100 years ago

The preservation and training of young life as an offset to battlefield losses was emphasised at the Mars Training Ship meeting in Dundee. A surplus of the accounts had been transferred to the capital fund, and in the report regarding the boys it was stated that out of 313 boys who had left the ship during the three years 1914 to 1916, inclusive, 292 were classed as satisfactory, 14 as fairly satisfactory and only seven as unsatisfactory. Out of 28 boys who had died, 22 were killed on naval or military service.