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good quarters, good food, interesting work, and, most important of all, fine company,
both officers and men. The battery has had a very heavy time of it, but, in spite
of that, they are all bright and cheery, thankful for quieter times and a whole skin.
They are just a real British lot freshened up again by a short spell of what they call
rest, but what would seem to folks at home jolly hard work." In the same letter
he promises if he can at all find time to write a short article for the School Magazine.
But it was otherwise willed. On the 11th April, 1918, the Germans began their
great thrust for the Channel ports, and John M'Intosh fell in a gallant attempt to
stem the onrush when the Portuguese lines broke. A fellow officer writes, " As
always, on that morning nothing kept him back from doing the right thing. His
life was ended in an endeavour to carry out the highest duty of an officer, that of
conveying an order himself rather than risk the lives of his men — a heroic deed,
none the less great because unrecorded in official records." His commanding
officer says, " He died doing his duty most bravely under exceptionally trying
circumstances. Those of us who are left will feel his loss greatly. I cannot say
enough of his work in the short time he has been with me." And so in death as in
life John M'Intosh proved himself " a veray parfit, gentil knight."
PETER M'INTYRE
Private, 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private Peter M'Intyre was the eldest son of the late Captain M'Intyre and
Mrs. M'Intyre, 437 Great Western Road. At School he was a quiet, retiring youth,
with strong artistic tastes. While at School he obtained a Bursary for Drawing, and
continued his Art studies for several years in evening classes. On leaving School
he entered the office of Mr. John H. Stewart, factor, 116 St. Vincent Street. When
war was declared he offered himself for enlistment, but was rejected because of his
eyesight. In 1915 he was more successful, and was posted to the 15th Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders. In July, 1916, he was sent to France, and attached to
the second battalion of the same regiment. He came safely through the heavy
fighting of the next two years, but on the 24th September, 1918, when the end was
already in sight, he was killed at .Villars-Geshlin. Private M'Intyre's father, a
master mariner, who kept to the sea in spite of the fact that his vessel was torpedoed
more than once and he himself posted as lost, finally met his death by enemy action
in the Straits of Messina in January, 1918. The heartfelt sympathy of the School
goes out to Mrs. M'Intyre and family in this double bereavement.
FRANK R. MACKENZIE
2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Batt. Seaforth Highlanders
(Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
Frank R. Mackenzie was a pupil in Hillhead High School during the years
1895-99. On leaving School he entered the employment of Messrs. J. & W.
Campbell, warehousemen, Ingram Street, Glasgow. He was an enthusiastic Volun-
teer, and served for nearly ten years in the 1st L.R.V. and 5th Scottish Rifles. In
August, 1915, he joined the University O.T.C., and in November obtained a com-
mission in the 10th Seaforth Highlanders. After a short period of training he
went to France in March, 1916, and was attached to the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders.
In the Big Push of 1st July, 1916, the Seaforths broke far into the enemy's lines,
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