. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. is fellow - leading his men to battle in MametzWood on 16 August 1916, he was instant-aneously killed. PIRIE, GILBERT ALEXANDER : Private,4th Battalion Cameron Highlanders; son of Alexander Pirie,Huntly; born there,26 January 1895 ; edu-cated at the GordonSchools, Huntly, wherehe was an enthusiasticBoy Scout; matricu-lated in Medicine inOctober 1914. On 10 December1915 Pirie went toInverness to enlist inthe 3/4th Cameronsand was then sent for training to Ripon, his abilities as a piper soongaining him a place in the band. He wastran
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. is fellow - leading his men to battle in MametzWood on 16 August 1916, he was instant-aneously killed. PIRIE, GILBERT ALEXANDER : Private,4th Battalion Cameron Highlanders; son of Alexander Pirie,Huntly; born there,26 January 1895 ; edu-cated at the GordonSchools, Huntly, wherehe was an enthusiasticBoy Scout; matricu-lated in Medicine inOctober 1914. On 10 December1915 Pirie went toInverness to enlist inthe 3/4th Cameronsand was then sent for training to Ripon, his abilities as a piper soongaining him a place in the band. He wastransferred to the i/4th Camerons and on 12July 1916 landed in France, where he metan untimely death a few weeks later—nearBazentin-Le-Petit, 18 August 1916—on his waythrough the front line trenches to take a fallencomrades place as a stretcher bearer. Oneof the many who laid down for posterity anunripened life, he was of gentle and modestdemeanour, upright and honest in character;his friendship was not easily gained but wasworth 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
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