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Lindley Carstairs (1933)
10th July 2003
Lindley Carstairs (1929-33) died on 10th July, 2003. He served during the War as a Lieutenant in the L.AS.A. Regt., Royal Artillery, and with the Royal Scots in North Africa and Italy. He qualified as a C.A. and became a Partner of Provan & Strong in Glasgow.
Andrew L.P. Carter (1934)
9th January 2008
Andrew Lawrence Paul Carter (1929-34) died on 9th January, 2008, in Cambridge at the age of 92. He read Mechanical Sciences at King’s College, Cambridge and qualified later as a Chartered Engineer and M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E. In 1939 he joined the Royal Navy as a Sub-Lieutenant RNVR and served in the Battle Cruiser HMS Hood leaving her 2 months before she was sunk by the Bismark. Most of his service was on HMS Centurion (which changed her identity several times by the addit...
Oliver C. Colt (1934)
9th April 2007
Dr Oliver Charles Colt (1929-34) died on 9th April, 2007, in St Peter Port, Guernsey. He graduated MB, ChB from the University of Edinburgh. During the War he served as a Captain in the RAMC in Burma and was Mentioned in Despatches and later served as a Major in the Rhodesian SAS Squadron. Subsequently he worked as a GP in Rhodesia before retiring to the Channel Islands. He is survived by his wife, son and three daughters and his OL brother, Robert (1936).
Robert Y. McLean (1940)
4th June 2013
Robert Younger McLean (1935-40), who has died, was Editor of The Lorettonian and in the athletics team. He read Mechanical Sciences at St John’s College, Cambridge, graduating M.A. and later became a M.I.E.E. During the war he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery with the Highland Division in Sicily, France and Germany and from 1949-56 served as a Captain R.A. (T.A.) with 357 Medium Regt. As a Chartered Electrical Engineer, he worked as Contracts Manager with Peebles...
David J. Symington (1939)
4th July 2004
David John Symington (1932-39) died on 4th July, 2004. He was Head Nipper and a member of the Hockey XI and Fives team. During the War he joined the Royal Artillery before transferring to the Gordon Highlanders where he served as a Captain in Africa, Palestine, Sicily, Italy and Greece. He was a director of John Perring Ltd the furniture retailers in Kingston-on-Thames where he worked for 38 years, and of the London Bedding Centre. On retirement in 1983, he spent more time...
Ian N.D. Wallace (1939)
2nd August 2006
Ian Norman Duncan Wallace QC (1931-39) who died on 2nd August, 2006, was Captain of Fencing. During the war he served as an OS in the South Atlantic and Western Mediterranean and as a Lieutenant RNVR in Madagascar, Mediterranean, Sicily, Salerno and the Aegean. After the war, he read Law at Oriel College, Oxford, joined Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1948, becoming a QC in 1973. He was recognised as one of the leading international lawyers in the field of build...
Ian Ross Russell (1948)
28th February 2006
Dr Ian Ross Russell (1939-48) died from cancer on 28 February 2006 at his home in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, after a short illness endured with characteristic courage and cheerfulness. From Loretto he went up to Trinity Hall Cambridge and continued his medical training at St Thomas' Hospital London, graduating MB, BChir in 1954. His national service as a captain in the RAMC took him to Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean at the time of the testing of the atomic bomb...
Alan L. Mackinnon (1948)
11th February 2010
Alan Leslie Mackinnon (1943-48), who died on 11 February 2010, was in the XV and the Fives team. He trained as a Chartered Accountant with Robert Clement in Glasgow and was a Partner with Ernst & Whinney (formerly Barton Mayhew & Co) in Lisbon from 1962-1990. He is survived by his 3 daughters and 2 granddaughters who live in Estoril, Portugal and his brother Kenneth (1939-45).
Harry P. Neilson (1948)
20th January 2005
Harry Philip Neilson (1944-48) who died on 20th January, 2005, was in the fives team. He joined the Regular Army, serving in the Royal Artillery until 1961, retiring in the rank of Captain. He then worked for Robinson, Dunn & Co. Ltd, the Glasgow timber merchants. He is survived by his wife, Elspeth, and three children, Carolyn, Alison and Andrew, and by his OL brother Hugh (1948).
Colin C. Alexander (1948)
3rd July 2011
Colin Campbell Alexander (1941-48) died on 3rd July, 2011, at the age of 81 years. He read engineering at the Royal College of Science & Technology in Glasgow, later becoming a M.I.Mech.E. After working at the Fairfield Shipyard on the Clyde he moved in 1965 to Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd. in Barrow-in-Furness where he was Chief Estimator working onType42 Frigates and Nuclear Submarines. He was heavily involved in the Engineering Society in Barrow, was a keen ch...
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