The Reverend Alexander Rowatt Maxwell, [M.B.E.], was born at Kilsyth in 1884 and educated at Paton College, Nottingham prior to taking Holy Orders. Initially employed with the Y.M.C.A. following the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was selected for service in the A.C.D. as a Chaplain 4th Class and served in France from 1916-18. Having himself lost an arm as a result of an accident whilst a youngster, Maxwell lobbied the authorities to find him a job working with limbless servicemen, a request that was eventually successful with his appointment to a number of Military Hospitals back in London in the Summer of 1918 - red-tape, however, dictated that he had to relinquish his A.C.D. rank in favour of a Ministry of Pensions appointment. Maxwell was latterly an 'Instructor in the use of artificial arms' at the limb-fitting unit at Charterhouse Military Hospital, London. Between the Wars he was a clergyman in the London area and returned to the Ministry of Pensions between 1942-50. He died at Kilsyth in 1954.