LIEUTENANT- COLONEL JULIAN FALVEY BEYTS, The Durham Light Infantry, was born in September 1888, and came to Loretto in 1900, leaving in 1903. Colonel Beyts was killed in action on October 8, 1917. Unfortunately it has not been possible to obtain details of his services or of his death.

2nd Lieutenant George Henry Gordon Birrell, 9th (Dumbartonshire) Battalion (Territorial) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was born in February 1893 and was at Loretto 1903-08. He was gazetted to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on November 3rd 1914, and after training for a time in England, the Battalion left for France in February 1915. On May 10th 1915 they, as part of the 81st Infantry Brigade, had orders to take and hold a line of German trenches. This they succeeded in doing, after very heavy losses. Lieutenant Birrell was killed whilst leading his platoon towards the enemy`s position, through a terrific shell -fire, near Ypres. This was the 2nd Battle of Ypres.

LIEUTENANT CECIL WILLIAM BLAIN, Royal Air Force, was born in January 1896, and at Loretto 1910 to 1913. He was a Corporal in the O.T.C. After leaving school he took up farming in South Africa, but returned to England when war broke out and joined the Air Force. He went out to France, but soon after his arrival he was compelled to descend in the German lines near Cambrai owing to engine trouble during a flight, and became a prisoner of war. At his third attempt he escaped, returned to England, and was awarded the Air Force Cross. Lieut. Blain was then posted to the Aero Experimental Station at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and was accidentally killed whilst flying there on January 22, 1919.