. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. that over-rode every other was not rash boyishness or the illusion ofadventure that made him hide his age and tryto join the Gunners in the early months of thewar, it was because he felt that he ought togive his strength, his intelligence and all that wasbest in him to his country in her hour of need. DOW, JOHN : Captain, ; son of Peter Dow, schoolmaster, Elgin; born Dallas,Morayshire, 14 Junef^5SS5ESS51 1889 ; ed u ca t e d a tWest End School andElgin Academy, after-wards at FordyceAcademy where hewas Seafield medallist;gr
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. that over-rode every other was not rash boyishness or the illusion ofadventure that made him hide his age and tryto join the Gunners in the early months of thewar, it was because he felt that he ought togive his strength, his intelligence and all that wasbest in him to his country in her hour of need. DOW, JOHN : Captain, ; son of Peter Dow, schoolmaster, Elgin; born Dallas,Morayshire, 14 Junef^5SS5ESS51 1889 ; ed u ca t e d a tWest End School andElgin Academy, after-wards at FordyceAcademy where hewas Seafield medallist;graduated , 1910;, 1914. He wasappointed one of theHouse Surgeons at theAberdeen Royal In-firmary, which he leftin the spring of 1915on taking a commission in the ().He was gazetted to the 2/ist HighlandCasualty Clearing Station, from which he wastransferred a year later with the rank of Captainto the Indian Medical Service. In India, heserved in Peshawar and Kisalpur, and was thensent to Mesopotamia where he remained for a. year, doing valuable and important work con-nected with the staffing, equipment and trans-port of hospitals. From Mesopotamia he wasordered to Persia, where he served for a yearand a half. While working at an outpost fort,Khaneh Zinian, thirty miles from Shiraz, influenzabroke out. He remained on duty till himselfstricken with the disease, when he was removedto Shiraz where he died two days later—on 5November 1918. Dow has been described as having the quiethumour of the true Northman, whilst his enthu-siasm for his profession was great. REID, JAMES MESTON : Major, Royal Engineers ; son of Walter Reid, , Aber-deen ; born Aberdeen,1 o February 1891; edu-cated at the GrammarSchool ; student inScience, 1907-08. Hestudied chemical engin-eering at Aberdeen andGlasgow and subse-quently in France andGermany, and in 1913. At theoutbreak of war he waswith the firm of OrrsZinc White Ltd., Wid- nes. He served as a Private in the Li
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