LIEUT. DONALD ALISTER GREER, ADJUTANT 1ST BATTN. CONNAUGHT RANGERS. DIED JULY 12TH, 1916, OF ENTERIC, AT AMARA. AGED 21. At the School 1909—12 (School House). Donald Alister Greer was the son of the late Henry Francis Greer, of Glenbarr, Palmerston Road, Dublin, and Bernagh House, Dungannon, and the only son of Mrs, H. F. Greer, 85, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. He came to Tonbridge in September, 1909, from Castle Park, Dalkey,and left at Christmas, 1912. He was in the XV. in his last year and a Corporal in the O.T.C., obtained his 3rd XI. Colours in Cricket, and was also a keen swimmer. On leaving School he went to Trinity College, Dublin, and later joined the Engineering School there. In August, 1914, he entered Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Connaught Rangers, December 16th, 1914. He joined his Battalion in France, May 1st, 1915, and from that time till the following December they were in the fighting line with the Lahore Division, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Neuve Chapelle and Festubert. On September 28rd, 1915, he was promoted Lieutenant. In December the Battalion was ordered to Mesopotamia with the Lahore Division, and Lieut. Greer became Adjutant on January 19th, 1916. He was with the Relief Column during the subsequent severe fighting and, in a letter expressing his great interest in a copy of THE TONBRIDGIAN that he had just received, he told of his experience in a big attack on January 21st. " I was in advance," he wrote, "with the Colonel, and we were getting badly knocked about by the Turkish rifle and machine-gun fire, which is magnificent. We made a rush for the next bit of trench, and as I flung myself into the miserable little trench, some one yelled out, 'Hallo, Greer!' and turning round I saw Roger Le Fleming (1918, P.H., 2nd Lt. Ind. Army, 102nd K.E.O. Grenadiers) next to me. He had just been grazed in the head by a bullet, but was all right. I had no idea he was in the country, and I am sure he had no idea I was even in the service." He went on to tell that the Colonel was badly wounded before reaching the trench, and in telling of his own loss of his haversack revealed that he went back into the open to attend to his Colonel. On May 8th he wrote: " As you know, Kut has fallen, which is of course a great blow to us . . . but it is no use worrying about it. We had some very fierce fighting the week before it fell, and this Regiment and Brigade did some glorious work, and the Turks own up to 10,000 casualties for their counter-attack. I shall never forget that night, as from 7.30 p.m. till 4.00 a.m. they were never further than 50 yards from us and all round us, and we were about 1,000 yards from the rest of the force; but thanks to our machine guns they never captured us or our position." In his last letter, dated June 2nd, he wrote: " We are only four miles from Kut now, and we can make out the buildings with the naked eye. How I wish we could have got there a month ago instead of now! " When he fell ill in June with enteric and complications, he was the last officer still with the Battalion of those who originally landed with the Relief Force, and he had never been away from the Regiment for a day. After showing the greatest patience and courage he became unconscious about July 1st and passed away on the 12th in the Hospital at Amara. He was mentioned in the Despatch from Lt.-Gen. Sir Percy Lake, dated August 24th, 1916, and his CO. wrote : " The honour was never more fully and worthily earned." All letters testify to his great value and popularity in the Regiment, and his first Colonel wrote of him:— " I feel like a father for Donald. If he had survived and kept his health, all the prizes of the Service lay at his feet. Consummate pluck, excellent, well-informed natural abilities; a poise and judgment unparalleled in my experience of newly-joined subalterns; unselfish devotion to his Battalion, sound military instincts and an irresistible charm of manner: all these were his. I just loved that boy." The Quartermaster, too, wrote of him:— " He knew no fear. He was such a man, a hero and a Connaught Ranger out and out, a fact of which he was very proud. He lived for the Regiment."