. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ceeded with his Battalion to Belgium in a month later he died of wounds receivedin action near Ypres, 22 July 1915. \ THOMSON, JOHN MACLEAN: Sergeant,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of James G. Thom-s o n, cabinetmaker,Fochabers; bornFochabers, 2 Septem-ber 1889; in 1911. Hewas an excellent speci-men of what used tobe a common type ofScottish student who,faced by serious ob-stacles, contrived tomake their way to aUniversity and pro-fessional education. He studied at College from 1911-14. At the outbreak
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. ceeded with his Battalion to Belgium in a month later he died of wounds receivedin action near Ypres, 22 July 1915. \ THOMSON, JOHN MACLEAN: Sergeant,4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of James G. Thom-s o n, cabinetmaker,Fochabers; bornFochabers, 2 Septem-ber 1889; in 1911. Hewas an excellent speci-men of what used tobe a common type ofScottish student who,faced by serious ob-stacles, contrived tomake their way to aUniversity and pro-fessional education. He studied at College from 1911-14. At the outbreak of war he was in charge ofa Mission in Canada. Thomson was one ofthe earliest and the most eager of the band ofvolunteers who abandoned their studies to takeup military service. As a sergeant, he displayedqualities which would, had he been spared,undoubtedly have led to a brilliant militarycareer. He fell a victim to a snipers bullet inthe trenches near Ypres on 22 July 1915. Astudent of no mean attainments, he was alsoan athlete and in ever)
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