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R.F.C, and after acting for a sliort period
as instructor, lie left for the front on Easter
Day.
His squadron Commander wrote of him : —
" He was getting: on splendidly and had
carried out some most successful artillery
observation. He w;is very keen, and we
were all fond of him.''
The Colonel commanding the Greys wrote :
— "I was specially proud of him, for his
squadron commander and all his brother
officers in the Flying Corps spoke so very
highly of his courage, ability, and person-
ality. The sergeant major of the squadron
. . . told me that the whole squadron
looked upon him as one of the most promis-
ing officers they had. He has died a credit
to his country, and the Greys and I can
give no man a higher testimonial than
this."
He has out^soared the shadow of our night :
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
Aiid that unrest which men. miscall delight
Can touch him not and torture not again :
From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now caix never mourn
A heart gi'own cold, a head grown grey in vain :
Nor, when the Spirit's self has ceased to burn.
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
GUNNER ANDREW STEWART
(Tbaquaik)
12th Heavy Battery, Eoyal Gareison
Artillery.
1917. July 12 (Thursday).
Andrew Stewart was employed with Mrs
Clark Cooper, Orchard Mains House, Tra-
quair, Innerleithen, as head gardener for 8i
years prior to enlistment in June, 1916.
Official particulars are as follows : — Regi-
mental No. 95273; rank, gunner; name, An-
drew Stewart; regiment, 12th Heavy Battery,
E.G.A.
He was killed in action on the 12th of
July, 1917, and buried in Belgian Battery
Corner, Military Cemetery, one mile south-
west of Tpres.
For some days there had been heavy
fighting on the Aisne, but the German at-
tacks were repulsed. The British line was
then stlightly advanqed on the Messines
front. On the 10th, after intense bombard-
ment, the Germans gained ground to the
east of the mouth of the Yser (Nieuport),
and cut off and destroyed parts of two Brit-
ish battalions, taking over a thousand prison-
ers. But the British counter attack drove
the Germans from the advanced positions
gained near Lombaertzyde. In the follow-
ing day the German attacks were repulsed.
So lone and cold they lie; but we.
We still have life; we may still greet
Our pleasant friends in home and street;
We still have life, are able still
To climb the turf of Cademuir hill.
To see the placid sheep go by.
To hear the sheep-dog's eager cry.
To feel the sun, to taste the rain,
To smell the autumn's scents again
Beneath the brown and gold and red
Which old October's brush has spread.
To hear the robin in the lane,
To look upon the Scottish sky.
LIEUT. ARCHIBALD B. MILLER
(Kirkued)
King's Own Scottish Bordeeees
(Attached Royal Flying Corps)
1917. July 13.
Lieutenant Archibald William Buchanan
Miller, K.O.S.B. (att. R.F.C), formerly re-
ported missing, Friday, July 13th, 1917, now
believed killed (says the "Court Journal"),
was the younger son of the Rev. T. D. and
Mrs Miller, of Kirkurd, Peeblesshire. He
was educated at Fettes College, where he
acquitted himself with distinction, and
played in the 1st XI. and the 1st XV. He
entered Sandhurst in 1914, and was gazetted
to the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Scot-
tish Borderers. On attaining his nineteenth
year, June 21st, 1915, he was sent as Sec-
ond-Lieutenant in command of a large draft
to the Dardanelles, and was promoted full
Lieutenant. After the evacuation ho served
with his regiment in France as adjutant.
In 1916 Lieutenant Miller received a com-
mission in the Eoyal Flying Corps. A fellow-
officer writes of him : — " We used to love it
when he came ' stunting ' over us either at
work or in the evening. We all thought him
extraordinarily courageous, and he could
do almost anything with the machine. I