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He was brought up in the sunshine of a cultured home, and when his father
died he and his brother Jean centred all their love and devotion on their mother.
" East or west," to them home was ever best. On leaving School Emile entered
a bank, where his integrity, fidelity, and zeal received full recognition. When
he was of military age he followed his brother Jean into the A. & S.H. He
proceeded to France in the autumn of 1917, where he proved himself a brave,
reliable, cheery soldier. His regiment played a great part in the Cambrai
retreat, and throughout all the hardships and privations it entailed Emile
" carried on " in his old tranquil, uncomplaining fashion. In March, 1918,
he was home on leave, and every one in School was delighted to see what a
fine, manly, stalwart fellow he had grown. He returned to France as the great
push was beginning, but was detained at the base for some time, and so missed
that experience. He wrote home to say that he was joining up his division, the
famous 51st, which had been ordered north for a rest. There, however, the
tempest of battle broke on them again with renewed fury, and the gallant Emile
fell mortally wounded on the 12th April. His company commander writes, " His
comrades all speak highly of him, and he was both an efficient soldier and a
gallant gentleman." The sincerest and tenderest sympathy of the School goes
out to his widowed mother, who has given both her sons to the great cause.
JEAN ULYSSE ROBERT/TISSQT
Private, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
Jean Ulysse Robert-Tissot was the elder son of the late L. E. Robert-Tissot,
M.A.(Oxon), for many years Lecturer in French at the Athenaeum, Glasgow, and
of Mrs. Robert-Tissot, 7 Rupert Street, W. Jean, as he was familiarly known,
was a prime favourite at School both with masters and pupils. He took a
philosophical view of life, and found humour in things where others found tears.
He had good ability, but preferred the bypaths to the high roads of learning.
In his fine courtesy, perfect manners, and kindly wit he was typically French,
and his soft liquid accents will long linger in the memory of his old schoolfellows.
On leaving School he joined the firm of Messrs. Spencer, Moulton & Co., motor
tyre manufacturers, by whom his sterling character and devoted services were
greatly esteemed. Early in 1916 he joined the Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers, and after a short period of training proceeded to France. He saw
much hard fighting and endured many hardships, but he accepted everything
with unperturbed tranquillity. On the morning of 21st August, 1917, during
an advance in Flanders he was struck by a piece of shrapnel, and died im-
mediately. The gallant Jean now rests in a British cemetery together with many
other " kindly Scots " who fell the same day. The heartfelt sympathy of the
School goes out to his widowed mother.
JOHN TODD, M.M.
Sergeant, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Sergeant John Todd was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Todd, 9
Huntly Terrace, North Kelvinside. He was a fine type of pupil, courteous,
attentive, diligent, emphatically a " trier." A sense of humour is usually a
late development of schoolboys, but with John Todd it showed itself early, and
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