. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. was gazetted to theSeaforth Highlanders. After nine monthshome service he was sent to Mesopotamia,where he became bombing officer to his was killed at Sanna-i-yat on 22 Febru-ary 1917, during a bombing attack organizedand carried out by him. In a letter from hisColonel the highest testimony is given to hisefficiency, bravery and thoroughness. It wasthe success of that attack, to which he had sogreatly contributed, that made possible the tak-ing of Kut-el-Amara, and the further advanceup the river. In him the Battalion lost a gallantan
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. was gazetted to theSeaforth Highlanders. After nine monthshome service he was sent to Mesopotamia,where he became bombing officer to his was killed at Sanna-i-yat on 22 Febru-ary 1917, during a bombing attack organizedand carried out by him. In a letter from hisColonel the highest testimony is given to hisefficiency, bravery and thoroughness. It wasthe success of that attack, to which he had sogreatly contributed, that made possible the tak-ing of Kut-el-Amara, and the further advanceup the river. In him the Battalion lost a gallantand skilful officer, and his comrades a charmingcompanion. REID, WILLIAM GEORGE : 2nd Lieuten-ant, 3rd Battalion Scottish Rifles; son of William Reid, carpenter; born Aber-chirder, 27 November 1889; educated GordonSchools, Huntly; entered Aberdeen Universityas 4th Bursar, 1907 ; graduated with FirstClass Honours in Classics and Dr. Black Prizein Latin, 1911 ; third assistant in Latin, 1911-12 ; Classical Exhibitioner of Oriel College, Ox-. ford, 1912-15 ; Second Class Classical Modera-tions, Oxford, 1913, and Second Class LiterseHumaniores, Oxford,1915 () ; BishopFraser Post - graduateScholar, Oriel College,Oxford, 1915 -16 ;second assistant inGreek, Aberdeen Uni-versity, 1915-16. Reidexcelled in all branchesof study, but his truebent was towards Eng-lish and Classics. Hisoutstanding ability-showed itself not only in his record at Aberdeen and at Oxford, butin his contributions to Alma Mater which,whether in poetry or in prose, were noticeablefor excellence of style and beauty of yet he was only at the beginning—what hehad done was still but earnest of the thingsthat he would do . The war came, turning students into soldiers,and Reid threw himself with the keenest en-thusiasm into the activities of the Oxford still handicapped by the effects of anillness in his student days, he succeeded in 1916in getting a commission in the 3rd ScottishRifles,
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