ALAN JAMES GARDENER, Private, Canadian Infantry, was born in January 1895, and was at Loretto from 1909 to 1911. He enlisted in Canada, in a Scottish Battalion, on August 6, 1914, came to England with the Ist Canadian Contingent, and spent the first autumn and winter of the war training on Salisbury Plain. He went to France on Good Friday 1915, and took part in the Second Battle of Ypres in April and May 1915. His Battalion then went south to the neighbourhood of La Bassee, and Alan Gardener was killed during the last phase of the Battle of Festubert, May 20, 1915.

Lieutenant-Commander Mungo Campbell Gibson , R.N.V.R., was born in May 1890, and was at Loretto 1904-06. When the Forth Division R.N.V.R. was formed in 1913 he was given the Command. In September 1914 he was promoted Lieutenant Commander in the Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, and with it served in the Antwerp Expedition. His Battalion went to Gallipoli in April 1915, and, during the first battle of Krithia, on May 1st 1915 was sent up to strengthen the French extreme right, and helped to repulse the Turkish attack. On the night of May 2nd the enemy attacked again and during the fight Lieutenant Commander Gibson was shot through the head and killed instantly.

LIEUTENANT ANDREW GRAHAM, 9th (Service) Battalion The Black Watch, was born in January 1889, and at Loretto from 1905 to 1909. He was in Canada in August 1914, but returned home to join the New Armies. Commissioned in the 8th (Service) Battalion The Black Watch he saw a lot of active service, including the Somme battle of 1916. Invalided home with trench fever, he returned to France early in 1917 and was posted to the 9th Battalion of his Regiment. On December 30, 1917, when he was commanding the 44th Trench Mortar Battery, he, with several others, was killed by a premature burst of one of his own shells.