. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. session, March 1915, and received a commissionas 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Highland , in May of thesame year. After ninemonths training inthis country he pro-ceeded to France andtook part in the de-fensive fighting on theYpres and ArrasFronts during thesummer of 1916. Hewas slightly woundedat the Battle of theSomme and was in-valided home for a few months. He returned to France in the end ofthe year, followed up the German retreat fromthe Somme, fought at the capture of Messinesridge in the spring of 1917, and was killed atNieuport in
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. session, March 1915, and received a commissionas 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Highland , in May of thesame year. After ninemonths training inthis country he pro-ceeded to France andtook part in the de-fensive fighting on theYpres and ArrasFronts during thesummer of 1916. Hewas slightly woundedat the Battle of theSomme and was in-valided home for a few months. He returned to France in the end ofthe year, followed up the German retreat fromthe Somme, fought at the capture of Messinesridge in the spring of 1917, and was killed atNieuport in Belgium on 12 July 1917, whiletrying to save a comrade who had been entombedby the explosion of a German shell. He waspromoted Lieutenant a few days before hisdeath and was mentioned in dispatches of 7November 1917 for distinguished and gallantconduct. Possessed of a fund of real common senseand a staunchness on which his friends could anddid place infinite reliance, Guthries influencewas great and always for the highest. If he hadbeen permi
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