A son of Mr. W. H. Cook, Georgetown, British Guiana, was born in 1896, and attended G.W.C. 1908-14. In his last year at School he was Capt. of the 1st XI. After studying medicine at Edin. Univ. for one year, he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., and in Jan. 1917 was commissioned. Attached to the 23rd Manchester Refit., he served in France, where he fell in action at Houthulst Forest, Oct. 22, 1917.
A son of the late R. Copland, was born in 1885, and entered G.W.C. in 1898. Leaving in 1900, he was employed for eleven years in the office of Messrs. Douglas and Coy., Searchers of Public Records. He was associated with the 2nd Vol. Bn. R.S. and the Boys' Brigade. In 1911 he left for Lagos, S. Nigeria, but, shortly after war broke out, returned and joined the 5th R.S. as a Pte. He was wounded at the Dardanelles July 6, 1915, and died aboard the hospital ship Dongola on the following day.
The eldest son of Mr. R. Couper, Edin., was born in 1894, and attended G.W.C. 1899-1909. As scrum-half he played for Lauriston House XV. while at School, and later was a member of Watsonian 'A' and Trinity XVs. He left the service of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Coy. to enlist in the 9th H.S. in 1914, and served with his Bn. in Flanders. After coming unscathed through the heavy fighting at St. Julien, he was home on leave in Edin., when he died at Colinton Hospital.
Was born in Kirkcaldy in 1887, and, after receiving his early education at Kirkcaldy High School, attended G.W.C. 1902-4. He qualified as a C.A., and in 1913 was appointed Asst. Auditor in N.H.I., Audit Dept., in Aberdeen. A keen Territorial, he was a Pte. in the 4th R.S., and was gazetted to the Gordon Hrs. in Apr. 1914, and promoted Lt. six months later. He was posted missing at Hooge Sept. 25, 1915. It subsequently transpired that he held an isolated post for sixteen hours, and was killed while tending the wounded.
A son of Mr. W. Cowan, Edin., was born in 1896, and attended G.W.C. 1909-13. He then proceeded to Skerry's College for a business training. One of the finest swimmers the School ever had, in 1914 he won the Warrender Baths Club Championship, besides gaining many other prizes and certificates for swimming. He was apprenticed to a Leith distilling firm when war broke out. Joining the 9th R.S., he proceeded to France, and was killed in action at Ypres, May 8, 1915.
A son of Mr. Neil Cowan, of Haarlem, Fouriesburg, S. Africa, was born in 1896, and attended G.W.C. 1910-14. He returned to S. Africa and took up farming. Joining the 4th Regt. of S.A. Infy., as a Pte., he saw active service, and fell in May 1917.
A son of the late A. Cowe, J.P., Penicuik, was born in 1890, and was a pupil at G.W.C. for three years, leaving as Lizars prizeman in 1908. He graduated M.B. Ch.B. with Hons. at Edin. Univ. in 1913, gaining a King Edward VII. scholarship. After studying for a year at Freiburg, he was appointed House Surgeon in King Edward VII. Hospital, Windsor. Gazetted to the R.A.M.C. in 1915, he served in France for eighteen months and was invalided home. Holding the rank of Capt., he returned to the Front in Sept. 1917, and was killed in action near the village of Mosselmarkt, Passchendaele, Dec. 2, 1917.
The elder son of Mr. G. W. Cowie, Newport, Mon., was born in 1893, and attended G.W.C. 1905-11. He was a good athlete, both in School and afterwards. On the outbreak of war he left the employment of a firm of solicitors in Newport to enlist in the 1st Monmouthshire Regt. In Apr. 1915 he was wounded at Ypres, and in Oct. 1915 was given a commission in the Royal Welsh Fus. He was wounded again at Delville Wood in July 1916. In 1918 he was promoted Capt. and won the M.C. He fell in action near Rheims on May 30, 1918, during the German Offensive.
The son of Mr David Craig of Preston Street East, he was born in Perth in 1868 and entered GWBC in 1875. After training as a mechanical engineer with Hawthorn & Co, Leith, he emigrated, aged 29, to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Manager of the Golden Zone Gold Mine. In December 1915 he joined the AIF, reducing his age by 4 years. He served with the 48th Bn at Berteaucourt and at Pozieres, part of the Somme offensive. Cpl. 1916. Wounded in action on 16 November 1916, he died the following day.
The youngest son of the late W. Craig, Edin., was born in 1889, and entered G.W.C. in 1900. Prior to the war he served for eight years on the staff of the Northern Assurance Coy., in Edin. and Portsmouth. In Oct. 1914 he rejoined the 4th R.S., with which unit he took part in the Gallipoli campaign. After seven months' service in Egypt, he returned home and received a commission in the M.G.C. (Jan. 1917). Proceeding to France in Apr. of that year, he was wounded at Ypres in Aug., and gained the M.C. After short convalescence he was again sent to France, where he fell in action at Bailleul during the German Offensive, Apr. 17, 1918.
