. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. versity Diplomain Agriculture in 1913and the National Diploma in Dairying, and in1914 took the National Diploma in Agriculture,with distinction. He was appointed to a post in the InlandRevenue Lands Valuation Department, but hadonly been there three months when, as a memberof U Company, 4th Gordons, he was called tothe colours. After a period of training he crossedto France in February 1915, and in May wasseverely wounded and sent home. Smith wasrecommended for a commission and gazetted tothe 6th Seaforths in August 1915. On 1 Septem-ber 1916 he r
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. versity Diplomain Agriculture in 1913and the National Diploma in Dairying, and in1914 took the National Diploma in Agriculture,with distinction. He was appointed to a post in the InlandRevenue Lands Valuation Department, but hadonly been there three months when, as a memberof U Company, 4th Gordons, he was called tothe colours. After a period of training he crossedto France in February 1915, and in May wasseverely wounded and sent home. Smith wasrecommended for a commission and gazetted tothe 6th Seaforths in August 1915. On 1 Septem-ber 1916 he returned to France and in autumn ofthat year he was killed by a shell when leadinghis company on the third enemy line, 13November 1916. STEPHEN, WILLIAM : Captain, 5thBattalion Gordon Highlanders; son of George Stephen, merchant ; born Fraser-burgh, 27 November 1881 ; educated Fraser-burgh Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School;, 1903; joined his father as a partner inthe firm of G. Stephen & Co., merchants andherring exporters, In October 1914 he was reinstated as Cap-tain in the Gordon Highlanders, in which regimenthe had previously helda Territorial commis-sion. After training inEngland, he receivedthe offer of a post asmusketry instructor,which would have kepthim at home. Hechose, however, to goto the Front and hisBattalion was early inaction. After only afew days in France, asudden German attack upon our trenches resulted in hand-to-handfighting in which Captain Stephens companywas engaged. At the Battle of the Ancre,near Beaumont-Hamel, on 13 November 1916,as Stephen was leading his company in adaring attack upon the German trenches, hewas struck by a hand grenade and killedinstantaneously. He was a man known to hisfriends as most kindly-dispositioned, loving-hearted, and unselfish, constantly thinking ofthe comfort and happiness of his men, admiredand trusted by them as a friend and leader inmore than warfare. In him his own town ofFraserburgh lost a son of wh
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