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26 ROLL OF HONOUR
2nd Lieutenant Charles Wilfrid Guthrie, The Royal
Scots, was born in January 1898, and was at Loretto
from 1913 to 1916. House Prefect. Corporal, O.T.C.
Before leaving school he passed his Matriculation at
Balliol College, Oxford, and was, on leaving, awarded
a Craigielands Scholarship. He obtained a commis-
sion in a Battalion of the Royal Scots, and went to
France in June 1917. On August 1, 1917, his Com-
pany was surrounded by the enemy, and Lieut.
Guthrie was the last officer left with it He was
wounded three times before he was finally shot through
the head and killed.
Captain Robert Forman Guthrie, 10th (Scottish) Battn.
The King's Liverpool Regt., was born in August
1891, and was at Loretto 1905 to 1910. Head of
School, Captain XV. and XL, and first Company-
Sergeant-Major of the School O.T.C. After leaving
school he went up to Cambridge (King's Coll.) and
took his degree.
After the outbreak of the war Capt. Guthrie
obtained a commission in the Liverpool Scottish, and
went out to France. On August 9, 1916, when the
great British offensive from Guillemont to the Somme
was in progress, he was killed, leading his men to the
attack, by machine-gun fire, almost on the German
wire.