The Roll of Honour (part 16)

VASSALLI, ALFRED JEROME, Corpl., No. 305, 2nd King Edward’s Horse, s. of John Vassalli, of Scarborough, Jet Ornament Manufacturer, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Hardy; b. Whitby, co. York, 27 Aug. 1881; educ. Scarborough; was an officer in the Merchant Service, and was training with the Naval Reserve when the South African War broke out; volunteered, went with the naval guns to the Relief of Ladysmith, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State and Natal (Queen’s medal with five bars), and was for some time despatch rider for Gen. Bethune, in whose cavalry regt. he afterwards served. He was a Naval Reservist, and on the outbreak of war was called up, but failed to pass the medical examination, and, being anxious to serve his country, joined the 2nd King Edward’s Horse, and was promoted Corpl. His health, however, broke down, and he died in King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, 1 Oct. 1914, from pneumonia contracted while in camp at Slough. He was a Rural District Councillor at Drigg, Cumberland. He m. at Scarborough 3 Sept. 1902, Anne Pembroke (Derwent House, Drigg, Holmrook, Cumberland), dau. of Frederick Reynolds, of the Inland Revenue Department, and had three children: Frederick John, b. 10 Nov. 1911; Annie Reynolds, b. 1 Feb. 1904; and Jessie Irene, b. 30 Dec. 1905.

JONES-VAUGHAN, EVAN NANNEY, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, of Llwydyn, Carnarvonshire, C.B., Col.-in-Chief of the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. (who served through the Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Eva, dau. of the late Rev. Evan C. Owen, of Hengwrtucha, Merionethshire, and Aberhirriaeth Hall, T.L., J.P.; b. Llwydyn, 5 Sept. 1885; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 22 Feb. 1905; and promoted Lieut. 4 Dec. 1909, and Capt. 19 April, 1913; left for France, 10 Aug. 1914; and was killed in action not far from the village of Vertouquet, near Armentières, 26 Oct. following, by the explosion of a shell (but reports differ), which also killed two Lieuts., a Sergt. and two men of his battn. Buried 600 metres from the spot where he fell; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I have lost a most gallant and capable officer and a very dear companion.”

VAVASOUR, LIONEL ORMISTON, Lieut., 2nd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of Albert Carter Vavasour, M.A., J.P., of Weston Manor, Otley, co. York, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of C. H. Dawson, J.P., Weston Hall; b. Killwick Hall, Beverley, 29 Aug. 1889; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. 28 May, 1910, from the Special Reserve, and promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1913; went to India with his regt. in 1912, and died at Gharial, 24 July, 1915, while on active service; unm. Lieut. Vavasour was a keen sportsman, a clever cricketer, and while at school won several silver cups, especially for the eight miles’ race. In the regt. he found cricket and football “going to pieces,” but soon established a revival of keen interest, and regularly made his century with his team. He was the crack shot of his regt., and sent many trophies home to witness to his prowess with the rifle, including the heads of three urial and three chinkara from Kashmir, which was said to be the biggest bag an officer had ever secured there.

VEITCH, FRANCIS, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115773, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VENN, ERNEST ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1393), 201717, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VENNER, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4893), S.S. 104302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VENNING, EDWIN GERALD, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Suffolk Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edwin James Venning, Chaplain in Cassel, Germany, by his wife, Amy, dau. of William Lawrence; b. Southsea, 7 June, 1883; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, and afterwards took up acting. From about 1911, he travelled in the provinces with touring companies, playing important parts, and when war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was acting at Brighton. He at once volunteered, and enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regt. in Sept. and was subsequently gazetted Lieut. 3rd Suffolks, 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 9 June, 1915; went to the Front, 3 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Aug. following; unm. Buried in Locre Churchyard. Sergt. Major Utting, in writing to his sister, said: “Your brother, Capt. Venning, was my company officer, and he has treated myself and the men of my company in such a manner that he has gained a respect that will last as long as there is a man of the present B Coy. alive.”

VERCO, WALTER JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch./10669, H.M.S Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

VERCOE, HENRY STEVEN, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4863, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VEREKER, ROBERT HUMPHREY MEDLICOTT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd s. of George Medlicott Vereker, of Sharpitor, near Salcombe, South Devon, J.P. for co. Galway, Freeman of the City of Dublin, late Capt. Kildare Militia, by his wife, Frances Gore, eldest dau. of Robert Manders, of Landscape, Dundrum, co. Dublin, and grandson of the Hon. John Prendergast Vereker [3rd son of John Prendergast, 3rd Viscount Gort]; b. Dublin, 15 Oct. 1894; educ. Cheam, Osborne Naval College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Grenadier Guards, 17 Sept. 1913, and joined his battn. the following month at the Tower of London; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the desperate night battle at Landrecies, on the 25th of the same month. Buried at Landrecies; unm. The Rev. Benjamin G. O. Rorke, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “You have probably already heard that your brave son met his death in action on the 25th inst. while trying to draw Corpl. Bacchus of his regt. out of the range of the German fire. Corpl. Bacchus, who was wounded, is now convalescent, and, if spared, can tell you all about it. He showed me the exact spot at Landrecies, on the town side of the railway level-crossing, on the left of the road. It was a brave man’s death. There were in his pocket a silver flask from his mother and his own ‘Onoto’ diary. I gave them into the custody of the medical officer, Major Fry (brother of C. B. Fry), to take charge of for you. He was buried in the next grave to Lord Hawarden and the Hon. Windsor Clive on the one side, and eight men of the Coldstream Guards on the other, and on the same occasion we erected a rough wooden cross inscribing the names. The following day the wife of the ‘Garde Cimetière’ brought me a wooden cross of a more substantial kind, and I left instructions for the names to be painted on it; it was her own thought and her own tribute. Mme. Bocquet, The Pharmacie, Grande Rue, Landrecies (a very kind lady), undertook to see this done. I have heard from the regt. how much he is missed. He died like a brave man. This will be a great consolation to you.” The house and grounds at Sharpitor were lent to the Red Cross Society for the duration of the war by Mr. and Mrs. George Vereker in memory of their son.

