HLI Chronicle 1914 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

~~~-Major-General C. H. Powell, C.B , late of theIndian Army, and a grandson of the lateJ\>Ir. James Mackenzie of Auchenheglish, Dunbartonshire.He was educated at Winchesterand afterwards at Cambridge, and joined theHighland Light Infantry on the 3rd ofSeptember, 1912.HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE.---------------------He was predeceased by his elder brothersome years ago, the late Lieut. R.F. N. KeithMacdonald, 4th Battalion H.L.I., who wason active service in the South African War.Much sympathy is felt for his widowed motherand sisters.-The Oban Times, 17th October,1914.2ND LIEUT. C. L. MACKENZIE.2nd Lieut. Colin Landseer Mackenzie, killedin action, was just twenty-two, and waseducated at Cheltenham. He was gazetted tothe Regiment on the 24th of May last year.2ND LIEUT. E. R. H. K. MACDONALD.2nd Lieut. Evan Ronald Horatio KeithMacdonald joined the 3rd Battalion H.L.I.on the 3rd of July, 1912, and was gazetted tothe 2nd Battalion on the 10th of June thisyear.THE GALLANT DEAD.LIEUT. EVAN MACDONALD KILLED IN ACTION.SECOND LIEUTENANT EVAN RONALDHORATIO KEITH MACDONALD, of the 2nd Bat­'talion Highland Light Infantry, is reportedby the War Office as having been killed inaction on the 21st September at the Battleof the Aisne. He was the only surviving sonof the late Dr. Keith Norman Macdonald,M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collectorof, and authority on, Highland music, andMrs. Macdonald, 21. Clarendon Crescent,. Edinburgh. He was the grandson of Lieut.Charles Macdonald of Ord, Skye. He waskeenly interested in everything Highland, andloved to play the slower music of the piobmhor.Born in Skye, he was proud of being a Skyeman.The martial race of Macdonalds hecame of, by their valour and heroic conductin the field, in the Indian Wars, and in thePeninsular Campaigns. shed honour andlustre on their native isle. He was· an oldEdinburgh Institution boy, and was a keenathlete. While at school he captained thefirst fifteen in seasons 1910-11-12, and afterwardsplayed in the former pupils' team.At the school sports in 1911 he won the cupfor the mile race, and was at the time of hisdeath one of the secretaries of the InstitutionAthletic Sports. Of a manly and lovablenature, his early death is very much regrettedby his schoolfellows and brother officers.OFFICERS OF THE IDGHLAND LIGHTINFANTRY REPORTED KILLEDAND WOUNDED.KILLED IN ACTION.Lieut. Sir A. C. Gibson-Craig, Bart.2nd Lieut. J. A. H. Fergusson.2nd Lieut. R. C. Ff. Powell.2nd Lieut. C. L. Mackenzie.2nd Lieut. E. R. H. K. Macdonald.WOUNDED.Captain A. W. D. Gaussen.Captain C. T. Martin.Captain and Adjutant J. H. Hope.Lieut. A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett.Lieut. W. Lilburn.Lieut. G. M. Gerard.Lieut. J. M'D. Latham.2nd Lieut. R. A. F. Whistler.1st Batt. H.L.I.Lieut. E. E. Loch (in Kamaruns).ROLL OF N.C.O.'s AND MEN OF THE HIGHLANDLIGHT INFANTRY KILLED, DIED OFWOUNDS, AND WOUNDED IN ACTION.K.1:LLED IN ACTION AND DIED 011' WOUNDS. 8731 Pte. A. Rowell, died from wounds. 12014 Pte. J. Johnstone, died from wounds. 10926 Pte. H. S. C. Berry, died from wounds. 9744 Pte. J. Reynolds, died from wounds. 9610 Pte. J. Lang, died from wounds. 7980 Pte. G. Kidd, died from wounds. 8591 Pte. A. J. Bailey, died from wounds. 8090 Pte. R. M. Souter, died from wounds. 10679 Pte. A. J. Starr, killed in action. 9055 Pte. J. Thompson, killed in action. 9683 Pte. J. Boyle, killed in action. 11855 Pte. J. C. Harry, killed in action. 7442 Bugler W. C. Brady, killed in action. 9940 Pte. D. Cownie, killed in action. 8683 Pte. J. H. Edwards, killed in action. 10537 Pte. C. E. Jepps, killed in action. 8664 Pte. E. Keen, killed in action. 11945 Pte. W. Magihon, killed in action. 10997 Pte. P. Moore, killed in a.ction. 10118 Pte. J. Murray, killed in a.ction. 8757 Pte. C. Munday, killed in action. 11870 L.-Corpl. J. Roylance, killed in action. 8705 Pte. W. Rixon, killed in action.