Was born in 1885, and attended G.W.C. 1894-1901. In 1901 he became associated with an East India firm, and in 1910 was appointed to a position in their Calcutta house. A deacon in the Union Chapel (Congregational), Calcutta, he was Secy. of the Bengal Sunday School Union. Early in 1917 he joined the I.A.R.O., and while attached as 2/Lt. to the Sikh Pioneers was stricken with enteric fever, and passed away at Murree, Punjab, Sept. 6, 1917.
Quintin Dunlop Maxwell Dawson
RAOC
DELHI WAR CEMETERY
Quintin D. M. Dawson, Sergeant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, was the elder son of the late Dr. Dawson and Mrs. Dawson, 32 Lauder Road, Edinburgh. Born in 1911 , he attended Watson's from 1923 to 1928. After serving an apprenticeship with Messrs. J. M. Geoghegan & Co., Chartered Accountants, Edinburgh, he transferred to the Agricultural Development Organisation, Rutland Street, Edinburgh, where he remained until the outbreak of war. Enlisting in the R.A.O.C. in September 1939 he saw service in France and was seriously wounded in June 1941 on board the Lancastria. He was subsequently posted to India where he died on 2nd June 1942.
The younger son of Mr. J. A. Dawson, Edin., was born in 1896 and attended G.W.C. 1901-12, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and attained distinction as a marksman. He served his apprenticeship in the grain trade at Leith, and in March 1915 joined the 2/9th R.S. In July 1916 he obtained a commission in the 3rd Bn. of the same regiment. Temporarily attached to the 2nd R.S., he was killed in action Nov. 13, 1916, at Beaumont Hamel,
The only son of Mr. W. Deane, Kotigiri, S. India, was born in 1891, and came to G.W.C. in 1904. A lad of singularly engaging looks and character, he was prominent in all the athletic activities of the School, maintaining at the same time the record of a most painstaking and brilliant scholar. He was Capt. of the School in 1909-10 and Cdt. Lt. in the O.T.C. the same year. After serving his apprenticeship as a mining engineer on the Tyne coalfield, he became assistant to the consulting engineer in the Dover Colliery, Kent. Enlisting as a Tpr. in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry, he was soon granted a commission in the 6th S. Wales Borderers. Rapid promotion followed. He won the M.C. and the D.S.O., and rising to the rank of Lt.-Col. he eventually took command of the Bn. he had entered as a subaltern. He was killed near Rosnay, May 29, 1918.
The only son of Mrs. Deas, Kirkcaldy, was born in 1888, and attended G.W.C. 1902-5. On the outbreak of war he gave up a lucrative appointment in Canada, and came to this country to enlist. Gazetted to the 11th A. and S. H., he proceeded to France in July 1915. He was severely wounded at Loos on Sept. 25, and died a week later.
Alfred J. O. Dempsey, Lieutenant, Royal Scots Fusiliers, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dempsey, 2 8 Mardale Crescent, Edinburgh, was born on 1st May 1916 and attended Watson's from 1921 to 1934. When at school he was a good all-round athlete and played rugby, hockey, tennis and golf. A member of the staff of the Royal Bank of Scotland, he joined the Territorials in 1938. After serving for eighteen months with an anti-aircraft battery at Gibraltar, he was commissioned and transferred to the Royal Scots Fusiliers. With his regiment he went to Holland in October 1944, and was killed in action on 26th October 1944.
Adam O. Dempster, Captain, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was the only son of the late Mr. Adam Dempster, General Manager of The British Linen Bank, and of Mrs. Dempster, 17 Corrennie Drive, Edinburgh. Born in 1917, he attended Watson's from 1922 to 1934, when he joined the staff of The British Linen Bank. He showed much promise as a golfer and was a member of the Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society, Craigmillar Park, and Watsonian Golf Clubs, and took part in the Dispatch Trophy Tournament. He was a keen angler. He was accidentally killed in August 1943 while serving in Egypt.
The son of Mr. J. Dick, Dunfermline, was born in 1897, and received his early education at Dunfermline High School. He attended G.W.C. 1910-14. Enlisting in the R.H. in Oct. 1915, he went to France in March 1916, and fell at Mailly-Mailly on the Somme while doing duty with a regimental carrying party.
Robert Dickson, Major, Royal Engineers, the son of Mrs. J. G. Dickson, late of 16 Craiglockhart Road, Edinburgh, left school in 1918 and graduated B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Edinburgh University. He spent sixteen years in Peru with the International Petroleum Co., and on returning home was appointed Resident Engineer at Taynuilt under the Ministry of Transport. Later he joined the R.E. and saw service at Dunkirk. Major Dickson was an excellent muscian, and played the 'cello, violin and bagpipes. He was killed in a shooting accident on 22nd June 1942.
A son of Mr. W. M. Dingwall, banker, Dingwall, was born in 1896, and was educated at the Royal Academy, Inverness, and at G.W.C. 1908-12. He went to N.S. Wales on leaving School, to learn farming. On the outbreak of war he joined the 5th Australian Infy. Bde., and proceeded to Egypt, whence he crossed to Gallipoli. He came through much hard fighting scatheless, but in the end fell a victim to meningitis, and died at Lemnos Jan. 4, 1916.