VERGE, ARTHUR, Capt., A.A.M.C., attd. 6th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Austral Verge, of Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales, Grazier, by his wife, Matilda Jane, dau. of Henry Flavelle, of Hamilton Terrace, London; b. Kempsey, 12 Feb. 1880; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Burton Exhibitioner in 1898, and St. Paul’s College within Sydney University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.M., in 1905; was for two years (1905–6) resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital; then proceeded to England, where he attended the leading London hospital skin departments, and took courses in Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy. After a post graduate course at Edinburgh University he qualified F.R.C.S. there in 1908, and then visited Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, and attended the skin clinics and took courses in the treatment of skin diseases under Sabarand, Brocq, Thebierge, Albaran (Paris), Finger, Rheil, Oppenheim, Kapsammer (Vienna), Blaschko, Josephs and Wasserman (Berlin). Returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Skin Department for three months, and later non-resident house physician for one year (1909–10), at the Royal Infirmary, and while holding these positions had charge of the X-Ray department, and the radium treatment under Dr. Cranston Low. He took a six months’ course in Vaccine Therapy and Bacteriology of the Skin at the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1910 published in the “British Medical Journal” (31 Dec.) an article on “The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris by Tuberculin Ointment.” He then returned to Australia and practised as a skin specialist in Sydney, and in 1911 obtained the position of Hon. Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital there. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and was given a commission as Capt. A.A.M.C., 2 Oct. 1914; left Sydney as medical officer to the 6th Light Horse with the second reinforcements, and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service with his regt. at Anzac Cove; unm. He represented both King’s School and St. Paul’s College in cricket, football, tennis and rowing. He played with the University Union Football Team, and was full-back for three seasons. He played full-back for New South Wales against Queensland in 1902 and 1904, and while in the old country played rugger with Blackheath and other Rugby clubs. Dr. Verge was also a capital all-round cricketer, and at one time was the most successful bowler at the University. He played in two matches against Melbourne University, scoring 10 and 2, and taking two for 22 and six for 20 in 1903; and scoring 4 and 5, and taking four for 70 and three for 69 in 1904. His yr. brother, Dr. C. A. Verge, is now with No. 32 General Hospital, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.

VICAT, HORATIO JOHN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., eldest surviving s. of the late Horatio Nelson Vicat, of Sevenoaks, by his wife, Miriam Frances Kate (East Lodge, Sevenoaks), dau. of Henry Augustus Prevost Holland, of Quebec, Canada [grandson of Capt. Samuel Holland, R.A., A.D.C. to General at the capture of Quebec, and afterwards Surveyor General of Quebec and Director of Surveys in British North America]; b. Melbourne, P. Quebec, Canada, 24 June, 1885; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal West Kents, 25 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 26 May, 1908; was seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force (Gold Coast Regt.), from Nov. 1910 to Oct. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Missy, during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914. He was in command of his company when they were forming advanced guard to the Brigade and he was leading his men down to make good a bridge-head which was held by the enemy when they opened fire with a machine-gun, and he was killed instantly. Buried 300 yards East-South-East of Missy Bridge on the south side of the river; unm.

VIGUS, ROBERT EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8507, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

VILES, WILLIAM, Gunner, R.M.A., 13533, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VILLIS, LEYSHON, Trooper, No. 748, 18th Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of George Villis, by his wife, Mary Ann (Hayes Cottages, Sully, near Cardiff), dau. of Leyshon Watkin; b. Mountain Ash, co. Glamorgan, 17 April, 1893; educ. Sully; went to Australia, 1 Dec. 1911; volunteered and enlisted following the outbreak of war, 15 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

VINALL, CHARLES COBDEN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3591), S.S. 957, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VINALL, EDWARD ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3504), S.S. 1184, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VINCE, DAN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9107), 234619, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VINCENT, THOMAS ERNEST, Blacksmith’s Mate, M. 3134, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VINCENT, WILLIAM, Private, No. 6540, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of William Offer Vincent, of Garsdon, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Charles Vincent; b. Garsdon, co. Wilts, 6 May, 1883; educ. Lea National School; enlisted 8 Jan. 1906, and was killed in action at Villers Cotteretts, 1 Sept. 1914, being buried at Rue de la Reine on the 4th. He m. at Ampeny St. Peter, co. Gloucester, Elizabeth (Garsdon, Malmesbury, Wilts), dau. of Edwin Wheeler, and had issue: Francis William, b. 17 July, 1911; William Charles, b. 29 Sept. 1912; and Joan, b. (posthumous) 21 Dec. 1914.

VINE, RICHARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 9739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

VINEY, CECIL HENRY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of Cecil T. Viney, of Bromley, Kent; b. 24 May, 1891; educ. South Lodge, Enfield Chase, and Westminster, and then entered the Royal Academy School of Painting, where he was still a student in Aug. 1914, when war was declared. He immediately volunteered for Imperial Service and was given a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers, Northamptonshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914, and later posted to the 2nd Battn. He went to France and was killed in action near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm.

VINEY, PHILIP ERNEST, Capt., 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Josiah Ernest Viney, of Cintra, Swanage, formerly of Harcourts, Chertsey, M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng.; b. 23 April, 1888; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Leicesters, 8 Feb. 1908, and was promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1910, and Capt. 24 Aug. 1914. He served with the 1st Battn. at Shorncliffe, and later with the 2nd Battn. at Belgaum, and 5 Oct. 1911, was seconded for service with the Gold Coast Regt., and did good work in West Africa. He was A.D.C. to Sir Hugh Clifford, but on the outbreak of war came home and rejoined his regt., and died in the field hospital at Bailleul, 17 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

