SECOND LIEUTENANT GRAHAM BRYMNER THOMAS JARDINE
ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
18TH OCTOBER 1916 AGE 24
BURIED: WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
Graham Jardine was a scholar - as his parents have implied on his headstone inscription - the top scholar of Glasgow Academy in 1908, the holder of two prizes at Glasgow University and of a Lodge Exhibition at University College, Oxford. In July 1915 Jardine took a commission in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and in May 1916, attached to the 5th Battalion the Cameron Highlanders, went to France. He was killed five months later in an attack on the Butte de Warlencourt.
These are the bare bones of his life. However, in the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, a friend has provided us with a brief personal insight:
"I never met a man who had less fear of death. We talked of it more than once ... He always said that to give one's life for a cause one believed in was the most intense kind of self-realization that anyone could achieve."