Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Thomas McClelland, of St. Anne’s Mount,
Aigburth, Liverpool, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of David Smart, of
Liverpool; _b._ Liverpool, 7 Feb. 1893; educ. Greenbank School,
Liverpool; Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he
graduated in B.A., with honours in Jurisprudence, July, 1914. On the
outbreak of war he joined the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1914,
and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to the
Front early in March, 1915. He was killed in action, while leading his
platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg L’Avoué,
16 May, 1915, and was buried in the Rue du Bois, about 2 miles west of
Neuve Chapelle; _unm._ A cross bearing his name marks the spot. He
was a keen fisher and motor cyclist.
[Illustration: =Thomas McClelland.=]
=McCLUSKEY, ALFRED JOHN=, L.-Corpl. No. 450, 10th Light Horse,
Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Andrew McCluskey,
Ship’s Steward, by his wife, Hannah Louisa (17, North Church Street,
Bute Dock, Cardiff), dau. of Alfred Budding, of Cardiff, Shipwright;
_b._ Cardiff, 20 May, 1877; educ. Mount Stuart Square National
School there, and on leaving started work as a wagon builder in the
North Central Wagon Works, Cardiff. Tiring of wagon building he
followed in his dead father’s footsteps and took to the sea. In Feb.
1907, he emigrated to Australia, and catching the “get rich quick”
fever started out as a prospector with varying success. What money he
made he speedily lost in speculation. Later he took up sheep farming,
and worked in Western Australia until the outbreak of war, when he
joined the Commonwealth Force, and was killed in action at Walkers
Ridge, Anzac Beach, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._ His commanding
officer wrote: “I personally knew that he was a good soldier, as during
the whole of our training he personally came under my notice a great
deal.”
[Illustration: =Alfred John McCluskey.=]
=McCOMB, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5565), S.S. 100505,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=McCORMACK, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 28), 10131, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=McCORMICK, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, 304180, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=McCREADIL, CHARLES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26680 (Dev.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=McDERMOTT, FREDERICK AYLWARD=, Private, No. 857, 1st Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, yst. _s._ of the late Cornelius William
McDermott, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., by his wife, Mary Anne (7, Leigham
Terrace, Plymouth); _b._ Rhyd-y-Gors, co. Carmarthen, 29 June,
1879; educ. Richmond (Yorkshire) Grammar School and Mannamead College,
Plymouth; after the declaration of war enlisted in the Australian
Imperial Force at Sydney, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 7 June, 1915,
while on observation duty in the firing line by the bursting of a
Turkish high explosive shell, a piece of which pierced his heart.
He was buried by the padre in the Anzac Beach cemetery; _unm._
General Sir William Birdwood wrote his sympathy in the loss of a son,
who died so gallantly for his King and country. The Adjutant wrote that
the late Private F. McDermott was thought very highly of by his late
Capt. A. J. Shout, V.C., in whose company he was.
[Illustration: =Frederick A. McDermott.=]
=McDIARMID, KENNETH=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, _s._ of the late John McDiarmid, of Auchenvin,
Dalbeattie, Scotland, Shipowner, by his wife, Mary A. J. dau. of the
late James Hosack; _b._ Liverpool, 26 Oct. 1881; educ. Sedbergh
School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; held an appointment
in Burma with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., and being
home on leave at the outbreak of war, applied for a commission; was
gazetted to the 3rd Battn. on 4 Sept., and later was transferred to
the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. subsequent to
his death, 5 May, 1915, to date as from 2 Feb. 1915. He was killed
in action on Hill 60 near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; _unm._ Writing
to his mother, his commanding officer said: “He not only showed a
splendid example of leadership, but of great heroism. Though wounded
he refused to go away from the fighting line, and, finally, when his
platoon was very much reduced in numbers and the Germans were in
consequence pressing on to the parapet, he leapt on to the parapet
himself and met his end most valiantly fighting at close quarters.
