Monty was the oldest of two brothers. Descendants of the Earls of Dunfermline.
He was killed when Capt Grant was killed leading an attack on a german trench.
Monty took over and was hit in the head by a machine gun bullet as his company reached the trench.
He was again hit on the lip of the trench and the sergeant major was wounded in the hand trying to pull his body into the trench.
He died in the trench without regaining consciousness.
George V praised them for this feat of arms in recapturing a trench and holding it as a company when a couple of battalions had failed to do so already.
His younger brother Clement (my grandfather) survived the war after being wounded and gassed.
Interestingly his future wife's cousin William Arthur Macrae Bruce VC also part of the India corps was killed about three weeks later about 4 miles away. He was killed after being wounded a couple of times while directing the defence of a recaptured trench in similar circumstances.
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