. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ction, and was promoted se-cond officer of A Company on the fightingline. After a night of cutting wire before TheSilesian Sap he led the guiding platoon of theregiment against the German position betweenVermelles and Hulluch and there fell 25 Septem-ber 1915. His capability as an officer is shownby the fact that he had so instructed his they were able to carry out orders and madegood even after their officer fell . One of manytributes paid to him by his fellow-officers states : He knew no fear. His dauntless cheerfulness,bright wit an
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ction, and was promoted se-cond officer of A Company on the fightingline. After a night of cutting wire before TheSilesian Sap he led the guiding platoon of theregiment against the German position betweenVermelles and Hulluch and there fell 25 Septem-ber 1915. His capability as an officer is shownby the fact that he had so instructed his they were able to carry out orders and madegood even after their officer fell . One of manytributes paid to him by his fellow-officers states : He knew no fear. His dauntless cheerfulness,bright wit and integrity of purpose were com-bined with most genuine unselfishness. STEPHEN, FREDERICK CHARLES: Lieutenant, 6th Battalion Gordon High-landers; son of JohnStephen, farmer; bornFordyce, 4 December1886 ; educated For-dyce Academy; en-tered Aberdeen Uni-versity as seventhBursar; (I Math.), 1909 ;Simpson MathematicalPrize, Greig Prize inNatural Philosophy,and David RennetGold Medal. In Octo-ber 1909 he went up to Emmanuel College,. Cambridge, and in June 1910 was elected to aCollege Scholarship, holding at the same timeboth the Fullerton and Ferguson Scholarshipsin Mathematics. He left Cambridge with a FirstClass in both parts of the Mathematical Tripos,joined the staff of Merchant Taylors School, andwas doing very successful work in preparing boysfor Sandhurst and the Universities. In August 1914 he enlisted in the 4th BattalionGordon Highlanders, and soon afterwards went tothe Front with a commission in the 6th his work as an officer he brought the samehonourable and conscientious spirit as hadmarked his student days, and the splendidstrength and skill of body which had made himan athlete of whom his College was he fell at Loos on 25 September 1915,as a Lieutenant of bomb-throwers, his Battalionlost a good officer and his University a distin-guished son. Quiet and modest, liked and re-spected by every one, it was only to his intimatefriends t
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