Captain Stanley Gemmell Millar , 8th (Service) Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), was born in February 1887 and was at Loretto 1899-1906. He was a Prefect and played in the XV and in the XI. After leaving school he played in the West of Scotland cricket XI, and was a member of the Scottish International Hockey Team. At the outbreak of war he enlisted in a territorial unit and served in the Battalion Machine Gun Section. He was, afterwards, given a commission in The Loyal Regiment, and attained the rank of Captain. Captain Millar was killed in action on July 2nd 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.


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STEWART WRIGHT MILLAR, Cadet, Royal Flying Corps, was born in March 1899, and was at Loretto from 1913 to 1917. Prefect. xv. Sergeant Signaller, 0. T .C. Editor of the Lorettonian. In April 1917 , a few days after he had left Loretto, Stewart Millar was accepted for the Royal Flying Corps, and began his training at once at the Flying School at Farnborough, Hants, as a Cadet. Whilst at Farnborough he contracted pneumonia, and died in the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, on May 24, 1917.


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LIEUTENANT GEORGE MITCHELL, 3rd Reserve (att. 1st} Battalion The Black Watch, was born in June 1889, and at Loretto from 1903 to 1906. He held the Heavyweight Wrestling and Boxing Championships of the English Northern Counties, and fought Carpentier in Paris, and although severely punished, put up a better fight against him than any other British representative had done. Enlisting in a Public Schools Battalion (Middlesex Regt.} at the outbreak of war, he was, on February 10, 1915, given a commission in the Black Watch. Lieut. Mitchell joined the 1st Battalion in France, and acted as Battalion Bombing Officer and Brigade Trench Mortar Officer. He was killed near Bethune on July 22, 1916.


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