Lorettonian Society

Lieutenant Colonel William Alan Kinnaird Stodart (1923-26) who is reported to have died (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date), was a prefect. He went on to the R.M.A Woolwich where he played for the XV before serving in the Royal Signals on the N.W. Frontier and was Mentioned in Despatches. He later served in India, Burma, the Western Desert and Iraq, being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1942. He then became C.O.R. of the Signals Tr...

David F. Calder (1924)

12th October 2001

David Francis Calder (1918-24) who died on 12th October, 2001, spent his working life farming in Northumberland and Berwickshire. He was a leading member of the Northumberland NFU, was on the Borough Council of Norham and Islandshire, and a very keen member of Berwick Bridge Club. He is survived by his OL sons Francis (1956), Peter (1959) and Trevor (1961).

John H. Robertson (1927)

1st October 1965

John Henry Robertson (1921-1927), better known as John Connell, died in London in 1965.

George R. Millar (1929)

15th January 2005

George Reid Millar DSO, MC, (1924-29) died on 15th January, 2005, at the age of 94, was a great war-time adventurer and one of the last survivors of the Special Operations Executive. He read architecture at St John’s College, Cambridge, but was working as a journalist in Paris when war broke out. He escaped from France in the chaos of 1940 and enlisted in the Rifle Brigade. By the end of 1941 he had been given command of a scout platoon in the Western Desert but was captur...

Terence V.H. Coffey (1929)

1st January 2006

Terence Victor Hamilton Coffey MBE (1919-29) (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date)graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and became an FCA and worked as Chief Accountant of Grosvenor Estates. During the War he served as a Major in the Royal Engineers: he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the MBE.

Thomas M. Russell (1929)

7th January 2006

Thomas Moir Russell JP (1924-29) died on 7th January 2005. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, where he also took up rowing. He wasn’t a “Blue”, but he made the Trial Eights, and was in the Clare boat which won “Head of the River”. Most people will remember the pride with which he wore his Leander Club regalia – especially the pink socks – whenever he could. His subject was Architecture and although neither ancient buildings nor contemporary design ever became pas...

Cecil F.S. Fraser (1927)

23rd December 1999

Cecil Frederick Stanton Fraser (1925-1927) who died on 23 December 1999 at the age of 89 was in the shooting team. He served as a Wing Commander in the RAF during World War II and was Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to Group Captain in 1949, he was Command Ordnance Officer, F.E.A.F., in Singapore and was later a member of the Ordnance Board from 1950-1952 and 1955-1965 when he retired. His retirement years were spent contentedly in West Sussex many of them in Coldwaltham wh...

Algernon B. Milligan (1930)

10th June 2013

Algernon Bruce Milligan (1925-30) died on 10th June, 2013 at the age of 102 years. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., D.C.H. from the University of Edinburgh in 1935, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps early in 1939, serving as a Captain in Egypt, Italy and N.W. Europe. After being demobbed in 1945 he accepted a job as a GP in a practice in Worcester where he remained for over 30 years. Dr Milligan had his Diploma of Child Health and many diverse appointments: Factory Medical Off...

David Geddes (1929)

10th March 2002

David Geddes (1925 -29), who died on 10th March, 2002, was Editor of The Lorettonian. He graduated from the universities of Paris and Munich and worked as an oil broker, setting up his own company David Geddes & Son Ltd., of which he was Chairman and Managing Director. During the war he worked in Economic Warfare in Norway and Portugal, and was British Economic Advisor in Scandinavia.

William S. Gilbert (1930)

23rd June 2010

William Stephen Gilbert (1925-30) died on 23rd June, 2010, at the age of 97. After leaving school he worked in Belfast for the Northern Whig as a junior reporter. By the mid-1930s he had joined the family firm, Samuel McCausland Ltd., tea and seed merchants, where his father was chairman and managing director (a position subsequently occupied by himself). In the spring of 1939 he became conscious of the need to make a stand against Hitler and joined the Supplementary Reser...

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