Royal Army Medical Corps. He is remembered with honour on the Scottish National War Memorial, Larchfield School memorial, the Glasgow University Roll of Honour and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 3 Line 1.
The family home was at Auchengower, Helensburgh and Cove, Loch Long. The son of John and Isabella McFarlane-Colville King. Siblings: Douglas had two brothers, John was in a reserved occupation and David served with the Rhodesian Regiment and died in Rhodesia in 1918.