VINNALL, EDWARD ARTHUR, A.B., S.S. 1184, R.F.R., B. 3904, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VIVIAN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Brevet Lieut.-Col., 15th (Ludhiana) Sikhs, Indian Army, 3rd and yst. s. of the late Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell, formerly Vivian, of Asknish, C.B., D.L., J.P., Bengal S.C., by his wife, Margaret Agnes (Asknish House, Lochgair, co. Argyle), elder dau. and co. h. of Col. James Duff MacIver-Campbell, of Asknish; b. Dalhousie, India, 28 July, 1874; educ. Clifton College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut (unattd. list) Indian Army, 30 Aug. 1893; was attached to the Gordon Highlanders for his first year; joined the Indian Staff Corps, 27 Jan. 1895, and was promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1895, Capt. 30 Aug. 1902, and Major, 30 Aug. 1911; served (1) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (medal with clasp); (2) on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, including operations on the Samana and in the Kurram Valley during Aug. and Sept. 1897, and those of the Flying Column in the Kurram Valley, under Col. Richardson, 20 Aug. to 1 Oct. 1897 (two clasps); (3) in the Tirah Expedition, 1897–8; including actions of Chagree Kotal and Dargai; the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; reconnaissance of the Saran Sar and action of 9 Nov. 1897; and operations of the Waran Valley, and action of 16 Nov. 1897 (clasp); and (4) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Oct. 1914 to 27 April, 1915. Delayed by illness in Egypt, he did not join his regt. at the front until Oct. and was wounded in Dec. He returned to duty in Jan. and was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, and promoted Brevet Lieut.-Col. 18 Feb. following, for service in the field. In the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, where his regt. took a leading part, he was again wounded, but refused to leave his men and remained in the trenches under very heavy fire. He was killed in action near St. Julien, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 27 April, 1915. About 5.30 p.m., under cover of a bombardment of the Sirhind Brigade, the 1st Highland Light Infantry, and the 15th Sikhs were ordered to advance, but were met with such a terrific fire that a check ensued. Col. Vivian had to rush with his company over a fire swept zone to join the remainder of his regt. Just as he arrived he was shot through the body. An officer wrote: “I think that Col. Vivian was the bravest man I ever met—he seemed absolutely fearless of bullets, and his patrol work in front of our trenches at night was really wonderful. He inspired all the Sikh officers and men of his company with the greatest confidence, and made them nearly as fearless as himself. Once there was a house 30 yards in front of our trenches and it obscured our field of fire. The regt. who occupied the trenches before we did, said that they had tried to pull down the house, but had had to give up the attempt, because the enemy fired on them. Col. Vivian called for volunteers of his company to assist him to demolish the house. The whole company to a man volunteered—he chose the requisite number and in two days the house was flat; although they worked in daylight, not a single man was hit. I shall never forget the thrill of admiration I had for him when he volunteered to go behind the German line for two or three nights and reconnoitre the German position at La Bassée, but I was very relieved when the General would not allow him to go. Each time that he was wounded he insisted on going on with his work; any ordinary man would have been very shaken. We have lost a very dear friend, and England one of her bravest soldiers.” Col. Abbott, writing to The Pioneer about the Tirah Campaign, said: “Your report, moreover, makes no mention of the very gallant and prompt manner in which, when Capt. Lewarne’s party was rushed from the wood, the next one was brought up to his aid by Lieut. Vivian. The second party also got to close quarters with the enemy and to them must be accredited a large proportion of the Afridi losses on that occasion.” He m. at Portsmouth, 30 Aug. 1906, Mary Hastings, eldest surviving dau. of the late Joseph Studholme, of Ballyeighan, King’s Co., J.P., and had three children: Aylmer Studholme, b. 17 Aug. 1909; John, b. 30 Aug. 1913; and Margaret Ruth, b. 25 June, 1907.

VISCOUNT, JOHN THOMAS, Private, No. 1065, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Charles B. Viscount, of Dunville, Placentia, Newfoundland, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Jane Norman; b. Cape Shore, Newfoundland, 23 March, 1895; educ. Dunville afsd.; was a Fisherman; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 14 Jan. 1915; left for England, May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, Sept. 1915, and died on board the Hospital Ship Valdivia, 30 Oct. 1915, of wounds in the head received in action there. Buried at sea, Long. 23,26 E., Lat. 36,43 N.; unm.

VYVYAN, WALTER DRUMMOND, Lieut., 2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, elder s. of Capt. Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan, of Trewan, St. Columb. Cornwall, late 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt. and Temp. Lieut.-Col. 21st (Reserve) Battn. of the same, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward Sladen Foster, of Dowsby, co. Lincoln; b. Bath, co. Somerset, 20 March, 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 May, 1907, and promoted Lieut. 19 March, 1910; went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, Belgium, 2 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

WACHER, GEOFFREY GIBBINGS, Sergt., No. 517, 1/16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Alfred Wacher, of the Anchor Brewery, Bermondsey, S.E., and Herne Bay, by his wife, Lucy Durant, dau. of Henry Gibbings, of North Tawton, Devon; b. Bermondsey, 25 April, 1891; educ. St. Anne’s School, Redhill, Surrey; was for some years in the employ of Chas. Morgan & Co., Paper Manufacturers, London; joined the Queen’s Westminsters, 22 Jan. 1909; volunteered for Imperial Service, Aug. 1914, and left for France, as Corpl. 1 Nov. 1914; promoted Sergt. June, 1915, and placed in charge of the machine-gun section, to which he had been transferred in Jan.; and was killed in action 9 Aug. following; unm. The Queen’s Westminsters were in support during the attack on Hooge on 9 Aug., and, after this had proved successful, occupied the first line trenches. During the severe bombardment by the enemy’s artillery which followed, our men took refuge in dug-outs. There were a large number of casualties, and Sergt. Wacher gave up his place of safety to some wounded men, and a few minutes later was killed by a shell. He had done valuable work with his battn. before war broke out, during its period of training, and more especially at the Front. One of his officers wrote: “He was one of the most popular fellows in the battn. among all ranks, and his loss is considered a regimental catastrophe”; and another wrote: “Ever since he went to the guns he had done excellent work as well as winning the affections of all the section.” He had been recommended for a commission by his Commanding Officer, and expected to return to England any day to take up his new duties, but owing to the heavy fighting could not be spared. An elder brother, Lieut. Walter Ronald Wacher, is (1916) on active service with the 2nd Royal Berkshires.

