A simple act of remembrance - one of many the UofG has been holding since 2014 - honoured the members of the University community who fell at the start of the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele - one hundred years ago.

The University has been marking the deaths of all those staff, students and alumni who died in the Great War.

Among those who were killed on the opening day of the battle was Captain James Barbour Orr, brother of the UofG Nobel Peace Prize winner, nutritionist and physiologist John Boyd Orr. James, who studied at the UofG in the early 1900s, died leading his men on the opening day of the battle, not far from the site of the huge Menin Gate war memorial.

Those from the University also honoured yesterday, who died on July 29, 30 or 31st, were:

  • Major James Aitken Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Lance Corporal William Miller 7th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
  • 2nd Lieutenant Rodger Hay Ashton 2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
  • Captain David Arthur Indian Medical Service - 7th Bn. Rajputs - Indian Establishment
  • 2nd Lieutenant William Sewell Calderwood 8th Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • Private James Clouston 1st/6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
  • Captain Bentley Moore Hunter Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 1st Bn. Cambridgeshire Regiment
  • Private John Tannahill Kelly 25th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Captain Eoin Leitch 5th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
  • Captain George Clark Percy 3rd Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

 

   

First published: 31 July 2017

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