Burnie, Roy MacLean 5260 ( - 1916)

Lance Corporal, 9th Bn. Higland Light Infantry

Buried at Thiepval Memorial

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

The elder son of Mr. Robert Burnie, photographer, 86 Woodlands Road, Lance Corporal Roy Burnie was a member of the first Cadet Corps formed in connection with the School. He had a passion for music, which formed almost his only recreation. He was for years a student at the late Mr. Macbeth's College of Music, and was later a prominent member of the Lyric Operatic Club, and had usually a leading part in the operas presented by them. Early in the war he joined the Glasgow Highlanders, and, after a somewhat tedious time of training, he proceeded to France a year ago. He came safely through the first stages of the Big Push, but was killed in action on 1st November, 1916, during a successful attack on the German lines. Lance-Corporal Burnie was a man of strong and attractive personality, and will be long mourned by all who knew him. He was twenty-eight years of age.