. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. as an officer. One of his party of telephonistsafterwards wrote to his CO. : Later on Icrawled out for water and looked for him, buthe and the reel of wire had disappeared, so Iexpect he had most gallantly gone on runningthe wire ... he was a good officer and a trueScottish gentleman . SELBIE, COLIN MACKENZIE: 2nd Lieu-tenant, 11th Battalion The Cameronians(Scottish Rifles); son of Professor Selbie,Aberdeen Col-lege ; born B i rsay,Orkney, 24 February1889; educated Mary-culter East School andAberdeen G r a m marSchool ; , 1910, w

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. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. as an officer. One of his party of telephonistsafterwards wrote to his CO. : Later on Icrawled out for water and looked for him, buthe and the reel of wire had disappeared, so Iexpect he had most gallantly gone on runningthe wire ... he was a good officer and a trueScottish gentleman . SELBIE, COLIN MACKENZIE: 2nd Lieu-tenant, 11th Battalion The Cameronians(Scottish Rifles); son of Professor Selbie,Aberdeen Col-lege ; born B i rsay,Orkney, 24 February1889; educated Mary-culter East School andAberdeen G r a m marSchool ; , 1910, with dis-tinction in Geology;appointed AssistantNaturalist in NationalMuseum, Dublin, 1911. Specialized in the study of Myriapoda andCrustacea, published The Decapoda Reptantiaof the Coasts of Ireland, Part I, Palmura, Asta-cura and Anomura. Part II, dealing withPaguridea, was nearly ready for publication when,in October 1914, he enlisted as a private in theRoyal Scots. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the nthScottish Rifles in January 1915, he

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