McIntyre, Peter S/15082 (1893 - 1918)

Private, 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Buried at Vis-en-Artois Memorial

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

Private Peter McIntyre was the eldest son of the late Captain McIntyre and Mrs. McIntyre, 437 Great Western Road. At School he was a quiet, retiring youth, with strong artistic tastes. While at School he obtained a Bursary for Drawing, and continued his Art studies for several years in evening classes.

On leaving School he entered the office of Mr. John H. Stewart, factor, 116 St. Vincent Street. When war was declared he offered himself for enlistment, but was rejected because of his eyesight. In 1915 he was more successful, and was posted to the 15th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

In July, 1916, he was sent to France, and attached to the second battalion of the same regiment. He came safely through the heavy fighting of the next two years, but on the 24th September, 1918, when the end was already in sight, he was killed at Villars-Geshlin.

Private McIntyre's father, a master mariner, who kept to the sea in spite of the fact that his vessel was torpedoed more than once and he himself posted as lost, finally met his death by enemy action in the Straits of Messina in January, 1918. The heartfelt sympathy of the School goes out to Mrs. McIntyre and family in this double bereavement.