Reid, George
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment: 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of George Reid, timber merchant ; born Banff, 3 June 1891 ; educated Banff and Fordyce Academies ; entered the University 1910 ; student in Arts, 1910-12, student in Medicine, 1912-14. He joined "U" Company, 4th Gordon Highlanders in 1910, and was mobilized on the outbreak of war, serving at home from 4 August 1914 to 19 February 1915, and in France and Flanders in those grim days of 1915 and 1916. He was twice wounded, first in April 1915 at Hill 60 whilst bringing in a wounded comrade after another man had been killed in the attempt, and again at Loos, 25 September 1915. On his return to the Battalion he acted as Medical Orderly until he was gazetted to the 6th Gordon Highlanders, 22 February 1917. His career as an officer was very brief, for he was killed in action at Arras, 9 April 1917. "Joe" Reid, as we always called him, was an exceptionally fine soldier and a very brave man, endowed with the quiet courage and determination that invariably accompany the finer spirit, whilst only those who called him friend could rightly appraise that friendship.
Date of Death: 09 April 1917
Burial Details: Buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery, Plot 1, Row B, Grave 3.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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