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ROLL OF HONOUR 33
2nd Lieutenant Gerald Broughton Hopkins, 7/8th
Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, was born in
May 1884, and was at Loretto 1894 to 1904. Head of
School and Captain of the XV. A business man,
residing at Cardross, he applied for a commission at
the outbreak of the war, and was gazetted to the 7/ 8th
Battn. K.O.S.B. Near Loos, on September 17, 1918,
his Battalion was attacking the enemy trenches, and
Lieut. Hopkins, although wounded in the hand, per-
sisted in rallying and leading his men forward under
a heavy machine-gun fire. Just short of their final
objective he was again hit, this time in the head, and
killed on the spot.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Wardlaw Horne, The Sea-
forth Highlanders, was born in May 1886, and was at
Loretto from 1896 to 1898, when he went to Harrow.
At the outbreak of war he was planting rubber in
Ceylon, and volunteered for service with the Ceylon
Planters Rifles. He went with them to Egypt, and
was present at the attack on the Suez Canal. In
April 1915 he landed at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, and
was severely wounded there in August of that year
and invalided home. He was given a commission in
the Seaforths, returned to the front, was reported
missing on August 22, 1917, and later reported killed
on that date.