St. Paul's scholarship, and in October 1912, says John Murray in a prefatory memoir to War the Liberator, went to Christ Church as a classical scholar. He made good there more by his natural capacity than by routine study, developed a passion for poetry and for the arts and traditions of his native Highlands. The war ended his two happy years at Oxford, and before the close of 1914 he was a subaltern of the 5th Seaforths. By the following July he was in the fighting line in France, and in May 1916 received the M.C. for his conduct of a daringly successful raid. Gassed and wounded, he was sent back to England in August, and whilst training cadets at Cambridge became engaged, and had schemes of marrying and settling down in New Zealand after the war. But he could not rest here in safety; he was troubled with yearnings to be back with the comrades who had fought beside him and who were carrying on now while he was not there. This feeling is in the poem written at Cambridge, 'From Home'; living at peace he could still hear the roar
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