Major Bruce Campbell Guthrie

Major Guthrie, M.C., 5th Battalion, The Black Watch, was born on 3rd January 1915, and at Loretto from September 1928 to July 1932. He was in the XI, the Hockey Team and the Fives Couples, and a Lance-Corporal (Big Drummer) in the O.T.C. After being commissioned into the Black Watch, he went to North Africa with the 51st (Highland) Division in the spring of 1943, quickly reached the rank of Major, and was mentioned in Despatches. He was badly wounded at the battle of Mareth on 25th March 1943, and died of his wounds on 1st April. Major Guthrie was posthumously awarded the M.C. he is buried in the Medenine British Cemetery, Tunisia.

"He did a grand job and died a magnificent man."

Lieutenant Henry Digory Hartnoll

Lieutenant Hartnoll, D.S.C., The Royal Marines, was born on 6th May, 1921, and at Loretto from May 1935 to December 1938. He was in the VI Form, a Prizeman, in the Athletics Team and Shooting VIII, and a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C. He joined the Royal Marines in January 1939, was commissioned as Probationary 2nd Lieutenant in May, and obtained a first-class certificate in naval gunnery in October. On being promoted Lieutenant he served in H.M.S. Coventry and Valiant, and as AA Gunnery Control Officer in H.M.S. Neptune. He took part in many naval operations from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean - Stavanger, Malta convoys, Benghazi, Tobruk, Greece, Crete, the Syrian coast and the Red Sea, and on 3rd December 1941 was awarded the D.S.C. "For his bravery and initiative, without thought for himself, when H.M.S. Coventry was in action with the enemy. An incendiary machine-gun bullet hit the after ready-use ammunition locker, setting one of the charges on fire. Lieutenant Hartnoll jumped down from his action station on No. 8 gun deck, lifted the loaded, hot cylinders, and threw them overboard." On the 19th of the same month he was reported missing when H.M.S. Neptune was mined off the Libyan Coast.

Flight Lieutenant Robert Edwards Harvey

Flight Lieutenant Harvey, The Royal Air Force (V.R.), was born on 19th June 1913 and at Loretto from September 1927 to March 1932. He was a Prefect, in the VI Form and XV, and a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C. After leaving School he played Rugby for the Edinburgh Academicals, Fettesian-Lorettonians and Wayfarers, and in the Inter-City (Edinburgh v. Glasgow) match. In September 1939 he enlisted in the Royal Scots and soon afterwards in 1940 obtained a commission in the King`s Own Scottish Borderers. In 1941 he transferred to the R.A.F. and reached the rank of Flight-Lieutenant in 1943. As a Navigator and Bomb-aimer he took part in many raids on Germany and, when stationed in North Africa, on Sicily and Italy. He was mentioned in Despatches in January 1944. Later he served as an Instructor at an aerodrome in Shropshire, and on 12th August 1944, while on a cross-country flight, was killed, together with all his crew, in an accident at Linton-on-Ouse, near York. He is buried in the R.A.F. cemetery at Harrogate.

"For a man of his age to go into the Air Force as he did was a magnificent effort."