WACKETT, FREDERICK JAMES, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3158), 151740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WADDY, JOHN RAYMOND, B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lieut., R.A.M.C., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Waddy, late Commanding 2nd Somerset L.I., and grandson of Gen. Sir Richard Waddy, K.C.B., 50th Regt.; b. Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 15 Feb. 1886; educ. Clifton College; Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King’s College Hospital; qualified M.R.C.S., and L.R.C.P. (London) 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission as temporary Lieut., R.A.M.C., 11 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action by a stray bullet, Bois de Ploegsteert, 17 March, 1915; unm. Buried in Somerset Cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan 1915, and was awarded the Military Cross, 18 Feb. 1915. An officer of the Somersets wrote: “We were all, both officers and men alike, absolutely devoted to him; he was brave as a lion, and always ready to help anybody who needed him; no name will go down in the history of the regt. with more honour than his, for everybody loved him and realised his sterling qualities.” And the Chairman of the King’s College Hospital: “Both at King’s College, London, and at King’s College Hospital, your son was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. As you know, he finished a brilliant career at the hospital by obtaining the senior scholarship of this year, and was forthwith appointed House Surgeon to Professor Sir Watson Cheyne; the latter appointment he fulfilled to the complete satisfaction of his seniors, and during his residence in hospital he considerably enhanced that high reputation he had already gained.”

WADE, FREDERICK WALTER, Private, No. 13069, 2nd Battn. The Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of Frederick William Wade, of Hall Cottage, Foxhall, near Ipswich, Farm Horseman, by his wife, Edith Florence, dau. of the late Joseph Goodchild; b. Bromeswell, near Woodbridge, 24 Sept. 1895; educ. Bucklesham; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, died from wounds received in action, 21 June, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery at Bailleul; unm.

WADE, STAMPER PLASKETT, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269679, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WADE, THOMAS, Private, No. 2565, 1/7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F), s. of John William Wade, of 150, Lansdowne Road, Dalston, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (—) Parker; b. Hackney, 2 June, 1890; educ. Wilton Road School, Dalston; volunteered for Imperial service, and joined the 7th London in Sept. 1914, and went to France, 17 March, and died in hospital at Bethune, 5 April, 1915, of wounds received in action, 3 April. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune; unm.

WADKINS, WILLIAM FERDINAND, A.B., J. 3223, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WADSWORTH, ALFRED CHARLES, Private, No. 12/1820, 16th Waikato Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late John Wadsworth, of 10, Pelham Road South, Gravesend, Kent, Watchmaker and Jeweller, by his wife, Alice (10, Pelham Road South, Gravesend, Kent), dau. of John Hawes; b. Cheshunt, co. Herts. 3 Sept. 1889; educ. Christ Church School, Wanstead; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand E.F., 15 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, 13 Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was reported missing on 8 May following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action there between those dates; unm.

WADSWORTH, THOMAS EDWIN, Private, No. 9537, 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Edwin Wadsworth, of 13, Beech Hall Road, of Highams Park, Essex, an employee of the British Bank of South America, Moorgate Street, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Thomas Brown, Baughurst, Hants, Farmer; b. Southfields, S.W., 1 March, 1896; educ. Central Foundation School, Cowper Street, E.C., and on leaving there entered the service of Samuel Montagu & Co., of Old Broad Street, E.C., and was a junior in the bullion department when war broke out. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade, 18 March, 1913, and at once volunteered for active service, and went to the Front with his regt. 4 Nov. 1914. On 27 April he left the shelter of his trench in order to succour a wounded stretcher-bearer, and assist him to the rear. Soon after his return to the firing line he was wounded by the splinter of a shell. As there was a scarcity of stretchers he insisted on walking in order that other wounded men might be carried. The walking caused him to lose a considerable quantity of blood, and he reached the base in a very weak condition. He died in Netley Hospital, 8 May, 1915, and was buried in Ilford Cemetery; unm. A Memorial Tablet was placed in St. Stephen’s Church, Coleman Street, where he was formerly a chorister, with the following inscription: “This tablet is erected in affectionate memory of T. Edwin Wadsworth, by the staff of Samuel Montagu & Co., of 60, Old Broad Street, to whom he had become endeared by his winsome ways and eager and faithful discharge of daily duties. One of the youngest in the ranks of the London Rifle Brigade, he responded instantly to the call of his King and Country, endured with fortitude the rigours of the winter campaign in Flanders, and whilst repelling an attack of the enemy on 27 April, 1915, received wounds which proved mortal. Fragile in frame, his body proved unequal to retain his brave young spirit, which returned to Him who gave it. He finished his earthly course 8 May, 1915, within a brief span of 19 years and 2 months, and now awaits another Trumpet Call. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ Jno. XV. 13.”

WAGLAND, ISAAC WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3885), 186631, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WAGSTAFF, ALFRED, Private, No. 114, 6/2, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of William Wagstaff, of Thorpe, near Thrapston, Northampton, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of Kidman Giddings, of Long Stow, Cambs.; b. Thorpe, co. Northants, 14 Sept. 1891; educ. Lilford School, near Oundle; worked in copper sheds on L. & N.W.R. at Birmingham; enlisted, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 28 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 30 Sept. 1915; unm. His four brothers, Samuel, William, Albert Kidman, and Jack, and a nephew, Reginald R. Wagstaff, are (1916) all on active service.

WAITE, CHARLES WILLIAM, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 1542), 169682, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WAITT, GEORGE GREENHILL, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27506 (Devonport), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WAKEFIELD, ARTHUR JAMES, Private, No. 11319, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Walter John Wakefield, of 2, Eleanor’s Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Robert Handcock; b. Wincolmlee, Hull, 22 Nov. 1890; educ. Lincoln Street School; was an oilmiller in the employ of Messrs. Chambers & Fargus; enlisted in the East Yorks after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 27 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He m. at Hull, 1 Oct. 1910, Maria (2, Eleanor’s Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull), dau. of Edward Scott, and had two children: Lily, b. 2 March, 1912; and Lottie, b. 4 April, 1914.

WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen’s College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; b. Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Oxfordshire L.I. 22 Jan. 1900, serving with them till Dec. 1904, and the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 5 Jan. 1905, serving till 4 Jan. 1908. On the outbreak of war he resigned his post at Whitechapel and joined the 7th London Regt.; went to France, 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 7 May, following; unm. Buried at Bethune.

