. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 48 IN ME MORI AM. He joined the Boy Scouts in 1909, and inthe first months of the war he did good seryicein charge of a troopassisting the Coast-guard at Cruden the University hejoined the OfficersTraining Corps, andwhen it was decidedthat all first and secondyear medical studentsshould join up he ob-tained a commissionin the 5 th GordonHighlanders, Decem-ber 1915. After train-ing at various camps in England he was sentto France on 1 July 1916, and went throughthe first Battle of the Somme. In Octoberof that year he joined the Royal Flying
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 48 IN ME MORI AM. He joined the Boy Scouts in 1909, and inthe first months of the war he did good seryicein charge of a troopassisting the Coast-guard at Cruden the University hejoined the OfficersTraining Corps, andwhen it was decidedthat all first and secondyear medical studentsshould join up he ob-tained a commissionin the 5 th GordonHighlanders, Decem-ber 1915. After train-ing at various camps in England he was sentto France on 1 July 1916, and went throughthe first Battle of the Somme. In Octoberof that year he joined the Royal Flying Corpsas an observer, and was just up for his lastflight to obtain his wings when a bulletfrom an enemy aeroplane rendered him un-conscious, and he died in hospital soon after,7 January 1917. A fellow-officer writes: alife like his was so transparently beautiful and. sincere that it needs no eulogieshe lived—a British gentleman . he died as BURGESS, DUNCAN : Lieutenant-Col-onel, ; son of Gregor Burgess,Achnacoille ; bornCromdale, 21 August1850 ; educated For-dyce Academy andAberdeen GrammarSchool ; with First ClassHonours in Mathe-matics at Aberdeen in1868; (Camb.);FRCP. (Lond.);elected Perpetual Fel-low, Corpus C h r i s t iCollege, Cambridge ;studied at various continental Universities, in-cluding Prague, Wurzburg and Vienna. Professor Burgess then settled in Sheffield,and was for many years on the staff of SheffieldGeneral (afterwards Royal) Hospital where he
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