Lieutenant John Knox Walker Sloan

Lieutenant Sloan, 6th Battalion, The Grenadier Guards, was born on 13th February 1919, and at Loretto from September 1932 to April 1938. He was a Prefect, in the VI Form, Hockey Team and Fives Couples (Captain), and a Sergeant in the O.T.C. From School he went up to Clare College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in law. He entered the Army in October 1940, and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in January 1941. He later became Welfare Officer in his unit and carried out his duties in this post with great credit. At the beginning of 1943 the Grenadiers were engaged in the North African campaign, and in the middle of March took part in the attack on the Mareth Line, together with the Coldstreams and Scots Guards. The enemy were holding a large whale-backed ridge known as Horseshoe Hill, and here a fierce battle developed, in the course of which Lieutenant Sloan`s Battalion suffered very heavy losses. At dawn on 17th March he was the only surviving officer of No.3 Company, which was holding out under very heavy counter-attack. He himself was killed later in the battle, just as his Company was about to withdraw. He is buried with many of his comrades in the Guards` Cemetery near the Mareth Line.

"He will be sorely missed, not only by his friends but by the men for whom he did so much in welfare matters."

Lieutenant Harold Anthony Warrington Smith

Lieutenant Smith, 1st Battalion, The Scots Guards, was born on 19th October 1920, and at Loretto from September 1932 to July 1938. He was in the VI Form, Editor of the Lorettonian, and a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C. After a period of training and service at home, he went overseas and took part in the North African campaign of 1943 and the Italian campaign of 1944. He was twice wounded, in North Africa and at Anzio Beachhead. On 4th August 1944, while acting as Pioneer Officer during the battle of Florence and driving up to the front in his jeep, he was killed by the explosion of a mine.

"Anthony was very much liked and respected by everyone. He always made the best of everything and was always capable of coming out with one of his jokes, however unpleasant the situation."
"We loved him dearly. He was a great character and a very fine officer."

Flying Officer Peter Munro Sutherland

Flying Officer Sutherland, The Royal Air Force, (V.R.), was born on 17th August 1924, and at Loretto Junior School from September 1934 to December 1935. He was afterwards educated at Stowe. In 1942, after a short period of farming work, he joined the R.A.F.V.R. and underwent training in various parts of the British Isles and in Canada, where he spent nearly a year. In July 1944 he was stationed in Scotland, and at the end of that month his plane crashed and he received injuries from which he did not recover.