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ROLL OF HONOUR 39
Captain Cyril Murgatroyd Longbotham, 2nd Battn.
The Leicestershire Regiment, was born July 1887, and
came to Loretto in 1900, leaving in 1903. He joined
the 3rd (Militia) Battn. West Riding Regt., passed
the Army Examination in 1908, and was gazetted to
the 2nd Leicestershires.
Capt. Longbotham served with his Battalion — a
unit of the Meerut Division, 1st Indian Expeditionary
Force — in France and in Mesopotamia, and died at
Montana, Switzerland, from illness contracted on
active service, on January 12, 1920.
2nd Lieutenant James Francis Ronaldson Lyell, The
Royal Scots, was born in March 1894, and was at
Loretto from 1909 to 1911. XV. He joined a
' Service " Battalion of the Royal Scots, went with
them to France, and became their Intelligence Officer.
On November 24, 1917, his Battalion came out of
trenches and went into billets. Lieut. Lyell, who
lived at Battalion Headquarters, was by himself in
the billet when an explosion was heard — probably the
" delayed " explosion of a " dud " shell which had
lodged in the wall or below the floor (as often
happened) — and Lieut. Lyell was found there, killed
by splinters of a shell. This occurred on November
25, 1917.
Captain Cyril Murgatroyd Longbotham, 2nd Battn.
The Leicestershire Regiment, was born July 1887, and
came to Loretto in 1900, leaving in 1903. He joined
the 3rd (Militia) Battn. West Riding Regt., passed
the Army Examination in 1908, and was gazetted to
the 2nd Leicestershires.
Capt. Longbotham served with his Battalion — a
unit of the Meerut Division, 1st Indian Expeditionary
Force — in France and in Mesopotamia, and died at
Montana, Switzerland, from illness contracted on
active service, on January 12, 1920.
2nd Lieutenant James Francis Ronaldson Lyell, The
Royal Scots, was born in March 1894, and was at
Loretto from 1909 to 1911. XV. He joined a
' Service " Battalion of the Royal Scots, went with
them to France, and became their Intelligence Officer.
On November 24, 1917, his Battalion came out of
trenches and went into billets. Lieut. Lyell, who
lived at Battalion Headquarters, was by himself in
the billet when an explosion was heard — probably the
" delayed " explosion of a " dud " shell which had
lodged in the wall or below the floor (as often
happened) — and Lieut. Lyell was found there, killed
by splinters of a shell. This occurred on November
25, 1917.
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