Second Lieutenant Halliday Gordon GILLIES (Did not matriculate)

1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Born 21 June 1897
Missing, presumed killed in action, 13 November 1916, aged 19
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated by an oak and ebony lectern at Lesmahagow Old Parish Church.

Halliday Gillies was the son of Revd James Gillies and Helen, née Halliday, of The Manse, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was later the senior chaplain to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1916.

He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Eton College, and elected to a Chambers Postmastership in 1916.

He entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 18 July 1916, and went on to serve in France.

He was posted as missing, presumed killed in action at Serre, on 13 November 1916, one of 201 casualties the battalion suffered that day.