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This Honour Roll commemorates Mount Royal Junior College students, faculty, and staff who served in the Second World War. It was displayed in a prominent place in the old Mount Royal College campus in downtown Calgary before it was moved to Mount Royal University Library's Archives and Special Collections. This style of an Honour Roll was designed by A.J. Casson when he worked at Sampson-Matthews, a prominent midtown Toronto lithography and commercial art company.

This Honour Roll commemorates Mount Royal College students, faculty, and staff who served in the Second World War. It was displayed in a prominent place in the old Mount Royal College campus in downtown Calgary before it was moved to Mount Royal University Library's Archives and Special Collections.

This style of an Honour Roll was designed by A.J. Casson when he worked at Sampson-Matthews, a prominent midtown Toronto lithography and commercial art company.

The Lieutenant Gordon Shaw Wilkin Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Gordon Wilkin was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and came to Alberta with his family, enrolling at Mount Royal College in 1911. Before joining the Flying Corps in Toronto in March 1917, Wilkin worked as a bookkeeper for the Calgary Gas Company and developed a wide circle of friends. In England, he served as an instructor on the Handley-Page aircraft. At the time of his death in 1918, Flight Lieutenant Wilkin was serving with the No. 2 Auxiliary School of Aerial Gunnery with the Royal Air Force.

The Private Roswell Jay Shantz Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Roswell Shantz was born in Kitchener, Ontario in 1899 and came to Carstairs, Alberta with his Methodist family, who sent him and his brother to attend Mount Royal College in 1911. After leaving Mount Royal, Shantz remained in Calgary, working as a mechanic and eventually joining Lord Strathcona’s Horse, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Private Shantz died of influenza on November 4, 1918 — just days before an armistice was signed to end the First World War on November 11, 1918.

The Captain Vincent Leslie Schurman Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2020.

Vince Schurman served as a Captain Pilot with #435 Transport and Rescue Squadron on Canadian Air Force Peacekeeping duties. #435 Squadron’s mandate includes air to air refueling of fighter aircraft as well as transporting freight and passengers worldwide. Born in Ponoka on June 28, 1961, he enlisted in the armed forces January 7, 1987, following graduation as a pilot from Mount Royal College. Captain Schurman flew more than 100 missions during six tours of duty in war torn Sarajevo and flew supplies to isolated Kurds in northern Iraq. He was one of five Canadian airmen killed in action when their C130 aircraft crashed at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright during a low-altitude parachute extraction exercise. A meticulous craftsman, Vince was in the process of building his own 2 place high performance Q2 aircraft. He left behind his father, mother and brother Stan, Carol, and Brad; his wife Joanne and 3 year old daughter Lindsay.

The Private John Hawley Ross Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

John Ross was the second Mount Royal student killed in the First World War. Born in Toronto, Ross attended Mount Royal from 1912 to 1913 and later worked as a clerk. He enlisted on August 23, 1915, in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Serving less than a year, Private Ross was instantly killed in France by a bomb dropped from an enemy airplane. Along with fellow Mount Royal student Private James Arnell, he received the 1914–1915 Star, a First World War medal awarded by the British government.

The Private Hans Raskesen Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Hans Raskesen was born in Alslev, Denmark in 1890. While his parents remained in Denmark, he attended Mount Royal College before joining the 50th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Corps, Alberta Regiment. Like fellow Mount Royal student Private James Arnell, he had trained in Alberta with the 191st Battalion. Private Raskesen was killed by enemy shell fire when he was manning a post south of Passchendaele. He was 27 years old.

The Captain Douglas Gordon Purdy Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Douglas Purdy was born in 1920, attended Mount Royal College and enlisted into the 14th Army Tank, Calgary Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Purdy’s regiment was the first tank regiment of the Canadian army to go into battle with the enemy and the first engaged in amphibious assault during the Second World War. Purdy was killed in action during the Battle of Dieppe at the age of 22. He drowned when his tank sank one hundred yards from shore, struck bottom and took on water.

The Pilot Officer Arthur Beverly Polley Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Arthur Polley was born in 1913, lived in Calgary with his family, and attended Mount Royal College in the 1930s. Polley was a teacher at Beaver Lodge, then Principal at Craigmyle School. He was an avid badminton player, skater and curler. When he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot Officer, Polley left behind his young wife, who was living in Strathmore, Alta. Pilot Officer Polley died on June 11, 1942 in a flying accident at Chater, Manitoba, when two aircrafts collided at Charter Relief Aerodrome.

The Lieutenant Harold Stone Musgrove Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Harold Musgrove, a native Albertan, was born in Canmore in 1895. He attended Mount Royal College before enlisting in August 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Canadian Corps Cavalry Regiment. Lieutenant Musgrove later served briefly with the 57th Squadron of the Royal Air Force, founded in April 1918, and was killed five months later in France.