2ND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HALL JOWETT, The King's Liverpool Regiment, was born in March 1894, and was at Loretto from 1908 to 1912. He served for nearly three years in the School 0. T .C. At the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted to a Battalion of the King's Liverpool Regt. Lieut. Jowett was very severely wounded in action, and he died from the effects of his wounds-in hospital-on June 28, 1916. His twin brother, Capt. J. S. Jowett, of the Manchester Regiment, also died of wounds in September 1918.


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2ND LIEUTENANT RICHARD HENRY KEMBER, M.M., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was born in April 1894, and was at Loretto from 1909 to 1912. Corporal, O.T.C. In New Zealand, in August 1914, he enlisted as a private and came to the Mediterranean early in 1915 with the N.Z.E.F. During the campaign in Gallipoli he was wounded, and his bravery won him the Military Medal. On recovering from his wound he was given a commission, and after the evacuation of Gallipoli he went with the Anzacs to the Western front, where he was killed in action on September 22, 1916.


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WILLIAM YORKE KEYS-WELLS, Indian Army Cadet, was born in May 1898, and was at Loretto from 1912 to 1915. Corporal Signaller, 0. T .C. Although only sixteen years of age when war broke out, he determined to get a commission as soon as possible, and entered for the Army Entrance Examination (for an Indian Cadetship), which he passed in July 1915, when just over seventeen years old. William Keys-Wells sailed for India in September, and died on service at sea, September 25, 1915, the news of his death being received from Gibraltar .


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