Organisations > University of Aberdeen roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919

IN ME MORI AM.
He joined the Boy Scouts in 1909, and in
the first months of the war he did good seryice
in charge of a troop
assisting the Coast-
guard at Cruden Bay.
At the University he
joined the Officers
Training Corps, and
when it was decided
that all first and second
year medical students
should join up he ob-
tained a commission
in the 5 th Gordon
Highlanders, Decem-
ber 1915. After train-
ing at various camps in England he was sent
to France on 1 July 19 16, and went through
the first Battle of the Somme. In October
of that year he joined the Royal Flying Corps
as an observer, and was just up for his last
flight to obtain his " wings " when a bullet
from an enemy aeroplane rendered him un-
conscious, and he died in hospital soon after,
7 January 1917. A fellow-officer writes: "a
life like his was so transparently beautiful and
sincere that it needs no eulogies
he lived — a British gentleman ".
he died as
BURGESS, DUNCAN : Lieutenant-Col-
onel, R.A.M.C. ; son of Gregor Burgess,
Achnacoille ; born
Cromdale, 2 1 August
1850 ; educated For-
dyce Academy and
Aberdeen Grammar
School ; graduated
M.A. with First Class
Honours in Mathe-
matics at Aberdeen in
1868; M.B. (Camb.);
FRCP. (Lond.);
elected Perpetual Fel-
low, Corpus C h r i s t i
College, Cambridge ;
studied at various continental Universities, in-
cluding Prague, Wurzburg and Vienna.
Professor Burgess then settled in Sheffield,
and was for many years on the staff of Sheffield
General (afterwards Royal) Hospital where he
became Senior Physician, holding also the post
of Lecturer in Medicine in Sheffield University
College, and, on the foundation of Sheffield
University, he became Professor of Medicine.
He was one of the members of the Sheffield
Medico-Chirurgical Society chosen in 1890 to
visit Berlin and report on Professor Koch's
treatment of tubercular disease.
At the outbreak of war Professor Burgess
was appointed Officer in Charge of the Medical
Section, Third Northern General Hospital,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The
strain of the work proved at length too much
for his strength, and he died in Sheffield on
17 January 191 7.
GALLOWAY, JOHN : Corporal, 40th Bat-
talion Australians (Tasmanian Conting-
ent, B.E.F.); son of
Tohn Galloway,
H.M.I.S. ; born Dum-
fries, 11 November
1881 ; educated at
Gordon's College ;
studied Arts and Sci-
ence at Aberdeen Uni-
versity, 1904-06. For
a short time he was on
the staff of the "Aber-
deen Free Press " and
then went to London.
Some years ago he
emigrated to Tasmania, where he became a suc-
cessful fruit farmer.
In May 191 6 Galloway enlisted in the 40th
Battalion Australians (Tasmanian Contingent)
and landed at Plymouth, December 19 16, but
on the voyage he contracted a bad cold which
had fatal results. He died in hospital at Salis-
bury, 17 January 19^7, his comrades testifying
to their respect for his personal character and
his work.
COWIE, JOHN WINCHESTER : Sea-
man, Hawke Battalion, R.N.D. ; son of
George Cowie, fisherman ; born Buckie, 5 July
1891 ; Arts student, 1911-13, thereafter clerk
with Messrs. Murray & Cowie, fish salesmen,
Buckie. Cowie was in doubt as to his future
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