INDENT Lieutenant James Laidlaw Huggan, born 1888 at Jedburgh, educated at Darlington Grammar School and Edinburgh University, was gazetted to the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1912; a Scottish International Rugby football player, he gained his Scottish cap in March, 1914; he proceeded to France and was killed in action on the River Aisne 16 September by a high explosive shell burst. '... Dr Huggan was extraordinarily gallant and two days before he was killed he was recommended for the Victoria Cross for organising and leading a party of volunteers to remove a number of wounded from a barn that had been set on fire by German shell fire. The work was carried out under very heavy shell fire and all the wounded were saved.' (The Lancet 24 October, 1914 refers) - The Coldstream Guards Regimental History Vol. I confirms 'Colonel Fielding had recommended him for the Victoria Cross'.
Captain George Oliver Maw, educated at Cambridge University and at St. Barts was killed in action 10 July, 1916 whilst attached to the 13th Bn. Rifle Brigade - he was killed whilst attending to wounded outside an enemy dug-out between Albert and Baupame