LIEUTENANT DUNCAN STUART ROSS MACPHERSON
7TH GURKHA RIFLES
23RD NOVEMBER 1914 AGE 25
BURIED: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, VLAMERTINGHE, FRANCE
Major General William Grant Macpherson was the Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the author of its official history. His only child, Duncan Macpherson, was killed in action at Festubert on 23 November 1914. Although he was apparently never prepared to talk about the death of his son, as an old boy he was prepared to unveil the Fettes School war memorial. This was dedicated to the 246 old boys who lost their lives in the war, among them Duncan, his only child.