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

IN MEMORIAM.
career, the call for service came, he recognized
that 1 1 lis was his work, and volunteered at once.
Enlisting in the
R===SJ=SEj^=SjjSI Hawke Battalion
Royal Naval Division,
8 October 1914, he
served at Gallipoli un-
til our forces were
withdrawn, then pro-
ceeded with his Bat-
talion to France, took
part in the great charge
at Beaucourt in No-
vember 1 916, when he
was slightly wounded,
and was killed in action
at Beaumont Hamel, 22 January 191 7. One
who knew him well writes : " He volunteered at
once and in that and in his service acted with
cheerful alacrity and unselfish courage ".
HORNE, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON :
Lance-Corporal, 4th Battalion Gordon
Highlanders ; son
of Alexander B.
Home, druggist ; born
Aberdeen, 22 June
1887; educated Ash-
ley Road Public School
and Robert Gordon's
College, Aberdeen ;
Bronze Medallist,
Gordon's College,
1901 ; graduated M. A.,
1909. For five and a
half years he taught as
an assistant master in
Peterhead Academy, then at the Middle School,
Aberdeen, and later at Bishopbriggs and Chry-
ston Schools, Glasgow.
During his University days Home was an en-
thusiastic member of the Gordons. In July 1916
he rejoined his old regiment, and in October of
that year went to France. Towards the end of
December he was wounded and sent to Eng-
land, where he died in Duston Military Hospital
on 22 January 191 7.
There are few men whose place in their pro-
fession would be more difficult to fill. To
Home teaching was something more than a
profession, education was a high ideal and the
study of child nature a worthy life's work.
From his schooldays onwards he was thorough,
painstaking and methodical to a most unusual
degree, whilst his cheery wit and his unfailing
good nature and kindliness endeared him to a
lartre circle.
ELLIS : Captain,
son of James Milne ;
MILNE, JOSEPH
R.A.M.C. ; D.S.O. ;
born Fraserburgh, j;o
September 1868 ; edu-
cated at Aberdeen
Grammar School ;
graduated M. A., 1888;
M.B. (Hon. Dist),
1 891; M.D. (Com.),
1894.
When war broke out
Ellis Milne was in a
large practice in Aber-
deen. Commissioned
Lieutenant, 25 April
1 91 5, he left next day
for France with the Highland Casualty Clear-
ing Station. On 1 November 191 5 he became
Medical Officer to the i/8th Battalion (Irish) of
the King's Liverpool Regiment. In Octo-
ber 1 916 he was awarded the Distinguished
Service Order for his work in the Battle of the
Somme — " For conspicuous gallantry and de-
votion to duty during operations. He has
repeatedly tended the wounded under heavy
shell fire, and has shown himself utterly regard-
less of personal safety." In Sir Douglas Haig's
New Year's Dispatch 19 17 he was mentioned
for work done after receiving the D.S.O. He
was killed in action near Ypres on 22 February
Joseph Ellis Milne had a dynamic personality.
An iron will endowed him with great powers of
physical and mental endurance. A high con-
ception of duty was united to a complete in-
difference to personal danger, a heart in
sympathy with each Irish lad brought him the
love of all in the Battalion. He met his death
by rifle bullet in the trenches. Such a daunt-
less spirit, no matter his tale of years, could
not have worked happily outside the Great
War.
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