Biography:
CAPTAIN I. D. DEWAR School House
JTH (SERVICE) BATTALION THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON
HIGHLANDERS
IAN DALRYMPLE DEWAR was the son of the Hon. Lord Dewar, one of
the Senators of the College of Justice, Edinburgh, and of Lady Dewar, of
Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh.
He entered the School in 1907 and had his Cap in 1909. He won the
Public Schools' Boxing Competition for light-weights in 1911. In October
of that year he went up to New College, Oxford. He became President of
the Oxford University Boxing Association in 1913, and represented his
University against Cambridge in 1912 and 1913.
He volunteered for service when War broke out, and received a
Commission in the Cameron Highlanders. He went to the Front in May,
1915, and was wounded slightly in August, and again, severely, at Loos,
in September. He was promoted Captain and returned to the Front as
Adjutant in March, 1916. A few days later, while inspecting barbed wire
in front of a listening post, he was killed instantaneously by machine-gun
fire on the night of March i6th, 1916. Age 22.
The uncle of one of his men wrote to the following effect :—
" He saved my nephew's life last summer in the trenches in France.
It was one of many daring, unselfish actions on his part for his men, who
simply marvelled at his courage, just as they loved him for his unstinted
kindness. My nephew, with a party of the Camerons, was fixing up wire
entanglements outside the trenches at midnight. He was wounded by a
trench mortar, and lay for some hours, until your son carried him to the
rampart, himself being wounded in the act."