. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. Public School,Morayshire. Kennedy was mobilized as an Officer in the6th Seaforth Highlanders, in August 1914, andproceeded with the Battalion to France in May1915. Owing to his scientific training, he wasappointed a Gas Officer to the 51st Division, aposition he held until his death from woundsnear Corbie, on the Somme, 6 August 1916. URQUHART, REV. WILLIAM: Lieu-tenant, 1st Battalion Black Watch; son of William Urqu-hart, marine engineer ;born Aberdeen, 20Nov. 1883 ; enteredGordons College,1894 ; matriculated,1902 ; graduated Second Clas
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. Public School,Morayshire. Kennedy was mobilized as an Officer in the6th Seaforth Highlanders, in August 1914, andproceeded with the Battalion to France in May1915. Owing to his scientific training, he wasappointed a Gas Officer to the 51st Division, aposition he held until his death from woundsnear Corbie, on the Somme, 6 August 1916. URQUHART, REV. WILLIAM: Lieu-tenant, 1st Battalion Black Watch; son of William Urqu-hart, marine engineer ;born Aberdeen, 20Nov. 1883 ; enteredGordons College,1894 ; matriculated,1902 ; graduated Second ClassHonours in Philo-sophy in 1906, win-ning the GladstoneMemorial the auspices ofthe Aberdeen Univer-sity Missionary Association he superintendedwith universal acceptance and much successthe Spital Mission during the winter sessionof 1906 and the summer vacation of 1907,During the summer of 1908 he worked ona Rancher Mission in Alberta and in 1909, being Brown Scholar of thatyear. He was assistant minister in Inveresk. Parish Church, 1909-10, and subsequently as-sistant minister -in New Greyfriars, Edinburgh,1910-12, when he was elected to the parishof Kinloch - Rannoch, in the Presbytery ofWeem. While a student in Arts, Urquhart joinedthe Scottish Horse in the year of the foundationof the University troop and, feeling he owedto his country a debt for the military traininghe had received during his arts career, heenlisted about September 1914 as a Privatein the Royal Scots (McRaes Battalion). Afearless thinker and a beloved pastor, he wasnow to show himself a gallant soldier. In1916 he received a commission in the 1stBattalion, Black Watch, where he was ageneral favourite among his fellow - leading his men to battle in MametzWood on 16 August 1916, he was instant-aneously killed. PIRIE, GILBERT ALEXANDER : Private,4th Battalion Cameron Highlanders; son of Alexander Pirie,Huntly; born there,26 January 1895 ; edu-cated at the GordonSchools,
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