LIEUTENANT NORMAN C. DAWSON, 13th (Service) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, was born in March 1893, and was at Loretto 1908 to 1909. He obtained a commission in the 13th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment after war broke out. This Battalion was in the Arras-Bapaume line early in 1918, when the great German spring offensive of 1918 broke out, with Amiens as its immediate objective. The British line was slowly forced back, and during the severe fighting that ensued Lieut. Dawson was killed on March 28, 1918, near Croisilles, south of Arras, and half-way between that town and Bapaume.

LIEUTENANT FRANCIS ERSKINE DEMPSTER, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, was born in December 1889, and was at Loretto from 1899 to 1908. He was a Prefect, was for three years a member of the XV and the XI. He played Fives and was in the Hockey XI. Lieut. Dempster, after the outbreak of war, obtained a commission in the Cameron Highlanders and proceeded to France. During the Battle of the Somme he was reported "missing" after the action of July 22, 1916, and in a later casualty list was shown as "killed on that date".

Captain George Henry Dempster , 35th Sikhs Indian Army, was born in December 1883 and was at Loretto 1896-1902. He was in the XV and XI. After leaving School he joined the Indian Staff Corps and was gazetted to the 35th Sikh Regiment. Captain Dempster went to France in December 1914 and was attached to the 9th Bhopal Infantry, Lahore Division, Indian Expeditionary Force. He was killed in the fight at Festabert on the 20th December 1914. At first he was officially reported "missing", but later his death was announced.