He was an officer whose brave deeds will never be forgotten in the
regt. and whose charming personality made a great impression on me for
the short three weeks I knew him.” A brother officer wrote: “He was
wounded through the arm first, but refused to leave the firing line.
About 6 a.m., while cheering on the Scottish Borderers, he was shot
clean through the head and killed instantaneously. Your son was beloved
by his men and fellow officers, and in losing him the regt. has lost
one of its best officers, and myself one of my best chums. It is some
little consolation to know that his bravery pulled his men together
at a very critical point, and his memory will never be forgotten.”
And another officer: “The conduct of A Coy. was extraordinarily good.
They had between 120 and 130 casualties out of 160. Lieut. McDiarmid
did extraordinarily well there. Although severely wounded he kept
up a rapid rifle fire behind a blockade until he was killed. I was
told his conduct was absolutely heroic, for he succeeded in holding a
very important communication trench, thus saving a rather dangerous
situation, as but for his action it might well have resulted in our
communications being cut.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s
Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.
[Illustration: =Kenneth McDiarmid.=]
=McDONALD, ALEXANDER TOM CLARK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11267,
H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20
miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=McDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10076, 2nd Battn. Scots
Guards; _b._ Barony, Glasgow; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 40;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in
action, 18 Dec. 1914; _m._ at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1902, Annie, dau.
of (--) Fay, and had two children: Archibald, _b._ 7 April, 1915;
and Isabella, _b._ 5 June, 1904.
=MACDONALD, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 10151, 1st Battn. Queen’s
Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France
and Flanders; died 31 Oct. 1914.
=McDONALD, ANGUS=, Private, No. 10741, 1st Battn. Highland L.I.,
_s._ of Donald McDonald, of 47, Hopehill Road, Glasgow; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 13 General
Hospital, Boulogne, 20 March, 1915, of wounds received in action.
=MACDONALD, REV. CHARLES GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Scottish
Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of the late Edward
Ellice Macdonald, Rector of Hillhead High School, Glasgow, by his wife,
Johanna Margaret, dau. of the late John Adam, of India; _b._
Hillhead, Glasgow, 7 March, 1889; educ. Hillhead High School and
Glasgow University, where he graduated M.A. and B.D. and where he was
actively associated with the O.T.C., and in May, 1914, was licensed by
the Presbytery and appointed Assistant Minister in Hamilton. On the
outbreak of war he resigned his position and was gazetted to the 1/6th
Scottish Rifles as 2nd Lieut., 5 Sept. 1914; went to France early in
March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915, in an
attack on the enemy’s trenches. The attack was planned on the night of
the 14th, Lieut. Macdonald, with his company, was appointed to lead the
charge, and his own platoon, with himself at their head, was the first
to advance. They had to traverse 300 yards of open ground to reach the
German first line trenches, and in his last letter, written that night,
Lieut. Macdonald said that he was proud at having been selected to lead
the charge, but that it was very unlikely that he would come out of it
with his life. He was _unm._ A brother officer wrote: “Your son
was brave beyond all words; Lieut. Macdonald was asked to lead that
charge, and he _did_ lead that charge. He had smiles all over
his face and shouted: ‘Come on, men!’ He had a rifle with the bayonet
fixed, and he ran in front of his men to encourage them. It was a brave
piece of work. He knew no fear.” The Rev. J. H. Dickie, Minister of New
Kilpatrick, to whom Lieut. Macdonald acted as assistant for a time, in
the course of an appreciation of the deceased, wrote: “The Church of
Scotland is poorer to-day, because of the death of Gordon Macdonald.
For he was a man of not only outstanding ability, but of exceptional
spiritual power. A brilliant student, Master of Arts, with first-class
honours in literature, he had all the makings of a powerful preacher,
for he possessed a soul--soul all afire with vivid sense of the Divine.
I was privileged to know him well, to share his inmost thoughts, and
with sincerity I can say that Gordon Macdonald was one of the most
spiritually-minded men I ever knew.” His brother, Lieut. Edward Ellice
Macdonald, is now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary
Force in France.