WAKEMAN, EDWARD OFFLEY ROUSE, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, yr. s. of Sir Offley Wakeman, of Yeaton Peverey, Shrewsbury, and Rorrington Lodge, Chirbury, Shropshire, 3rd Bart., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, 11th Bart.; b. Downton Hall, near Ludlow, 15 Jan. 1889; educ. Eton, and St. John’s College, Oxford (B.A. 1912); was employed by the University in agricultural research and afterwards by the Board of Agriculture as Special Investigator, which position he resigned to join the Guards in Dec. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Jan. 1915; went to France in April and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; unm. He was buried on the field of battle near Richebourg l’Avoué. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had been with us a short time but amply long enough for us and his company to realise that in him we have lost a man and a gallant officer, and a good comrade. He was killed in the way we all hope to be killed (if it is willed that we are to be), that is gallantly leading men of the Brigade of Guards.” Lieut. Wakeman was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916].

WAKINSHAW, JAMES WILLIAM, Sapper, No. 51464, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of James Wood Wakinshaw, of Wolsingham, Publican, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Clark, of Whitton Park, co. Durham; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 31 March, 1891; educ. National School there; was employed at Pickersgill’s Yard, Sunderland, and resided at 43, Wear Street, Southwick, and had been for five years a member of the Durham Territorial R.G.A.; enlisted 10 Sept. 1914, for the period of the war; trained at Chatham and in Ireland; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and died 15 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action at Suvla Bay; unm. Wakinshaw was a good oarsman, winning many prizes, including the Molly Pratt Cup, four tankards, four medals, etc.

WALBURN, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Private, No. 1637, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Walburn, of 3, Portland Terrace, Redcar, co. Yorks, retired Hotel Proprietor, by his wife, Alice Helen, dau. of the late John Davison, of Redcar; b. Crakehall, near Bedale, co. York, 7 Aug. 1881; educ. Kirkleatham Private School; went to Australia in Oct. 1914, following a severe illness, and on his arrival found his health so much improved that he was able to join the Commonwealth E.F. at Sydney, 15 Dec. 1914; left Sydney for Egypt the following Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and in every engagement with his regt. till 3 Aug. when he was seriously wounded in the great charge at Lone Pine Ridge; and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, three days after admission, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery there. He m. at Redcar Parish Church, 23 Sept. 1903, Annie, dau. of the late William McNaughton, and had a son, William Cecil, b. 29 Jan. 1909.

WALDECK, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1506), 185963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALDUCK, LUKE, Private, No. 8050, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd s. of John Walduck, of Westbury, Brackley, Railway Labourer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Edmund Coleman; b. Drayton Parslow, co. Bucks, 16 Feb. 1886; educ. Mixbury, Oxon; enlisted 10 Oct. 1905, and was killed in action at St. Julien, France, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

WALFORD, HENRY, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 2829, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALFORD, HERBERT ASHFORD, Private, No. 2026, 1/14th Batt. (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas Charles Walford, of Maidenhead, Mineral Manager, Great Western Railway, by his 1st wife, Mary Ann Ashford, dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Tiverton; b. Southall, co. Middlesex, 26 Feb. 1889; educ. Maidenhead College; was on the staff of Messrs. Eveson & Co., Coal Merchants; joined the London Scottish, Feb. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 Sept. 1914, was reported missing after the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. He was unm. His younger brother, Private L. F. Walford, who was in the same battn. was wounded and taken a prisoner on this occasion and died the next day (see following notice).

WALFORD, LESLIE FRANCIS, Private, No. 2048, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), second s. of the late Thomas Charles Walford, of Maidenhead, Mineral Manager, Great Western Railway, by his 1st wife, Mary Ann Ashford, dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Tiverton; b. Southall, 6 Aug. 1891; educ. Maidenhead College; was Clerk to Wm. Cory’s, Mark Lane; joined the London Scottish, May, 1914; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 Sept. 1914; was wounded and taken prisoner during the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, and died the following day; unm. Buried at Messines-Wytschaete.

WALFORD, OLIVER ROBSON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., elder s. of the late Col. William Swordes Walford, of Warden Lodge, Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, R.A., by his 1st wife, Mary Ella, dau. of George Robson, of Altwood, Maidenhead Thicket; b. Warden House, Weymouth, co. Dorset, 25 June, 1895; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Hampshires, 13 Jan. 1915; went to France, 25 Jan., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm.

WALKER, ALFRED LEVI, Private, No. 14450, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of the late Walter George Walker, of Hackett Lane, Thornbury, co. Glos., Butcher, by his wife, Sophia (Crossways, Thornbury), dau. of Henry Honeyborne; b. Easton Hill, Thornbury, 10 March, 1889; educ. Board School there; enlisted in 1909, and was killed in action near Ypres, 10 Nov. 1914; unm.

WALKER, ANTHONY THORNTON, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of John Walker, of Bawtry, co. York, by his wife, Dorothy Mary, dau. of Thomas Taplin Wickham, of Bideford, N. Devon; b. Bawtry, 9 May, 1894; educ. Dulwich Preparatory School, from which he obtained a scholarship to Uppingham School, and from Uppingham secured an open scholarship and exhibition at University College, Oxford; joined the Public Schools Battn. Middlesex Regt. Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th Rifle Brigade, 2 Dec. following; left for France, 25 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 30 July, 1915, the day after he joined his battn. in the trenches; unm. At Uppingham he was captain of football, and played for his college at Oxford. He was also very musical, and was leader of the orchestra at Uppingham.

WALKER, ARCHIE NORMAN, L.-Corpl., No. 924, 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of Robert Percival Hoar, of 22, Quanza Street, Beach, East London, South Africa, by his wife, Cornelia Isabella (Nellie) Hoar, dau. of Peter Fostin; b. Cathcart, South Africa, 4 April, 1893; educ. East London; went to Australia in 1914; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914; left with the second reinforcements, and died 23 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles; unm. He was buried at sea from H.M. Hospital ship Nevasa in lat. 36.49N, long. 1° 2E.

