Lieutenant Macintyre has close connections with Arran.
In August, exactly 100 years on from an act of valour which earned Lieutenant David Lowe Macintyre the Victoria Cross, a commemorative plaque was unveiled in his home village of Portnahaven, Islay.
However, as the anniversary of the end of the First World War approaches, it is worth remembering Lietentant Macintryre on Arran too, as he had many connections with the island. They started even before he was born when his father, Archibald Macintyre, came to teach in Shiskine School in 1879 and brought his sister Jessie as his housekeeper. She married a local, Coll Currie of Shedog.