Lieutenant Henry Holms-Kerr Dunlop , The Royal Army Service Corps., was born in November 1886, and was at Loretto 1899-1904. He was a gifted musician, and also a good athlete. In 1916 Lieutenant Dunlop was given a commission in The Royal Army Service Corps, and joined the British Expeditionary Force in Italy, where he served until he was taken ill with influenza whilst on service. This, unfortunately, persisted until it developed into pneumonia, which proved fatal, and Lieutenant Dunlop died in a military hospital on February 13th 1919.


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LIEUTENANT JAMES DUNSMUIR, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, a native of British Columbia, was born in January 1894, and was at Loretto from 1905 to 1911. He was a clever light-weight boxer. Lieut. Dunsmuir held a commission in the Canadian Mounted Rifles, and in May 1915 he embarked for England in the Cunard Liner Lusitania, en route for the theatre of war. The Lusitania was torpedoed on May 7, 1915, by a German submarine not far from the coast of Ireland, and Lieut. Dunsmuir was among the very many who were drowned.


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2ND LIEUTENANT JAMES INGLEBY FARMER, 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, was born in January 1895, and was at Loretto from 1909 to 1918. He was in the XI and the Shooting VIII and was a Sergeant in the O.T.C. He was a winner of one of Mr. Paul's Cups. After leaving school he went up to Cambridge (Clare College). In 1914 he obtained a commission in the 60th Rifles (K.R.R.C.), and went to the 2nd Battalion in France. On May 9, 1915, his Battalion made an unsuccessful attack on a German trench, and on reassembling found Lieut. Farmer to be missing. When this trench was taken later, it was found that he had been killed just short of it and in the front of the attack.


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