Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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LiEUT. GEO. Р. VANIER, 706 САРТ. JoHN C. WICKHAM, '09 LIEUT. ARTHUR MCGOVERN, 09 САРТ. JOHN P. WALSH, 704 LOYOLA OLD BOYS AT THE FRONT

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LOYOLA COLLEGE REVIEW 19 Quebec battalion of the First Contingent has had some remarkable experiences. A long letter from him printed in the papers gave a very vivid picture of some severe fighting. Joe Power left with the same battalion. The names of Gerald Furlong and Donald Hingston belong more to St. Mary's College than to Loyola, though they appear in our first College Catalogue. The latter, with the rank of Captain, is one of the senior surgeons in Number Three General Hospital. “Jerry” Furlong is Captain and Quarter-master of the 24th Battalion in which Lawrence Wilson, Gussie Rain- ville, Leo Le Bouthillier and Adrian McKenna are privates or N.C.O's., Victor Walsh, a Lieutenant, and Jack Jenkins, Hon. Captain and Medical Officer, Roddy Watt and Harry Kelly have gone or are on the eve of departure. Harry Davis married in England and there joined the Royal Field Artillery. Harold Hingston and Ernie McKenna are soon to leave for the front. They are going as Lieutenants in the 60th Battalion. Tom Guerin, who, ever since leaving College, has been active in Militia affairs and was a Major in the Duke of York's Hussars at the age of twenty- three, is now in Barracks at St. John, Que. with the Remount Department and preparing to go to the front. Our Graduates are deserving of special mention. We have sixty-three Graduates living. Of these, six are now resident in the United States, and nine have joined the ranks of the Clergy. Of the remaining forty-eight, eight have already gone to the front. They are in order of graduation and with their new military titles: Captain John P. Walsh, (04), C.A.M.C.; Lieutenant George P. Vanier (06), “Royal Canadien;' Sergeant Francis Maguire (07); Lieutenant Charles С. Power (07), who went over with the Canadian Battalion from Quebec, now serving in some English regiment; Sergeant Leo Lynch (08), Borden's Armoured Battery; Lieutenant Arthur McGovern (709); Captain John C. Wickham (09), C.A.M.C., Number Three General Hospital; Captain John D. Shee (10), C.A.M.C. 'To our list of Graduates at the front we are tempted to add the name of Honorary Captain George Boyce, who took his B.A. (08) and Medical degrees at Laval, Quebec, and left as Medical Officer in the same battalion as Frank Maguire. Few Loyola Old Boys are more attached to the College than is George Boyce. То Old Boys at the front, who are risking their lives in the cause of patriotism and of justice, the thoughts of all Loyola students past and present go out with admiration and pride. Our prayers, too, will follow them, that all may come back safe. Yet, if it please God that some of them should not return, if the sacrifice they made on leaving has been accepted, we pray that they may fall gloriously, as faithful soldiers of Christ as they are of their earthly King.