Second Lieutenant John Curror Mudie

Second Lieutenant Mudie, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C., was born on 18th August 1922, and at Loretto from September 1936 to July 1940. He was a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C. After completing his training he was sent overseas and served in North Africa. On 27th May 1942 the German Armour attacked in great force six miles north of Bir Hakim in Libya, and Mudie, while looking from the turret of his tank, was hit on the head and killed. It was his first engagement with the enemy.

Second Lieutenant Alexander Henry Muirden

Second Lieutenant Muirden, The Royal Engineers, was born on 22nd August 1919, and at Loretto from September 1932, to July 1937. He was a House Prefect, in the VI Form (Prizeman) and the XV, and a Corporal in the O.T.C. From School he went to Worcester College, Oxford, where he was the best student of his year in Colonial Forestry, and won the Cooper`s Hill War Memorial prize, awarded to a forestry student every third year. After being commissioned he was stationed first at Folkestone and afterwards in London, for bomb disposal, and on 21st October 1940 was killed at Greenwich in the course of duty, while dealing with a bomb during an air raid.

"He was very highly spoken of by those who knew him best."

Signalman Neil Charles Arnott Muirhead

Signalman Muirhead, The Royal Corps of Signals, was born on 21st October 1921, and at Loretto from September 1931 to July 1940. He was in the VI Form and the Athletics Team, and a Sergeant in the O.T.C. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals in March 1941, and was attached to the 138th Field Regiment, R.A., 78th Division. With the British First Army he took part in the landings in North Africa in November 1942, served through the Sicilian campaign, and landed in the Calabrian Peninsula with the reorganised Eighth Army. He was with them up to the time of the battles on the Sangro river, when he died of acute malignant malaria at a military hospital in Termoli, on 2nd December 1943.

"He was a well-loved comrade, taking his share cheerfully in the usual hardships of a soldier`s life. He did much to make his line party one which could always be relied upon to carry out a first-class job of work."