. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 15 August 1915, and took part with his Battalionin the heroic charge on the German posi-tions at Hooge on that eventful 25 September1915. He was reported missing on that date,and later presumed killed. EWEN, JOHN BIRNIE : Private, 4th Bat-talion Gordon Highlanders ; son of JamesEwen, nurseryman ;born Aberdeen, 21February 1893 ; edu-cated Robert GordonsCollege ; matriculatedin Arts, 1910, enteringthe University as 13thBursar; , 1914, withSecond Class Honoursin Classics. He re-presented the Univer-sity in Association foot-ball and in te
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. 15 August 1915, and took part with his Battalionin the heroic charge on the German posi-tions at Hooge on that eventful 25 September1915. He was reported missing on that date,and later presumed killed. EWEN, JOHN BIRNIE : Private, 4th Bat-talion Gordon Highlanders ; son of JamesEwen, nurseryman ;born Aberdeen, 21February 1893 ; edu-cated Robert GordonsCollege ; matriculatedin Arts, 1910, enteringthe University as 13thBursar; , 1914, withSecond Class Honoursin Classics. He re-presented the Univer-sity in Association foot-ball and in tennis,being awarded his full-blue in the latter. In October 1914, after a previous medical re-jection, he joined the 2/4th Battalion GordonHighlanders and trained with them in Aberdeenuntil March 1915, when he had the hard ex-perience of being drafted straight from his ownhome to the Battalion in France. It was hisstrong sense of duty that took him to France,for he had just gained in open competition apost under the National Health Insurance C
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