How the Late Capt, Shaw Met His End: An Epic of Beaumont Hamel Friends of Alexander Mackintosh Shaw, late of Peking and Tientsin, and Captain in the Ist King's Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in the disastrous attack on Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916, will be interested to know that detail of his death have at last been received from surviving officers of hhis battalion, which is now station ed in Egypt.
Capt. Lewis, who was formerly a subaltern in Capt. Shaw's company, /writes:—"Shaw's company was in the leading wave. At zero hour the troops went forward and the Germans, being aware of the exact moment of the attack, came up from their dug-outs as soon as our men left the trenches and literally mowed them down with machine guns, hundreds never getting further than our own wire, T was not there myself, but I heard afterwards that Shaw was seen walking in front of his company just though he was on a drill Parade. He must have gone a considerable distance before being hit—the distance between our trenches and the Germans' was 500 yards—for night after night search and burying parties were sent cout, and I never heard of Shaw's body being found. He must have gone a good distance because we dug a Tine at least 100 yards forward from where the attack took place, and yet he was not found, Shaw was a brave man and it quires little imagination to see him going forward fearlessly with al most certain death staring him in the face. On that day the ba talion lost 11 officers killed and 10 wounded out of 28 who went forward, 170 rank and file killed and double that number wounded—530° out of 600,"
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