Organisations > Loretto roll of honour, 1914-1920

ROLL OF HONOUR 23
Alan James Gardener, Private, Canadian Infantry, was
born in January 1895, and was at Loretto 1909 to
1911. He enlisted in Canada, in a Scottish Battalion,
on August 6, 1914, came to England with the 1st
Canadian Contingent, and spent the first autumn and
winter of the war training on Salisbury Plain. He
went to France on Good Friday 1915, and took part
in the Second Battle of Ypres, April and May 1915.
His Battalion then went south to the neighbourhood
of La Bassee, and Alan Gardener was killed during
the last phase of the Battle of Festubert, May 20, 1915.
Lieutenant - Commander Mungo Campbell Gibson,
R.N.V.R., born May 1890, was at Loretto 1904 to
1906. When the Forth Division R.N.V.R. was formed
in 1913 he was given the command. In September
1914 he was promoted Lieutenant- Commander in the
" Nelson " Battalion, Royal Naval Division, and with
it served in the Antwerp Expedition. His Battalion
went to Gallipoli in April 1915, and during the
first Battle of Krithia, May 1, 1915, was sent up to
strengthen the French extreme right, and helped to
repulse the Turkish attack. On the night of May 2
the enemy attacked again, and during the fight Lieut. -
Commdr. Gibson was shot through the head and killed
instantly.