ALEXANDER GORDON VEITCH, M.A., Lieutenant in the 2/1st Battery of the Leicestershire R.H.A was the son of the Rev. R. Veitch, of Leicester.  He was educated at the Wyggeston School, Leicester, and at Queen’s College, Cambridge, of which College he was a scholar.  At the University he sat for both the Mathematical and Nature Science Triposes with exceptional success.  After spending two or three years as a Mathematical lecturer at Bristol University, he came to Wolverhampton Grammar School as Senior Mathematical Master in January 1914, and remained with us till March 1915, when the war claimed his services.  His battery was engaged throughout last winter on the Somme, and was moved to the Vimy Ridge when the attack developed there in the spring of this year.  He met his end while filling the dangerous position of forward observation officer in an artillery action at Gavrelle, south-east of the Ridge.  His Captain wrote of him that he was absolutely fearless and that his loss to the battery was irreparable, so profound was his knowledge of gunnery.