Captain Cyril Murgatroyd Longbotham , 2nd Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, was born in July 1887, and came to Loretto in 1900, leaving in 1903. He joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, West Riding Regiment, passed the Army Exam in 1908, and was gazetted to the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment. Captain Longbotham served with his Battalion ( a unit of the Meerut Division, 1st Indian Expeditionary Force), in France and in Mesopotamia. He died at Montana, Switzerland, from illness contracted on active service on January 12th 1920.

2ND LIEUTENANT JAMES FRANCIS RONALDSON LYELL, The Royal Scots, was born in March 1894, and was at Loretto from 1909 to 1911. XV. He joined a , ` Service' , Battalion of the Royal Scots, went with them to France, and became their Intelligence Officer . On November 24, 1917, his Battalion came out of trenches and went into billets. Lieut. Lyell, who lived at Battalion Headquarters, was by himself in the billet when an explosion was heard-probably the " delayed " explosion of a " dud " shell which had lodged in the wall or below the floor (as often happened)-and Lieut. Lyell was found there, killed by splinters of a shell. This occurred on November 25,1917.

Captain Lynedoch Archibald Mackenzie , East Lancashire Royal Engineers (Territorial), was born in November 1884, and was at Loretto 1897-1903. He went to Edinburgh University where he gained a B.Sc. and an A.M.I.C. Eng. He played for five years in the Scottish International Hockey XI, and was for some time a member of the "Queens` Edinburghs", (4/5 Royal Scots). In 1912 he joined the 1st Field Company East Lancashire Royal Engineers, which sailed for Egypt with the East Lancashire Territorial Division in 1914, and landed in Gallipoli in May 1915. Captain Mackenzie was twice wounded there, and died of his wounds on a hospital ship on the 19th October 1915.