. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. usly until the spring of 1918. He was Captainand Adjutant of his Battalion, when during theGerman offensive of March he was wounded forthe third time, receiving mortal injuries to whichhe succumbed on 31 March. Suddenly launched on a career so very di-vergent from the one he had in his mind toadopt, he was not found wanting, but gaineddistinction, receiving the Military Cross and inKings Birthday Honours, 1918—Bar to McKENZIE, LESLIE : Lieutenant, BlackWatch ; son of the Rev. Alexander McKenzie ;born Coull, 20 June1893; educatedGordons Colleg
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. usly until the spring of 1918. He was Captainand Adjutant of his Battalion, when during theGerman offensive of March he was wounded forthe third time, receiving mortal injuries to whichhe succumbed on 31 March. Suddenly launched on a career so very di-vergent from the one he had in his mind toadopt, he was not found wanting, but gaineddistinction, receiving the Military Cross and inKings Birthday Honours, 1918—Bar to McKENZIE, LESLIE : Lieutenant, BlackWatch ; son of the Rev. Alexander McKenzie ;born Coull, 20 June1893; educatedGordons College,Aberdeen ; enteredAberdeen Universityas bursar, 1911;Jenkyns Prize in Classi-cal Philology, 1914 ;, 1915. A studentof the highest promise,he was prevented bythe outbreak of warfrom finishing hisHonours course inClassics, but was granted the degree of inabsentia. McKenzie was mobilized with U Company,4th Gordon Highlanders, and on 1 January 1915was gazetted to the 8th Black Watch, with whomhe crossed to France in May. He was twice. severely wounded, but returned to the Front eachtime and served until wounded at Arras soseverely that he died at Camieres on 2 April1918. There was nothing in Homer McKenziethat was not genuine, and everything he did hedid with both hands. He never shirked spadework, and his scholarship was all the morebrilliant for being sound. Ever unruffled inspirit by the heaviest defeat, he must have de-liberately wangled his third trip to France—otherwise the effects of his wounds would havekept him at home. Still young in years, he dieda man who confirmed among men the promiseof his youth. JOHNSTON, JOHN: 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers ; son of William Johnston, blacksmith ; born Hatton of Fintray, Aberdeenshire, 27 August 1893 ; student in Arts, 1913-15. Immediately on theoutbreak of hostilitiesJohnston offered him-self for service, but itwas in the second yearof the war that circum-stances admitted of hisentering the Army, andhe became a Sapp
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