[Illustration: =Charles G. Macdonald.=]
=McDONALD, DONALD=, Stoker, 1st Class, 284481, Petty Officer,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn.
The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving _s._ of the late Keith
Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and
authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon
Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston,
Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord;
_b._ Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educ. Edinburgh
Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also
receiving private tuition from Capt. Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh;
joined the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to
the 2nd Battn. 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the
Front with his regt. 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24
Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle
of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; _unm._ He was buried near where he
fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east
of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his
grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer,
Col. Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieut. MacDonald’s mother: “I am
thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily
directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an
excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company
commander. Capt. Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me
how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise.” He was
keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and
loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he
captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910–11–12 and afterwards played
in the former pupils’ team. At the school sports in 1911 he won the
cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the
secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug.
to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. “Chronicle” for Oct.
Lieut. MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother,
the late Lieut. Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battn.
Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.
[Illustration: =Evan R. H. K. MacDonald.=]
=McDONALD, GEORGE=, Private, No. 11457, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt.), _s._ of Alexander McDonald, of Milton of Culloden
Farm, Allanfearie, co. Inverness, Cattleman, by his wife, Helen, dau.
of Alexander Ross, Ploughman; _b._ Tomich, Muir of Ord, 6 Aug.
1895; educ. Urray Public School; was a Gardener at Forres; joined the
Royal Scots 22 Feb.; went to France 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in
action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =George McDonald.=]
=McDONALD, GEORGE DUFFUS=, E.R.A., R.N.R., 31 E.C., H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MACDONALD, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 15171, 13th (Service) Battn.
The Royal Scots, yst. _s._ of John Macdonald, of Kilnhillock,
Glenrinnes, co. Banff, Crofter, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William
Gordon; _b._ Dufftown, 28 Feb. 1895; educ. Mortlach Higher Grade
School there; was apprenticed as a draper to the Central Cash Drapery
Warehouse, Dufftown, and afterwards proceeded to Greenock; joined the
Royal Scots soon after war was declared, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France
July, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915;
_unm._
=McDONALD, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9968), 296416,
H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McDONALD, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT=, Private, No. 1991, 9th Battn.
Royal Scots (T.F.), only _s._ of John McDonald, of 22, Downfield
Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes Taylor, dau. of William Scott;
_b._ Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1895; educ. Dairy Public School there;
enlisted, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot
through the chest, 22 March following, while erecting barbed wire
entanglements before our trenches at St. Eloi. He was removed to No. 13
General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on 3 April, and was buried
in the cemetery there; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote of him:
“He was a brave and plucky lad”; and his company commander: “I knew him
well as being always keen on his work and ready to do anything to help
at any time.”
=McDONALD, KENNETH STUART=, Corpl., No. 1534, 14th Battn. (London
Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Thomas
McDonald, of Beauly, co. Inverness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Richard
Mathews, of Compton, Berkshire; _b._ Richmond, co. Surrey, 23
Jan. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; joined the Victoria and
St. George’s Rifles (1st Middlesex), 24 April, 1900, retiring 29 Jan.
1907, and joining the London Scottish, 4 Feb. following, and was
promoted Corpl., 1 Nov. 1913. He served in the South African War of
1899–1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry, and received the Queen’s medal.
On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for
foreign service; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action
at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade from the
firing line. He was buried near a chateau, 1¼ miles west of Ypres, on
the Ypres-Vlamertinghe road. He _m._ at Brixton, 8 Feb. 1902,
Caroline, only dau. of Edwin Chambers Macreight, of Hauteville, Jersey;
_s.p._
[Illustration: =Kenneth S. McDonald.=]
=MACDONALD, RONALD MOSSE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron
Highlanders (the 79th), elder _s._ of Capt. William Mosse
Macdonald, of Glenmore Cottage, Bournemouth, formerly 3rd Battn.
