Lieutenant E.A. Mackintosh M.C. 1893-21 novembre 1917 à Cantaing sur Escaut Nord

Lt. E.Alan MACKINTOSH Bom: Brighton 1893 . Educated:govemess,Brigton College, St.Paul's School,Kensington , Chist Church, Oxford 1912-1914 .

Commissioned into5th(Sutherland and Caithness) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders .Served in France August 1915 until wounded at the end of july 1916. Won M.C. for leading a trench raid near Roclincourt,near Arras, 16thMay 1916 . After recuperating from his injuries was instructor to officer cadets in Cambridge . Became engaged to Sylvia .

Volunteered to retum to France in September 1917, killed near Cantaing on 21 November 1917, in the Battle of Cambrai .

Soldier poet:

Ghosts of War(October 1917)

This is our Earth baptizèd

With the red wine of war

Horror and courage hand in hand

Shall brood upon this stricken land

In silence evermore

To the Highland Division

High Wood

The wild war pipes were calling,

Our hearts were blithe and free

When we went up the valley

To the death we could not see.

These last lines of A Creed are on The Call, in Princes Street Gardens Edinburgh

If it is life that waits!shall live for ever unconquered,

If death!shall die at last strong in my pride and free.

(Vimy Ridge 1916)