2ND LIEUTENANT CHARLES WILFRID GUTHRIE, The Royal Scots, was born in January 1898, and was at Loretto from 1913 to 1916. House Prefect. Corporal, 0. T .C. Before leaving school he passed his Matriculation at Balliol College, Oxford, and was, on leaving, awarded a Craigielands Scholarship. He obtained a commission in a Battalion of the Royal Scots, and went to France in June 1917. On August I, 1917, his Company was surrounded by the enemy, and Lieut. Guthrie was the last officer left with it He was wounded three times before he was finally shot through the head and killed.

CAPTAIN ROBERT FORMAN GUTHRIE, lOth (Scottish) Battalion The King's Liverpool Regt., was born in August 1891, and was at Loretto 1905 to 1910. Head of School, Captain XV. and XI., and first Company Sergeant-Major of the School 0. T .C. After leaving school he went up to Cambridge (King's Coll.) and took his degree. After the outbreak of the war Capt. Guthrie obtained a commission in the Liverpool Scottish, and went out to France. On August 9, 1916, when the great British offensive from Guillemont to the Somme was in progress, he was killed, leading his men to the attack, by machine-gun fire, almost on the German wire.

Captain John Fitzgerald Gwynne, M.C. R.A.M.C. was born in August 1889 and was at Loretto 1901-06. He was a School Prizeman. He studied medicine at Sheffield University. Captain Gwynne obtained a commission in the R.A.M.C. and served in Flanders, winning the Military Cross. At dawn on July 9th 1915 he was told that a wounded man had been lying in an exposed, unsafe trench for three days, unattended. Though warned of the danger, he made his way to the spot and dressed the man`s wounds. As he straightened himself up after bending over him, a sniper shot him through the head and killed him on the spot.