Cameron Highlanders, by his wife, Helena, dau. of Samuel Harvey
Twining; _b._ Bombay, 9 Dec. 1890; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury;
Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted
2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 16 Nov. 1910, and promoted Lieut.,
1 May, 1914; left Edinburgh with his regt. for the Front, 12 Aug.
following; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, during the heavy
fighting to the west of the sugar factory at Troyon, 14 Sept. 1914, on
which occasion the 1st Camerons lost 17 officers and 500 men, and was
invalided to Angers, France; rejoined his battn. 8 Oct., and was killed
at Veldhock, near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; _unm._ Lieut. Macdonald
was an excellent cricketer and played for the Aldershot Command for
two years. He was also an accomplished violinist. His only brother is
serving in the same regt.
[Illustration: =Ronald Mosse Macdonald.=]
=McDONNELL, THOMAS=, A.B., Sapper, No. 14, 1st Royal Australian
Naval Bridging Train, yst. _s._ of the late Thomas McDonnell,
of Newfound Well, Drogheda, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William
Keeley, of Drogheda; _b._ Newfound Well, 12 Feb. 1885; educ. at
the Christian Brothers School, Drogheda; joined the Royal Naval Reserve
in 1902, was for several years in the employ of the Pacific Steam
Navigation Co., went to Australia in 1911, and in the early part of
1915 enlisted in the Australian Contingent at Victoria. In a letter to
his mother announcing this he said he knew she would be glad to know
he was doing his bit. He died on board H.M.S. Canada, 27 Aug. 1915, of
enteric fever, contracted while serving in the Dardanelles; _unm._
=MACDUFF, ALEXANDER=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron
Highlanders, only _s._ of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, co.
Perth, J.P., by his wife, Edith Alexandrine, dau. of John Shiell, of
Smithfield, co. Forfar; _b._ Bonhard, aforesaid, 6 July, 1884;
educ. Cargilfield, Winchester, and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. Cameron Highlanders, 19 April, 1905; promoted Lieut. 11 Jan.
1911, and Capt. 12 Oct. 1914; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was
killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 24
April, 1915; _unm._ Buried near where he fell.
=MACE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9390), S.S.
106745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McEVOY, MICHAEL=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1500U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=McEVOY, PATRICK=, Leading Stoker, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2899),
285115, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=McEWAN, ROBERT=, S.B.A., M. 5850, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MACFARLANE, JOHN SHEPHARD=, Private, No. 1819, F Coy., 9th
Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland L.I. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of
John Macfarlane, of 65, Reidvale Street, Dennistown, Glasgow, by
his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Cockburn; _b._ Glasgow, 10
Feb. 1897; educ. Thompson Street Public School; was in the employ of
Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Boilermakers; joined the
Glasgow Highlanders, 4 March, 1912; volunteered for foreign service
on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and
was killed in action at Richebourg, 17 May, 1915, by the bursting
of a shell. Buried there. A comrade wrote: “I suppose you know now
of our losses when in the trenches last time. One shell killed Hugh
Macpherson, George Laing, Wee McFarlane, and three others, also
wounded Lieut. Spens. I was at the door of the dug-out with my head
outside when this big shell came through the roof and burst inside.
When I got rid of the debris with which I was covered and looked in I
nearly collapsed. All were dead except the Lieut.” His elder brother.
L.-Corpl. David MacFarlane, was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, 7
Jan. 1916.
[Illustration: =John S. MacFarlane.=]
=MACFARLANE, ROBERT CRAIG=, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd _s._ of
Robert Craig Macfarlane, of Roode Berg, South Africa [s. of Alexander
Macfarlane, Jun., of Thornhill, Stirlingshire], by his wife, Jessie
Wardlaw, dau. of James Wardlaw Reid; _b._ Glendenning, Graaff
Reinet, South Africa, 5 July, 1897; educ. Ascham St. Vincent’s,
Eastbourne, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered
the Navy, June, 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was
torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
[Illustration: =Robert C. Macfarlane.=]
=McFARLANE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10630), S.S.
