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The Captain George Garry Foster Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

George Foster attended Mount Royal College from 1948 to 1952. The Varshicom Yearbook speculated that Foster would become a chemist “if his Chem I exploits are any forecast.” After Mount Royal, Foster married and had two sons. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Captain Foster earned the Canadian Forces Decoration, Memorial Cross ER 11 and United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. He died while flying from Beirut to Damascus with the “Buffalo Nine,” named after the Canadian-made Buffalo airplane. In 2005, a monument was unveiled at Calgary’s Peacekeeper Park to honour Captain Foster and the eight soldiers who died alongside him in the largest single-day loss of life in Canadian Forces peacekeeping history.

The Lieutenant Everett Boyd Jackson Fallis Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Everett Fallis was born in Haldimand, Ont. and came to Calgary when his father, Rev. Dr. Samuel Fallis — a personal friend of Mount Royal College founding Principal Rev. Dr. George W. Kerby — became the minister at Central Methodist Church. Fallis attended Mount Royal College from 1911 to 1915 He enlisted with the 102nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Central Ontario Regiment. He went overseas as a private, but quickly gained battlefield commissions to lieutenant. Fallis was killed on the first day of the Battle of Vimy Ridge by sniper fire while holding an enemy trench that was taken in the initial attack. According to his commanding officer, Fallis was deserving of the highest award for gallantry that day.

The Flying Officer Benjamin Emil Ehnisz Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Benjamin Ehnisz was born in 1921 and came to Mount Royal in 1938 from Burstall, Saskatchewan. The Chinook Yearbook describes Ben as “a very amiable lad whose ambition on completing his education is to return to Saskatchewan and rehabilitate the drought area.” Flying Officer Ehnisz joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and died on February 13, 1943, at the age of 22. The student he was instructing survived the fire when Ehnisz ordered him to bail out. Ehnisz Island at Kakabigish Lake in northern Saskatchewan is named in his honour.

The Private Cecil Wallar Duke Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Cecil Wallar Duke was born in Havercork, Ont. in 1895 and lived in Banff before attending Mount Royal College during its first two years of operation. A well-known and popular athlete, Duke was the star player on the Mount Royal College hockey team in 1911/12 and the lacrosse team in 1912/13. After leaving Mount Royal, Duke worked as a brakeman on the Canadian Pacific Railway line from Calgary to Edmonton. He was one of the first to join the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, British Columbia Regiment and was killed in France at the age of 22 years. Private Duke is also remembered on the Banff Cenotaph erected by the Mount Rundle Chapter IODE.

The Flying Officer Harold James Crowe Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Harold Crowe was born in Calgary in 1919. He attended Earl Grey School, Western Canada High School and Mount Royal College and was a druggist apprentice. In May 1941, Crowe enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Calgary, and received his training in camps across Western Canada. Crowe graduated as an Air Observer from No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School in Paulson, Man. Flying Officer Crowe was killed on March 12, 1943, at the age of 24.

The Sergeant Frederick Ernest Boalch Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Frederick Boalch was born in 1924, the son of E.H. Boalch, who was employed with the CPR in Calgary. In 1943, Boalch attended Mount Royal College, where he kept his fellow students entertained with his band, performing at the February Hockey Club dance. According to the Varshicom Yearbook, Freddie’s pastime was “his own lit’ orchestra” and not surprisingly his ambition was “to become a great band leader.” Sergeant Boalch left Mount Royal to join the Royal Canadian Air Force and died near the end of the war on his 21st birthday, February 12, 1945.

The Flight Sergeant Douglas Oliver Bevan Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Douglas Bevan was born in 1920, the son of a Methodist minister and his wife. Bevan attended Mount Royal College in the 1930s, was a teacher and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941. His training school noted that he was “keen, ambitious, should do a good job… cheerful and philosophical under difficulties.” Flight Sergeant Bevan died on December 25, 1942, at the age of 29 while serving with the Bomber Command flying out of Montreal. 

The Gunner Kenneth Beaumont Bell Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Kenneth Bell was born in 1916 in Gleichen, Alberta. He received his early schooling in a one-room school and came to Mount Royal College at the age of 12. In 1929, he returned home to work on the family farm. Bell was a strong athlete. He played hockey in the winter and, after he enlisted in 1943, Bell became a star pitcher for the fastball team at training camp in Manitoba. During the war, he served as a gunner with the 2nd Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery. Gunner Bell was killed in 1944 at the age of 28 at the Battle of Ortona, Italy.

The Warrant Officer Class II Frank Harvey Barker Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

Harvey Barker came to Calgary from Carbon, Alberta to attend Mount Royal College in 1938. He returned in 1939 and was elected president of the High School class. The Chinook Yearbook gives this portrait of Barker: “a Badminton player deluxe. One of the best-liked fellows of the Boys’ Dorm, and always ready with a bright comeback to the would-be wit of the school. Studies hard, often working far into the night on his stamp collection.” The next year, Barker joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as Warrant Officer, Class II, 4189 Squadron and was killed during a raid over Germany when he went missing over enemy waters.

The Private James Alexander Arnell Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

James Arnell was the first Mount Royal College student killed in battle during the First World War. Born in Springbank, Arnell came from a pioneering Alberta family, active in the Baptist church. Arnell enrolled at Mount Royal in 1912 and played on the rugby team. Upon graduation, he joined the 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Corps, Alberta Regiment. He served and died in France at the age of 20 years when a rifle grenade fell on the roof of a dug-out, killing him instantly. Private Arnell received the 1914–1915 Star, a medal awarded to soldiers by the British government for service between August 1914 and December 1915.