WALKER, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3752), S.S. 1069, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALKER, EDMUND BASIL, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. George Sherbrooke Walker, M.A., Rector of March, by his wife, Jessie Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Carter, of Hazelwood, Edgbaston; b. Birmingham, 8 Aug. 1888; educ. The Towers, Portinscale, Keswick; Sherborne School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and soon after leaving college, went as a master to Sherborne Preparatory School. On 23 March, 1912, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Dorsetshire Regt. (Special Reserve), and after war broke out joined his regt. at the Front, afterwards transferring to the 1st Battn. Royal West Kents, and was given a commission in that regt. 2 Jan. 1915; took part in the heavy fighting for Hill 60, near Ypres, and was killed in action there, 18 April, 1915; unm. He had been called upon to undertake the Senior Captain’s duty and he volunteered for the post of danger with the machine-guns on Hill 60, near Ypres. He was on the Hill all through the awful night of Saturday 17, when so many fell—with two officers under him, and in the early morning, just as day was breaking, their company was relieved. They had left the ridge of the hill, when with his usual devotion to duty he suddenly said to his fellow officer: “You go on—I’ll follow in a minute,” and turned back again, explaining that he wanted to make sure all was right for the relief company just coming to take their place. So he went back—and in doing this, lost his own life, for he was shot dead. He was buried in the little military cemetery near Ypres. Major Dunlop, officer in command of the Battn., wrote: “I found your son of great assistance to me, as he was not only devoid of fear, but was an exceptionally keen officer, and, I am sure, would have made a great name for himself had he survived. Anyone who knew him could not help admiring him.” An officer, working with Lieut. Walker when he was killed, wrote: “on all sides I heard mention of his bravery. He stood on the top of the hill, directing operations, and was actually handling the machine-gun at the time he was shot in the throat, and died instantly. He had volunteered for the post of danger.” Lieut. Walker was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915. He was in the O.T.C. at both Sherborne and Cambridge, and after his two years of teaching, spent a year in promoting Boy Scout work, and was organising secretary to the Great Rally at Birmingham in 1913.

WALKER, EDWARD HENRY, A.B., 163583, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WALKER, HENRY CLEMENT, Stoker, Petty Officer, 308726, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALKER, JAMES, Private, No. 1780, 1/9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F); b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 23 Aug. 1891; educ. Gateshead-on-Tyne; enlisted in the Durham L.I., 21 April, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and was killed in action on the outskirts of Ypres, 3 May, 1915. Buried in the Chateau grounds, west of Brielin, on the Poperinghe Road. He m. at the Roman Catholic Church, Dunston, 26 Dec. 1912, Mary (189, Rose Street, Gateshead), dau. of John Quinn, and had a child.

WALKER, JOHN JAMES, Corpl., No. 51512. R.F.A.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died from wounds received in action, 25 Aug. 1914.

WALKER, JAMES THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6224), 203795, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALKER, ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7858), 292549, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALKER, SAMUEL REID, Private, No. 1876, A Coy. 1/9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of John Walker, of Wentworth, Newmarket Road, Norwich, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Samuel Reid, of St. George’s, Norwich; b. Norwich, 13 Feb. 1893; educ. Belle Vue and King Edward VI Middle School, Norwich; apprenticed to the Drapery Trade, first at Mr. Moll’s, Norwich, then to Messrs. Bryant and Bryant, St. Ives, Hunts, and lastly to Messrs. Jenners, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined 1/9th Royal Scots (A Coy.), 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 8 Hospital, Bailleul, 27 April following, of wounds received four days previously during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried Bailleul Cemetery; unm. Corpl. W. M. Clarke wrote: “I thought it would perhaps comfort you to know how much he was appreciated by his comrades, and how great a shock his death was to them. His bright face and willingness made him a valued man in my section and won him everybody’s affection. Our only consolation, and I hope it may be yours also, is that he died like a man fighting for the Old Country.”

WALKER, THOMAS, Private, No. 2395, 1/7th Battn. The Black Watch (T.F.), s. of Alexander Middleton Walker, of Middleton Place, Crossgates, co. Fife, Miner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Thomas Young, of Leven; b. Fordell, Dalgetty, co. Fife, 13 Feb. 1884; educ. Crossgates Public School; served as a grocer in Dunfermline Co-operative Society for nearly five years, then enlisted in the Royal Scots, 2 Jan. 1902; obtained his discharge by purchase, 11 July following, and was employed in the mines; re-enlisted in the Black Watch after the outbreak of war, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; unm. Buried there. His Captain wrote: “We were being subjected to a terrible bombardment during an attack on the Germans, and Tom along with L.-Corpl. Somerville were sitting in a dug-out sheltering from the fire, when a high explosive shell hit it, smashing in the roof. Both were killed immediately, and without suffering any pain. All the men exhibited great courage during the day and none more than your son, who was always a worker, doing his share and always willing to help others.”

WALKER, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SMAIL, Major, 46th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Major-Gen. Alexander Walker, C.S.I., R.A., Director-General of Ordnance in India, 1890–97, by his wife, Anne Yewdale Lambert, dau. of Commander William Archibald Smail, R.N.; b. Dum-Dum, India, 31 Oct. 1874; educ. Dulwich College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 10 Oct. 1894; was attd. to the 1st Somerset L.I. for his first year; entered the Indian S.C. 10 Jan. 1896, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1897; Capt. 10 Oct. 1903, and Major 10 Oct. 1912; served with the 45th Sikhs and then with the 40th Pathans, and was posted to the 46th Punjabis on their formation; took part in the operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the Defence of Malakand, action at Landakai, and operations in Bajaur (medal with two clasps), and in the Tirah Expedition 1897–8 (clasp), and was afterwards employed with the King’s African Rifles, 25 Nov. 1903 to 10 May, 1906. After the outbreak of the European War, he was sent in Jan. 1915, with a double coy. to British East Africa and attd. to the 130th Baluchis (King George’s Own). He was commanding a section of the outpost line with headquarters at Mzima on the Tsava River. While visiting sentry groups with an escort of seven men on 12 April, he came on the spoor of a large party of Germans. He followed this up for some way in order to locate the enemy. In returning he was ambuscaded by a smaller party of Germans who were following the main force, and he and two men were shot. He was buried on the banks of the Tsava River—the grave was marked by a cairn of stones; the two men who fell with him are buried by his side. A brother officer wrote: “I knew him for a fearless man. He was with my regt. in the Tirah Expedition, 1897—I have never met a braver soldier”; and another: “His escort, Dogras and Gurkhas, five of whom managed to get away, all bear great testimony to his fearlessness and gallantry. He gave the orders with his last breath for his men to scatter; such is necessary in the bush. He is a great loss to us and to our country—we can ill spare such men.” He m. at Peshawar, N.W.P., 30 April, 1913, Marion Balfour, yst. dau. of the Rev. Frederick William Crick, M.A., Rector of Litton Cheney, Dorset, and had a dau., Anne Margaret, b. 21 Jan. 1914.