108637, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MACFIE, CLAUD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South
Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Bedfordshire Regt., only _s._ of
the late Claud Macfie, of Gogar Burn, Midlothian, by his wife, Mary
(Warrix, North Berwick), dau. of W. S. Young, of Burntisland; _b._
Gogar Burn aforesaid, 8 Dec. 1892; educ. at Cargilfield, Midlothian,
from which school he obtained a scholarship for Marlborough, where
he was in the Hockey XI and the Gymnasium VIII, and won the Fisher
Divinity Prize; afterwards proceeding to New College, Oxford, where he
graduated with honours in Modern History. It had been his intention to
enter the Diplomatic Service, but on the outbreak of war he enlisted
in Lovat’s Scouts, but being nominated by his college for a University
commission, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Staffordshires,
11 Nov. 1914. He went to the Front, 20 May, 1915. and was there
attached to the 2nd Bedfords. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 16
June, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on a German trench.
The official report of his death is as follows: “2nd Lieut. Macfie, C.
W., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshires, attd. 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt.,
Givenchy, June 16, killed, was in command of the first platoon which
assaulted the Crater. He led his platoon most gallantly and fearlessly,
and was killed shortly after his men obtained a footing in the enemy’s
lines.” The report was accompanied by the following message from the
General Officer Commanding, 7th Division, British Expeditionary Force,
to the deceased officer’s mother: “The enclosed is a report of the
action of 2nd Lieut. C. W. Macfie, 3rd South Staffordshire Regt., attd.
2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., as brought to Gen. Gough’s notice,
and he thinks you would like to have a copy. He cannot express too
deeply his opinion of this officer’s gallantry or his sympathy for
you in your great loss.” The Officer Commanding 2nd Bedfords wrote:
“He died a glorious soldier’s death, leading his platoon gallantly
against the enemy. We took the enemy’s trench, but unfortunately were
unable to retain possession of it for long, and those who were left
got themselves away with difficulty and were unable to carry the dead
back, so I am very sorry to say that your son’s body was left where he
had met his end. I think I am allowed to tell you that I am reporting
to the Brigadier-General that he led his men with great dash and
gallantry, which was witnessed by several people. He had not been with
us long enough for us to get to know him well, but he showed signs of
making an excellent officer, and I am very sorry indeed to have lost
his services.” His company commander wrote of him: “He was an excellent
officer and a very good friend, and his behaviour under fire was the
finest example his men could have. He fell leading his men on after
we had captured the German trench on the top of the old Mine Crater.
This spot is quite close to the village of Givenchy, near Festubert”;
and an officer of his company: “He showed splendid spirit all the way
through and constantly went down along the trench to see that the men
were keeping their spirits up. When the attack was ordered, we had to
charge, one platoon at a time, and No. 8, your son’s, was the first to
leave the trench. Several officers of the other regts. besides those of
our own who were near, remarked upon the way your son led the charge;
he was easily the first man at the Germans, and he was seen climbing up
over the German ‘crater’ while the rest were still streaming across the
open. Soon afterwards he was killed.” 2nd Lieut. Macfie was mentioned
by Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French in his Despatch of 30 Nov.
1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished
service in the field. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Claud William Macfie.=]
=McGEACHIE, JAMES ANDERSON=, Private, No. 1218, 18th Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of William McGeachie, of
60, Jameson Terrace, New Milns, Ayrshire, by his wife, Margaret, dau.
of James Anderson, of Dalrymple, St. Girvan, Ayrshire; _b._ New
Milns, aforesaid, 22 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; went to
Australia in Feb. 1911, and settled at Stockenkingle, New South Wales;
was a Bushman; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force shortly
after the outbreak of war; left for Egypt about June, 1915; went to the
Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22
Aug. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =James A. McGeachie.=]
=McGINNITY, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6631), 215701, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.