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Joseph M. Hendry (1937)
25th July 2007
Dr. Joseph McInnes Hendry (1928-37) who died on 25th July, 2007, at the age of 87, was in the athletics and fencing teams. He took his first degree at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he gained his half-blue in fencing, and completed his medical studies at the University of Glasgow. He joined the RAF and spent the last years of the War in Burma. He then worked in several Glasgow hospitals before becoming an Orthopaedic Consultant at the Royal Alexandra Infirmary in Pais...
Arthur G. Lee (1937)
31st May 2005
Arthur Guy Lee (1932-37) died on 31st July, 2005, at the age of 86. He was a prefect and in the hockey and cricket XIs. He went up to St John’s College, Cambridge with a Major Scholarship in Classics and was awarded a Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship and the Sir William Browne Medal following his First Class Honours in Tripos Part I. Before taking Part II he joined the Army and saw service as a captain in the KOYLI and the Royal Signals in Iceland (where he learnt the lang...
Angus Pattullo (1936)
30th January 2007
Angus Pattullo MC (1932-36) took a Diploma in Agriculture at the University of Edinburgh and farmed in Strathmore, Angus, until 1984. During the War he served with the Highland Division as a Royal Engineer in the Middle East, Sicily and NW Europe. He attained the rank of Major and was awarded the MC for his part in the battle of Wadi Akarit. Angus was a JP, member of the National Farmers’ Union, Trustee of the Scottish Crop Research Institute and served on the Home Grown C...
John R. Potts (1936)
11th February 2012
John Roger Potts (1932-36) died on 11th February, 2012, in his 93rd year. He served in the Royal Navy during the war in Iceland, Dakar, Singapore and Java and as the Lieutenant Secretary to the Commodore, Hong Kong in 1946 and after promotion to Lieutenant Commander as Secretary to the Flag Officer, Malayan Area, from 1953-56. He then served with N.A.T.O. from 1956-67. After retirement he worked for N.A.T.O. as Supply Liaison officer for the Early Warning Radar programme unti...
Peter Dallas-Smith (1937)
29th April 2003
Peter Dallas-Smith (1933-37) died peacefully in the Royal Surrey County Hospital on 29th April, 2003, following a stroke. He was in the hockey and fives teams. During the War he served as a Lieutenant-Commander R.N. at the River Plate and in the Atlantic and Mediterranean – he was Mentioned in Despatches and was invalided out in 1946. He later became Managing Director of The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and after his retirement wrote books for children. He was a Governor of L...
Thomas W. Dewar (1938)
2nd February 2011
Thomas Wright Dewar (1933-38) died on 2nd February, 2011. He was a prefect, Captain of the XI and in the Hockey XI. After a year at Cambridge he enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment and was commissioned into the 11th Bn, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to the 7th Black Watch. He served in Egypt was promoted to the rank of Captain before becoming PoW at Homs in 1943. After 3 escapes and being taken through Tunis, Italy, Austria, Silesia, Poland and Germany, he was rel...
Hew McCall Smith (1937)
7th February 2009
Hew McCall-Smith (1930-37) died on 7th February, 2009, in his 90th year. He was in the XV and the athletics team.  During the War he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in North Africa, Italy and Sicily: he was Mentioned in Despatches. He farmed initially near Crieff and visited the USA in 1956 on a Nuffield Agricultural Scholarship to study poultry.  He subsequently purchased a farm in Aberdeenshire and moved there in the 1960s. He was a local county councillor, se...
William L.A. McCreath (1937)
16th February 2007
William (Bill) Leonard Andrew McCreath (1933-37) died on 16th February, 2007, two days before his 88th birthday. At the age of 14, he lost his left leg following treatment for a tumour, but never allowed this misfortune to affect his life. On leaving Loretto he qualified as a solicitor with Dees & Thompson in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He served in the Royal Observer Corps – and was convinced that an aeroplane he sighted crossing the coastline near Berwick in 1941 was the one wh...
George D.L. Alpine (1938)
1st January 2010
George Douglas Loudon Alpine (1933-38) has died (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date) in Cyprus where he had lived for several years. He graduated M.A. from Cambridge (Gonville & Caius College) and served in the Intelligence Corps, Syria, Egypt, Germany. He worked for SEDEC in the Belgian Congo from 1948-53; the Iraq Mercantile Co. Ltd, Baghdad, from 1954-60; and became Sales Manage for United Engineering Co Ltd, and Eastern Scientific C...
Charles G.B. Fotheringham (1937)
8th June 2005
Major Charles Gordon Bryan Fotheringham (1933-37) died on 8th June, 2005, at the age of 85. He was a prefect, in the XV and in the athletics, swimming and boxing teams. Following RAMC Sandhurst (where he was awarded a Half Blue for athletics) Gordon was commissioned into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1939 transferring in 1943 to the 7th (LI) Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in which he served during the Normandy battles and the Ardennes winter campaign of 1944-5 befor...
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