Organisations > Loretto roll of honour, 1914-1920

ROLL OF HONOUR 57
Captain Charles Russell, Indian Army Reserve of
Officers, born July 1872, was at Loretto 1885 to 1892.
A scholar of Hertford College, Oxon., he took first-
class honours in " Greats ", entered the Education
Service of India, and became Principal of Bankepore
College. On leave at the outbreak of war he joined
a Sportsman's Battalion, was commissioned in the
East Yorks Regiment, and later was attached to a
Battalion of Gurkha Rifles in Palestine. He was
killed on November 22, 1917, at Nebi Samwil (the
tomb of the Prophet Samuel), a mosque five miles
N.W. of Jerusalem, during a very heavy attack by
strongly reinforced Turkish forces.
Trooper John Robson Scott, Lothians and Border
Horse Yeomanry Regiment (since converted into the
19th Armoured Car Company, Tank Corps), was born
in May 1895, and was at Loretto from 1909 to 1913.
When war broke out he joined the Lothians and
Border Horse, and is stated to have been the best
rider and best shot in his squadron.
John Robson Scott fell ill whilst on service with
his Regiment, and after a very long and painful illness
he died of pneumonia in a nursing home in Edinburgh
on October 15, 1915.