ARNOTT, ROBERT LOUIS IRVING, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides (Lumsden’s) (F.F.), yst. s. of Brig.-Surg.-Lieut. Col. James Arnott, I.M.S. (retired), of Nyseby, Kirthbridge, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Isabella Louisa, dau. of Robert Taylor; b. Edinburgh, 10 March, 1899; educ. Edinburgh Academy, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and Military College, Wellington, India; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine, and was killed in action on 19 Sept. 1918, at Tabsor, near Jaffa, when attacking the enemy trenches in the victorious advance on that date. Buried behind the lines; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5