2nd Lieutenant Owen Perrott Gwynne , 92nd Punjabis (Indian Army), was born in May 1891 and was at Loretto 1903-08. Having left school he went to work at Vickers Maxim and Co. as an engineering pupil, and in 1913, to Ceylon as Resident Engineer on the Dunsinane Tea Plantation. At the outbreak of war he joined the Ceylon Planters` Rifles, and went to Egypt. Lieutenant Gwynne was given a commission in the 92nd Punjabis, and fought at Ismailia. Later he went with the Relief Force, under General Sir F.J. Alymer, to the Persian Gulf and was killed in the battle of Sheikh Saad (on the Tigris) January 6-8th 1916.

2ND LIEUTENANT JAMES OSWALD HALDANE, The Rifle Brigade, was born in May 1879, and was at Loretto 1892 to 1898. Prefect. School Prizeman. Scholar of Jesus Coll., Camb., 1898 to 1903. In 1900, 1901 he served in the South African War with the Cambridge University Volunteer Company. In 1904 he was appointed to the Uganda Civil Service. At the outbreak of war he was District Commissioner of Toro, and resigned this post on obtaining a commission in the Rifle Brigade in February 1916. 2nd Lieut.Haldane joined the B.E.F. in France and was killed in action on August 8, 1916, his death being due to an act of chivalrous care for one of his men.

Major James Dundas Hamilton , 7th Battalion The Royal Scots, was born in January 1877 and was at Loretto 1888-93. A School Prizeman. He entered business as a Stockbroker and became a very keen Volunteer. He served for many years in the Volunteer and Territorial Forces, and was gazetted Major in 1910. His Battalion, after some months service at home during the early days of the War, were under orders for service overseas, and travelled south from Scotland by the troop train which was wrecked at Gretna on May 22nd 1915. Major Hamilton was among those killed.