BANES-WALKER, FREDERICK CECIL, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., eldest s. of Harry Banes-Walker, of Verriers, North Petherton, Somerset, B.A., C.C., Director of Brewery Companies, by his wife, Mary Alexandra, dau. of Frederick S. Barker; b. Northgate House, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 19 June, 1888; educ. Mr. Coplestone’s, Exmouth, Devon, and Tunbridge School, and was gaining a business experience at the Ashton Gate Brewery. He enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, but was offered a commission in the Devons a few weeks later, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Reserve Battn. of that Regt. 7 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attd. to the 2nd Battn. (23rd Brigade, 8th Division), of which he became a Machine-Gun Officer. He went to France, 15 March, 1915; was promoted Lieut., and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 May, 1915; unm. Buried in a cemetery on the Rue Petillon, about 3,500 yards south of Fleurbaix. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was killed in action early Sunday morning, 9 May, as we were advancing under heavy cross-firing. He was in charge of our machine-gun section, and had done extremely well. He was very popular with all ranks, and will be greatly missed.” Lieut. Banes-Walker was well-known in sporting circles being a fine rider to hounds. He played cricket for Somerset, and hockey for Gloucestershire.

GORDON-WALKER, CHARLES NIGEL, Lieut. and Adjutant, 10th (Service) Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 8th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Frederick Alexander Walker, of Gravesend, Kent, by his wife, Grace Marion (23, Holbein House, Sloane Square, London, S.W.), dau. of the late David Alexander Gordon, of Culveman and Greenlaw, co. Kirkcudbright, and of Hong Kong; b. Milton-next-Gravesend, co. Kent, 3 July, 1889; educ. Westminster School; was in the firm of Messrs. Gilman & Co., Merchants of Hong Kong, and 18, St. Swithin’s Lane, London, E.C., and was Corpl. in the Scouts Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th South Staffords, 21 Nov. 1914, and appointed Adjutant to the battn. 21 Nov. 1914; attd. to 8th Manchester (T.F.), May, 1915; left for the Dardanelles from Plymouth, 15 May, and was killed in action in Gallipoli 7 Aug. following; unm.

WALL, JOHN THOMAS, Private, No. 5743, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 30 Sept. 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Poperinghe, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried Poperinghe New Cemetery.

WALLACE, ANDREW, Capt., 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), eldest s. of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith, of Newmilns, Ayrshire, Manufacturer; b. Prestonpans, 3 Feb. 1875; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University, where he was Gold Medallist in Anatomy, and completed his medical course when he was only twenty. After being assistant to Dr. Nuttall of Leicester for three years, he went as Ship’s Doctor to China and Japan on the S.S. Glen Avon, which was wrecked off Hong Kong on her homeward voyage; and then practised for fifteen years in Coldstream, where he took a prominent part in Ambulance Association Work, and in the Territorials. He joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. K.O.S.B. (afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Scottish Borderers) in 1902 and became Lieut. 8 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 11 April, 1906; and volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war. He left for the Dardanelles on 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Krithia, Gallipoli, 12 July following; unm. Of his nine brothers, Capt. W. E. Wallace is in France with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, Capt. H. S. Wallace is in Egypt with the Notts and Derby Mounted Field Ambulance Bde., and Cadet R. H. Wallace presently training with University Corps, Bristol. His second youngest brother, Harold S. Wallace, with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, was killed in France, 8 April, 1915, at Picantin, near Laventie.

WALLACE, HAROLD SYDNEY, Private, No. 893, 8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 9th s. of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, and a younger brother of Capt. Andrew Wallace (see preceding notice), by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith; b. Prestonpans, 29 Nov. 1892; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and Skerry’s College; was an Officer of Customs and Excise; joined the 8th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1912; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Picantin, near Laventie, 8 April, 1915; unm. Buried Rue Tilleloy, Laventie.

WALLACE, HENRY ATHOLL CHARLES, Capt., 10th Battn. 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Henry Wallace, of Trench Hall, co. Durham, J.P., for many years Agent to the Earl of Ravensworth; by his wife, Jessie (139, Ware Road, Hertford), dau. of Charles Ellis, of New York, U.S.A.; b. Trench Hall, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1879; educ. Uppingham College; served in the South African War with the Northumberland Imperial Yeomanry, 1900–1901 (Queen’s medal with two clasps); emigrated to Canada in 1902, and after farming in Manitoba for a short time, turned his attention to real estate; joined the 106th Winnipeg L.I. in Winnipeg, Canada; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and was appointed Capt. 10th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France early in Feb. and after serving in the trenches for two months, was killed in action at Langemarck, 22 April, 1915. He always took a keen interest in military matters, and belonged in Canada to the Veterans’ Brigade, composed of men who had served their country in any part of the world. He m. at St. Mary’s, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1903, Winifred (194, Hill Street, Norwood Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), dau. of the late Thomas Archer, of the Dunston Engine Works, Dunston-on-Tyne, a well-known engineer and inventor, and had two children: Henry Archer Harold, b. 3 April, 1906; and Dorothy Laura, b. 15 March, 1909.

WALLACE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4924), S.S. 104347, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALLACE, JOHN, Private, No. S./7097, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 10 Feb. 1915.

