Major Angus Gardiner Innes Fleming

Major Fleming, 6th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, was born on 2nd January 1906, and at Loretto from September 1915 to July 1920. After serving with the B.E.F. in France, he was evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940. He subsequently took part in the Tunisian campaign from March 1943 till his death on 5th May of that year. On 4th May, while commanding a detachment of three rifle companies, he was severely wounded in the head and died in hospital next day without recovering conciousness.

"He had a gift of radiating cheerfulness and good-comradeship, and there was no difficulty which he would not have faced and overcome."

Second Lieutenant James William Alexander Glen Forsyth

Second Lieutenant Forsyth, 2nd Battalion, The Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders, was born on 30th April 1910, and at Loretto from October 1919 to July 1927. At the beginning of the war he entered the Army and was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders. In 1941 he served in the North African campaign, and was wounded in October of that year. On 4th December he was killed in action near El Gobi.

Staff Captain Alexander Gibson

Staff Captain Gibson, 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was born on 23rd March 1914, and at Loretto from May 1928 to April 1933. He was a House Prefect, in the VI Form, A Prizeman, Editor of the Lorettonian , in the Shooting VIII (Captain), and Boxing, Fencing (Captain) and Swimming Teams, and C.Q.M.S. in the O.T.C. He went from School to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours in History and obtained a Half-Blue for the Pole-Vault. He also won the Scottish Championship Pole-Vault. At the beginning of the war he joined the 1st Cameronians, was sent to Burma, and reached the rank of Staff Captain. In the summer of 1942 he contracted an illness brought on by hardships suffered during the retreat from Burma, and died after an operation in the Welsh Mission Hospital at Shillong, Assam, on 24th July.