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War
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The Entrance Porch and First World War Memorial in the Assembly Hall of the
Royal High School, Edinburgh
Photo : Scottish War Memorials Project in the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The First World War Memorial in the Assembly Hall of the Royal High School, Edinburgh is a Marble Porch flanked by dedicatory brass plaques. The upper architrave of the marble Doric portico is inscribed with a Greek phrase from Simonides which translates as 'They died but are not dead'.
183 names are commemorated on this memorial. A transcription of the names is given in the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials website.
One Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Lieutenant Duncan Crerar Reeve Millar.
13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached 21st T M battery RFA. Killed 10
April 1918.
Buried HAVERSKERQUE BRITISH CEMETERY.
The following comments are from the Find
a Grave website;-
"Lt. Duncan Crerar Reeve Millar enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion
at the outbreak of war in 1914. He was wounded in action and sent back to
Blighty for treatment. Subsequently, he returned to France serving with the
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) before being
transferred to the 13th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire
Hussars). At the time of his death he was attached to the 121st Trench Mortar
Battery, Royal Field Artillery. He died on the 10th April 1918 from wounds
sustained in action during the Battle of the Lys. He was 26 years old. £
The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Duncan Millar landed with the 13th battalion at Le Havre on June 6th
1915.
He saw action with the battalion in the Maroc and Loos sectors and in November
of 1917 fought during the Cambrai offensive in actions at Bourlon Wood.
By the time of the German Spring Offensive in March of 1918 Lt Millar had
been attached to the 21st Trench Mortar Battery and was with them when he
was wounded in action in the Hazebrouck area.
Lt Duncan Oscar Reeve Millar died of his wounds on April 10th 1918."
The
Right Hand Plaque of First World War Memorial in the Assembly Hall of the
Royal High School, Edinburgh
Photo : Scottish War Memorials Project in the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The
Royal High School, Edinburgh
Photo : Google Earth
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