Second Lieutenant P T Loft was killed in action on March 24, 1918. He came to St Bees School Oundation from St Michael’s College, Tenbury, where he had been a chorister. During the time he was at School (1913-17) he took an active part in all School games and was a corporal in the O.T.C. He had a great love for music, and his musical abilities were turned to account at the School Concerts and House Music Competitions. In his last year he gained an Open History Exhibition at Keble College, Oxford. He obtained his commission in the King’s Royal Rifles in August 1917, and went to France in October and was attached to the 18th K.R.R.C. His Division was sent to Italy with the Italian Expeditionary Force, and there he was given a temporary position on the Brigadiers Staff. Returning to France in March 1918, he rejoined his Regiment a few days before the Germans made their great attack upon the British Fifth Army, in which the King’s Royal Rifles we’re engaged and suffered many casualties.

Elizabeth Wood