. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. e. Shortthough his career was,he showed himself both a brilliant and promis-ing scholar and a keen sportsman. As a class-fellow wrote : In his first year at Kings . .he at once became a marked man, for his perfectblending of work and play, of social and scholasticduties . McBain was a member of the Edinburgh Uni-versity and was gazetted to the August 1915. He served at home untilDecember 1915 when he went to France, beingattached first to the 154th (Howitzer) and wastransferred later to the 231st Brigade, 1 July 1916, when
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. e. Shortthough his career was,he showed himself both a brilliant and promis-ing scholar and a keen sportsman. As a class-fellow wrote : In his first year at Kings . .he at once became a marked man, for his perfectblending of work and play, of social and scholasticduties . McBain was a member of the Edinburgh Uni-versity and was gazetted to the August 1915. He served at home untilDecember 1915 when he went to France, beingattached first to the 154th (Howitzer) and wastransferred later to the 231st Brigade, 1 July 1916, when the great attack began hewas acting as liaison officer to the infantry in thefront line near Gommecourt; when last seen hewas running a telephone wire over to newly-captured trenches. McBain was reported miss-ing, then as severely wounded and taken died in a German Military Hospital at Vrau-court, 9 July 1916. His brother-officers and him have testified to the enthusiasmand cheerfulness which characterized his work.
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