. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. od officer and his University a distin-guished son. Quiet and modest, liked and re-spected by every one, it was only to his intimatefriends that he was really known in the bright-ness and charm of which he was capable; andit was only such friends who could realize andappreciate the greatness of their loss. STUART, JAMES MATTHEWSON : Pri-vate, 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of Donald Stuart,painter; born Macduff,7 December 1894;educated Banff Aca-demy ; student in Arts,1913-14. On 15 September1914 Stuart enlisted inthe 6th Gordons and,after
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. od officer and his University a distin-guished son. Quiet and modest, liked and re-spected by every one, it was only to his intimatefriends that he was really known in the bright-ness and charm of which he was capable; andit was only such friends who could realize andappreciate the greatness of their loss. STUART, JAMES MATTHEWSON : Pri-vate, 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of Donald Stuart,painter; born Macduff,7 December 1894;educated Banff Aca-demy ; student in Arts,1913-14. On 15 September1914 Stuart enlisted inthe 6th Gordons and,after training at Bed-ford, went to Francein November. He waswounded and invalidedhome in February 1915, but rejoined the Battalion in time to takepart in the attack of 25 September 1915 whenhe fell in action. At the time of his death Stuart was acting asfield messenger during the advance, and in thisresponsible and dangerous post he showed himselfnot only fearless and daring but full of cool steadi-ness and determination. It was the same in every-. 17 IN MEMORIAM. i H— HHIHH i 1 HH E^j ^ gS ! r 1 Jfir ^ ^9 Ewpkn . P- _i_ - thing—in his work, on the football field, on thebattle-field, Stuart was one to be relied on always. WATSON, JOHN DOUGLAS : Machine Gun Sergeant, 9th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; son of Rev. John Watson ;born Banchory-Devenick, 3 October1885 ; educated KelsoHigh School fromwhich he passed asDux to EdinburghUniversity in the summersession of 1906 heattended Arts classesat Aberdeen Univer-sity. He (Edin.), 1908; (Edin.), 1910; andwas admitted , 1913. In 1914 he wasassumed partner in the legal firm of & Steedman, Selkirk. In August 1914 he hastened to Aberdeen tojoin Kitcheners Army as a Private, and was atonce promoted platoon Sergeant of a platoon ofminers. He became so greatly attached to thisplatoon that he refused a commission. Later hewas appointed Battalion Machine Gun Sergeant,and proceeded to France with
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