Robert-Tissot, Emile Lucien 202440 (1898 - 1918)

Private, 7th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Buried at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

Emile L. Robert-Tissot was the younger and only surviving son of the late L. E. Robert-Tissot, M.A.(Oxon), for many years the distinguished Lecturer in French at the Athenaeum, Glasgow, and of Mrs. Robert-Tissot, 7 Rupert Street. At School Emile was not over-studious, nor was he keen on games, but both as boy and man he had a love for things pure and beautiful and of good report. He was brought up in the sunshine of a cultured home, and when his father died he and his brother Jean centred all their love and devotion on their mother. " East or west," to them home was ever best.

On leaving School Emile entered a bank, where his integrity, fidelity, and zeal received full recognition. When he was of military age he followed his brother Jean into the A. & S.H. He proceeded to France in the autumn of 1917, where he proved himself a brave, reliable, cheery soldier. His regiment played a great part in the Cambrai retreat, and throughout all the hardships and privations it entailed Emile
"carried on" in his old tranquil, uncomplaining fashion.

In March, 1918, he was home on leave, and everyone in School was delighted to see what a fine, manly, stalwart fellow he had grown. He returned to France as the great push was beginning, but was detained at the base for some time, and so missed that experience. He wrote home to say that he was joining up his division, the famous 51st, which had been ordered north for a rest. There, however, the tempest of battle broke on them again with renewed fury, and the gallant Emile fell mortally wounded on the 12th April.

His company commander writes, "His comrades all speak highly of him, and he was both an efficient soldier and a gallant gentleman." The sincerest and tenderest sympathy of the School goes out to his widowed mother, who has given both her sons to the great cause.