Wark, Hugh Alexander
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Biography: Son of Rev. James Wark ; born Banchory, 8 June 1894 ; educated Aberdeen Grammar School and University. At the outbreak of war he was in his third year at Arts, and reading for Honours in English. He had already shown promise of fine scholarship, and was hoping to enter the ministry. Rejected after three efforts to join the University Company of the Gordon Highlanders, he went to Banchory and enlisted in the local Territorial Battalion in November 1914. After a year's home service he received a commission, and was sent to France with the 6th Gordons. There, after two years and four months of service, during which he was mentioned in dispatches, he was killed in action on 14 March 1918. Wark is remembered by his college friends as essentially boyish—light-hearted, eager, humourous, full of enthusiasms. Through all his life shone the same sense of devotion, of dedication which had inspired his choice of profession ; and he carried out his duties in the Army "as part of the service of the Kingdom of God". He loved the country, the sweetness of the woods and hills, poetry, games—everything that was youthful and clean and vigorous ; and he lived and died a boy, doing the part of a man and a soldier.
Date of Death: 14 March 1918
Burial Details: Buried at Red Cross Corner Cemetery, Beugny, Plot 1, Row J, Grave 1.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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