HEPBURN Malcolm Arnold

Malcolm Hepburn was born in 1892. He attended Malvern College in House 7 from September 1905 to 1910.

Bond of Sacrifice:
2nd Lieutenant Malcolm Arnold Hepburn, 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s), was born at Hampstead, London, on the 8th January, 1892, and was the son of the late Mr and Mrs Hepburn, of 13, Well Walk, Hampstead. His elder brother, Captain W. D. Hepburn, now Adjutant 5th Battalion Royal Scots (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), is also in the Seaforth Highlanders.
2nd Lieutenant Hepburn was educated at Heddon Court Preparatory School, Hampstead, whence he obtained a scholarship at Malvern College in 1905. Subsequently he obtained a Classical Exhibition at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he rowed in the College Lent boat in 1911; was in the College Tennis VI; and won his colours for Association football.
He joined the Reserve of Officers in the Spring of 1913, and did his special training with the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, to which he was afterwards gazetted, and with which he was serving in France when killed. He was shot while superintending sapping operations in trenches near Messines on the 30th November, 1914, and was buried in Ploegsteert Wood.

Malcolm Hepburn