ARCHIBOLD HUGH MALCOLM

RANK: 2nd Lieutenant.

REGIMENT: 1st Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers.

BORN: Leeds.

ENLISTED:

GAVE HIS LIFE: 16/05/1917.

AGED: 23.

CEMETERY: Arras Memorial France..

PANEL: Bay 6.

LEEDS MODERN: 1904-1909.

Archibald was the only son of James Born Scotland in 1872, and Mary Ann Gallagher Born Leeds in 1871, who had married in 1893 at Leeds.

Archibald Left Leeds Modern and worked with his father at the Royal Liver Insurance Company in Leeds.

He had joined the Scots Guards early in the war, and trained at Caterham the Guards depot, and obtained a First Class certificate, this entitled Archibald to apply for a commision.

After training he was posted to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, and went to France in 1916.

Archibold gave his life leading his men on the 16th of May 1917 and lies where he fell to this day, he is remembered on the Arras Memorial to the missing.

His Commanding Officer wrote:

"He was a splendid type of the best class of young officer, clean and straight in life and limb, an example to all young men in high character and devotion to duty".