Mechan, Arthur Clifford S/12193 ( - 1915)

Lance Corporal, 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders

Buried at Loos Memorial

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

Lance-Corporal Arthur Clifford Mechan was the only son of the late Dr. Mechan and Mrs. Mechan, 12 Victoria Crescent, Dowanhill. At School he was a good sport in the best sense of the term. Though not bookish, he always made a good appearance in the class room and took a creditable place in his examinations. He was straightforward and reliable, and whatever he attempted was seen to be done to the
best of his ability. He was keen on all forms of sport, and excelled at the long jump, for which as a schoolboy he held the record, 19 feet.

He had just completed his apprenticeship as an engineer when the call to arms sounded. Clifford had a high sense of duty, and the writer was not surprised when in the first days of the war he was stopped in the street by Clifford and three other former pupils and told they had enlisted as privates in Lochiel's Camerons. Two of the four never returned.

At Loos Lochiel's Camerons covered themselves with glory, but at a heavy price. Lance-Corporal Mechan was posted missing, and the most diligent inquiries failed to learn any more of him than that he had been wounded and left in a dug-out. When his comrades returned the dug-out had disappeared.

He was a loyal friend and staunch comrade, and his death is mourned by a wide circle of friends. The sincere sympathy of the whole School goes out to his widowed mother.