH : Captain, ; son of David Jaffe, storekeeper, Addo Station,Cape Colony; bornShavli, Russia, 6 July1888; entered theUniversity as a studentin Medicine, summersession, 1908, andgraduated , returned to SouthAfrica and set up ingeneral medical prac-tice at Addo Station ;this however he carriedon for only a short Jaffe was one of those who came from theother end of the world to fight for King andcountry. In May 1916 he obtained a commis-sion in the and was promoted Captainin May 1917. He was attached as RegimentalMedical Officer to the Somerset Light Infantry,went abroad in May 1916 and saw service inIndia, Egypt and France. He was killed inaction in France on 1 August 1918. PROCTOR, JOHN : Major, ; son of William Proctor, hotel-keeper; bornFochabers, 8 January1888; educated atRobert Gordons Col-lege and the Univer-sity, Aberdeen; gradu-a t ed , 1909;, 1913, passinghis third and finalprofessional examina-tions with 1913 he held oneof the House appoint-ments at the AberdeenRoyal Infirmary, and later spent a few months as House Surgeon atthe Aberdeen Sick Childrens Hospital. On the outbreak of war Proctor was commis-sioned in the , and was on duty at theRoyal Victoria Hospital, London, until he pro-cee
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