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 2^nd Lieut Alastair John Greville Murray: "To the glory of God and in loving memory of Alastair John Greville Murray, 2^nd Lieut Cameron Highlanders, killed at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914." Alastair Murray was the son of Major Alastair Murray and Mary Murray of Polmaise Castle. He was the last of the Murrays of Polmaise, a prominent Stirling landowning family. He had newly been commissioned as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalionn, Cameron Highlanders, when he was killed, age 20. After the Battle of the Marne, the Germans retreated northwards and dug in on elevated ground immediately to the north of the river Aisne. This marked the end of the ‘war of movement’ and the beginning of trench warfare. The British and French crossed to the north bank of the Aisne, but found themselves at the foot of steep slopes surmounted by well-prepared German positions. Murray almost certainly fell in one of the many uphill assaults made on 14 September on the Chemin des Dames, a road of about 14 miles in length, running along a narrow ridge overlooking the Aisne.  The British Expeditionary Force then redeployed to northern France and Flanders, in order to shorten its supply lines. See entry in WWI Roll of Roll of Honour.