. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ssubstitute at Glen-rinnes until her deathin 1918, when Murray,being still on active service, resigned his post inthe School. Nothing was further from Murrays thoughtsthan a soldiers life, but in November 1915 heenlisted in the Gordons as a Private and receiveda commission in April 1917. Whilst on servicein PVance he saw much heavy fighting, and fellin action near Arras on 29 August 1918. MARR, ALEXANDER MURRAY : Cor-poral, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusi-liers ; ; son ofAlexander M. Marr, sta-tionmaster, Tillyfourie;born Peterculter, 19April
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ssubstitute at Glen-rinnes until her deathin 1918, when Murray,being still on active service, resigned his post inthe School. Nothing was further from Murrays thoughtsthan a soldiers life, but in November 1915 heenlisted in the Gordons as a Private and receiveda commission in April 1917. Whilst on servicein PVance he saw much heavy fighting, and fellin action near Arras on 29 August 1918. MARR, ALEXANDER MURRAY : Cor-poral, 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusi-liers ; ; son ofAlexander M. Marr, sta-tionmaster, Tillyfourie;born Peterculter, 19April 1897 ; educatedKemnay PublicSchool, from which heentered the University,having gained a bursaryat the Annual Com-&* Q^ petition. At school he was a great favour-ite, and it was quiteevident that he tookkeen delight in his books, for he made markedprogress in English subjects and in ModernLanguages. After one session at the University, he suc-ceeded in joining the 3rd Gordons, having beenrejected several times for medical reasons. For. a time he was in the Labour Battalion andafterwards was transferred to the Royal ScotsFusiliers, acting as a Lewis Gun home service, spent at various centres—Kinross, Catterick—extended over two repeatedly turned down he persistedin volunteering for active service, and was atlast allowed to go to France, where he spentsix months in the thick of the fighting. Hegained the Military Medal on 21 August 1918by his splendid work and coolness under fire,and was killed in action at Noreuil, 2 Sep-tember 1918. No better appreciation of himcould be given than that written by his PlatoonOfficer: He was a very good-natured andunselfish lad, keen at his work and alwayswilling to obey. He was a splendid exampleto his comrades. He made the supremesacrifice with his face to the foe, doing anddaring for the sake of humanity and his nativeland. SMITH, DOUGLAS ROBERT:Captain, ; son of James Smith, agent,Northern AgriculturalC
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