JOHN MACKENZIE BOW, Private, Canadian Infantry, was born in May 1863, and was at Loretto from 1875 to 1880. He then went to Edinburgh University, where he took his M.A. degree. In 1886 he won the Scottish one-mile bicycle championship, and was, for a time, President of the Scottish Amateur Athletic Association. 
Although upwards of fifty years of age, John Bow joined the Canadian Infantry as a private. He was killed in action in France in October 1917.

Captain George Vallance McKinlay Boyd , 17th (Service) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, was born in May 1880 and was at Loretto 1896-98. After leaving School he began a business career, and was a member of the firm of Boyd and Dunn, Stockbrokers, Glasgow. A very fine golfer, he won the South of Ireland Championships in 1912, and was a familiar figure at the Amateur Championship meetings. When his Battalion was raised during the war, Captain Boyd was one of the first to join it, and was given a commission. He was promoted Captain in 1915 and was killed on the Somme leading a charge at the head of his company. July 1st 1916.

Major Harold Brown, D.S.O. M.C. 4th Battalion The Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment), was born in January 1879, and was at Loretto 1895-99. He was a Prefect. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated with a B.A. Cantab. He joined the 4th (Territorial) Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, in July 1914, and served with them in France and Flanders. He was twice wounded on the Somme in 1916, and a third time at Arras in 1917. Awarded the D.S.O. in 1916, he also won the Military Cross, was given the Croix de Guerre, and was gazetted Brevet Major in the New Year Honours 1918. Major Brown was killed in action when in command of his Battalion on the 23rd March 1918.