. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. School;served an apprentice-ship to Law withProvost Finlayson,solicitor, Fraserburgh ;attended Law classesat Aberdeen University1913-15, and wassecond prizeman;served in the officesof Messrs. Fraser &Duguid and Messrs. Davidson &: Garden, advo-cates, Aberdeen. He enlisted in the 4th Gordon Highlanders,November 1915, and was trained at Ripon, wherehe also took the course of training for theSignal Service. Grant went to France in June1916 and joined the 2nd Battalion of theGordons. He was wounded at Beaumont,November 1916, and invalided home. On his
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. School;served an apprentice-ship to Law withProvost Finlayson,solicitor, Fraserburgh ;attended Law classesat Aberdeen University1913-15, and wassecond prizeman;served in the officesof Messrs. Fraser &Duguid and Messrs. Davidson &: Garden, advo-cates, Aberdeen. He enlisted in the 4th Gordon Highlanders,November 1915, and was trained at Ripon, wherehe also took the course of training for theSignal Service. Grant went to France in June1916 and joined the 2nd Battalion of theGordons. He was wounded at Beaumont,November 1916, and invalided home. On hisconvalescence he joined the 3rd Battalion atAberdeen and returned to France, 6 October 1917. He was killed in action at Gheluvelt,Belgium, 26 October 1917. MILNE, WILLIAM CHARLES : Lieu-tenant, 121st Pioneers (Indian Army); elder son of John Milne, chemist; born Fetter-angus, 26 July 1886 ; educated- AberdeenGrammar School; graduated , 1908. Hestudied at Oxford and in Germany as a pro-bationer for the Indian Forest Service and was. appointed in 1911 Assistant Conservator, attachedto the Northern Circle of the Bombay 1913 he was placed in charge of the EastKhandesh Forest Division. Transferred on the outbreak of war to theIndian Army Reserve, he was later attached tothe Indian Infantry and sent to Mesopotamiawhere he was stationed at Samarrah. He died ofenteric at the Officers Hospital, Bagdad, on 29October 1917. MACLEOD, WILLIAM PATRICK: Lance-Corporal, 1st Battalion Seaforth High-landers ; son ofMurdo Macleod, bankagent; born Storno-way, 9 June 1886 ;educated Ni cols onInstitute, Stornoway ;graduated , taught for a time atNewburgh, Fife, andwas later EnglishMaster in JedburghGrammar School. While at the Uni-versity Macleod be-longed to the U Company, Gordon High-landers, and later joined the Scottish Horse. InSeptember 1914 he enlisted in the 7th Seaforths,and after training in England, was sent out toFrance in May 1915. He was severely wounded,an
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