. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. du-ated in July of that year. He immediatelyjoined the 2/2 Highland Field Ambulance, waspromoted Captain, and posted Medical Officerto the 321st Brigade Royal Field Artillery, thenstationed at Heydon. In August 1917 he pro-ceeded to Salonika, serving first with the 63 rdGeneral Hospital and later with the 81st FieldAmbulance. At many points of the Salonikafront he did advanced dressing station work,and was finally posted as regimental MedicalOfficer to the 9th South Lancashire was killed while dressing wounded in thefinal rush against
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. du-ated in July of that year. He immediatelyjoined the 2/2 Highland Field Ambulance, waspromoted Captain, and posted Medical Officerto the 321st Brigade Royal Field Artillery, thenstationed at Heydon. In August 1917 he pro-ceeded to Salonika, serving first with the 63 rdGeneral Hospital and later with the 81st FieldAmbulance. At many points of the Salonikafront he did advanced dressing station work,and was finally posted as regimental MedicalOfficer to the 9th South Lancashire was killed while dressing wounded in thefinal rush against the Bulgars, 18 September 1918,and was mentioned in dispatches by the Com-mander-in-Chief, Salonika Force, in March , by his courage, high ability and finesympathy was a general favourite among hisfellow-officers and men, and won unstinted praisefrom those under whom he served for his braveryand high sense of duty. LAWSON, WILLIAM: 2nd Lieutenant,1st Battalion (attd. 8th Battalion) RoyalScots Fusiliers ; son of Robert Lawson, Beau-. fort Home Farm, Beauly; born Kiltarlity, 23March 1879 ; g°ld medallist of Inverness RoyalAcademy ; took a dis-tinguished place in hisUniversity classes andgraduated M. A. in 1900with First Class Honoursin Mental was a teacher inNairn Academy, there-after in Ayr, first in Rus-sell Street School andlater as First Assistantin Newton Park 1915 Lawson en-listed in the 15th Argyll and SutherlandHighlandersand took part in muchof the hard fighting in France in 1916-17. InJanuary 1918 he was gazetted 2nd LieutenantRoyal Scots Fusiliers, and spring of the sameyear found him serving on the Macedonian 19 September 1918 he was killed in actionin the great frontal attack on those practically/impregnable positions west of Lake Doiran. Insuch a shadowy outline one might sketch thelife and achievements of a mere refrain from adding an appreciation onbehalf of a most endearing personality would berank ingr
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