. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. e outbreak of war he hurried home fromRhodesia and was in rapid succession a memberof a New Zealand Corps, an ambulance driveron the Belgian Front, and a horse February 1915 he obtained a commission inthe Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry withwhich, and the 21st Divisonal Cyclists, he servedtill his adventurous and crowded life was endedon 26 January 1916 while he was carrying backa wounded comrade after a bombing raid. Forhis conduct on this occasion he was mentionedin dispatches. He might have been on leave atthe time he was kil
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. e outbreak of war he hurried home fromRhodesia and was in rapid succession a memberof a New Zealand Corps, an ambulance driveron the Belgian Front, and a horse February 1915 he obtained a commission inthe Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry withwhich, and the 21st Divisonal Cyclists, he servedtill his adventurous and crowded life was endedon 26 January 1916 while he was carrying backa wounded comrade after a bombing raid. Forhis conduct on this occasion he was mentionedin dispatches. He might have been on leave atthe time he was killed but wrote home, Whatsthe good of leave if you havent done somethingworth while ? So he sought honour in anothergallant adventure and met death. DEWARGEORGE: Lieutenant, ; son of David Dewar, draper; born Peterculter,4 January 1893 ; educated at Gordons College,Aberdeen; and at the University where hegraduated (with distinction), in 1915,distinguishing himself alike in his classes, andon the playing fields. Throughout his Uni-. versity career he was conspicuous in therugby team and in the cricket eleven butremained untouchedby his more than or-dinary popularity andwas genuinely belovedby a wide circle offriends. On the outbreak ofwar he was mobilizedas a private in , but in Oc-tober 1914 returned toAberdeen to completehis medical his graduation he rejoined as a Lieutenant in the same corpsand proceeded in November 1915 to France,where he was killed by a shell on 3 February1916. Short though his period of service inFrance was, he had already won the affectionateregard of the officers and men with whom hewas associated, while his friends at home andabroad felt it hard that he, who had exulted soopenly in the joyousness of life and had ex-emplified so attractively the vigour of youth,should die so young. BROWN, RICHARD GAVIN : Lieutenant, ; son of Richard Gavin Brown, DeputyInspector General, (retd.) ; born Stoke,Devon, 8 April 1
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