MEETS DEATH ON BATTLEFIELD

Captain J. Herrick McGregor, Well-Known Victorian, Is Killed in Action - Was Prominent in City's Life

The Late Captain Herrick McGregor

The news received through official sources last night to the effect that Captain. J. Herrick McGregor had been killed in action will prove a severe shock to his scores of friends in this city. It is with general sorrow that a report he had been wounded was received, but his many friends were hoping that he had only been slightly wounded.

For the past twenty-five years Captain McGregor has been one of the best know of Victorians. His long residence in the city and his active participation in its social and business life had secured for him a very wide circle of friends. Throughout the Province, too, he was well known, as in past years he visited many sections of British Columbia in his business of a Provincial land surveyor. In local sport he formerly took a prominent part, and was always deeply interested in all amateur pastimes. With his fellow officers of the 59th Gordon Highlanders, and also with the men under his command, he was esteemed for his many sterling qualities.

The late Captain McGregor was born at Cote des Neiges, a suburb of Montreal, where he adopted land surveying as a profession. Twenty-five years ago he came West to Victoria. Of late years he had been a member of the firm Messrs. Gore & McGregor, land surveyors. Captain McGregor was possessed of exceptional merit as a writer, and his poems, a book of which he published, gained him considerable reputation as an author. He took an active part in the municipal affairs of Oak Bay, and for several years served on the Municipal Council. He also took a deep interest in the work of the local branch of the Navy League.

BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1, Volume 4, FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS, Diary and enclosures, 1915.