WALLACE, JOHN ROGER (ION), 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of Roger William Wallace, of 36, Campden Hill Gardens, Kensington, K.C., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Thornton; b. Kensington, 25 June, 1895; educ. at School House, Rugby, and Oriel College, Oxford; joined the Artists’ Rifles as a Private when war began, and went to France with them, 26 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission, 15 Dec. 1914, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. The same month he was invalided home after an attack of pleurisy caught in the trenches, and early this year (1915), after taking out a draft of men from Ayr, was transferred to the 1st Battn. of his regt. He was killed in action, near Ypres, 22 April, 1915, and buried in the Military Cemetery, Dickebusch, Belgium; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “His pluck and unselfishness will always be remembered in the Scots Fusiliers. His one idea was that the men wounded at the same time should be cared for first. Both in his life and death he was a splendid example.”

WALLACE, JOSEPH, Leading Stoker, 282825, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALLACE, THOMAS, Acting Corpl., No. 7349, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Ypres, 12 May, 1915.

WALLACE, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Private, No. 7865, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 Dec. 1914.

BURGOYNE-WALLACE, DOUGLAS BURGOYNE, Lieut., 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajput L.I., Indian Army, elder s. of Frederick Burgoyne Burgoyne-Wallace, of Beechmont, Cheltenham, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Robert Watson, of Victoria Park, co. Ayr, and gdson. of the late Gen. Hill Wallace, C.B., R.H.A., by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Capt. Frederick Burgoyne, R.N. (who was present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent); b. Edinburgh, 12 June, 1893; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list for the Indian Army, 12 Aug. 1912. He was attached to the 2nd Battn. Norfolk Regt. at Belgaum for a year, and was posted to the 7th Rajputs 2 Nov. 1913, being promoted Lieut. Nov. 1914. He left India with his regt. for the Persian Gulf in the same month and was reported as missing after the heavy fighting at Ahwaz, 2 March, 1915. He was unm. Whilst at Cheltenham College he gained the Gold Medal in 1910 presented by the Republique Francaise Ministère de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux Arts for French competed for by all the Public Schools.

WALLARD, WALTER, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1817), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALLER, GEORGE, Private, No. 3082, C Coy., 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Waller, of Uckfield Road, Ringmer, Lewes, Stockman to Mr. John Porter, Park Farm, Ringmer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Henry Godcher, of Streat; b. Curd’s Farm, Barcombe, co. Sussex, 25 Nov. 1895; educ. Ringmer Council School, near Lewes; was Groom and Gardener to Mr. Moore Wellingham, Ringmer; enlisted 25 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 Feb., and was killed in action at Richebourg, 9 May, 1915; unm.

WALLER, HORACE EDMUND, Private, No. 1530, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, yr. s. of John Edward Hopkins Waller, of Rockvale, co. Tipperary, 172, Cromwell Road, London, S.W., and The Nook, Westgate-on-Sea, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Annette Elizabeth, dau. of Adolphe Naudé, and grandson of the late John Francis Waller, of Finoe House, co. Tipperary, LL.D., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, writer and poet; b. in London, 16 April, 1891; educ. the Towers, Wellington College, and Tonbridge School (Scholar), and on leaving there entered the Engineering Section of the University of London at King’s College, and was one of the earliest members of the O.T.C. In 1910 he went to Canada where he engaged in engineering, the principal work with which he was connected being the Hydro Electric installation of the Algoma Central Railway at Steep Hill Falls, Ontario, and the government survey of Strathcona Park, Vancouver Island, B.C. On the declaration of war he joined the 1st Contingent of Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. as a private, and after training in Canada, on Salisbury Plain, and at Winchester, left Southampton for France with his regt. to join the Expeditionary Force on Sunday, 20 Dec. 1914. Owing to his intimate knowledge of French and his experience as an engineer, he was detailed to act as interpreter and guide. He was frequently in the trenches, and although as a result of the severe conditions prevailing he developed dysentery, he would not be persuaded to rest. On 4 Feb. however, he was obliged to enter hospital at Boeschèpe, and he died there, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried in the churchyard at Boeschèpe with full military honours. Lieut. Crubbe wrote: “I must tell you as one of his company officers how great a loss to No. 4 he is. He was always an excellent soldier, and seemed to thoroughly realise how his superior education and position necessitated his being a good example, and in this he never failed. Since we have been actually fighting he was of great service as a company guide, and invariably showed the greatest courage and devotion to duty”; and Sergt. Phillips: “Everybody in No. 4 Coy. and anybody in other companies who knew him join you in mourning the loss of one of the best little fellows that ever lived, and one whom I am very proud to have called friend. He was the most popular man in the company.”

WALLER, JAMES, A.B., J. 8260, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WALLER, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, No. 2467, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Charles Waller, of 121–123, Edgware Road, London, W., Master Tailor (died 2 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Alice Easter (123, Edgware Road, London, W.), dau. of James Waller, of Old Catton, Norwich; b. New Cross, London, 14 June, 1896; educ. Regent Street Polytechnic; was a student at Selfridges; enlisted in Aug 1914 on the outbreak of war; left for France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action, 7 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery on the Rue Petillon, near Neuve Chapelle. Lieut. A. G. Groser wrote: “He was a universal favourite among the non-commissioned officers and men of No. 3 Platoon. ‘Best man in my section,’ his sergeant used to say to me. Among the men all spoke well of ‘Nobby,’ as they used to call him.... On the night of May 7, your son was in the party of 19 under myself which was to occupy an advanced trench 70 yards in front of the trenches, and within 70 yards of the German lines. We occupied this advanced trench at 8.30 p.m., and barely had the sentries been posted, when a party of over 24 Germans, bent on slaughter, appeared on all sides and attempted to rush this trench. They had crawled up under cover of darkness, then jumping up they fired at us and then rushed into close quarters. After a hand-to-hand fight lasting a few minutes, they were beaten off with the loss of seven killed and several wounded. But four of the platoon lay on the ground wounded, and three more had slight wounds. Your son with five others under Sergt. Hocking (who has since died of wounds) stood up and fought like the gentleman he was against fully 15 of the Germans. Facing the enemy who appeared in front, he was shot in the back by one of those who sprang up from the rear. Though four were badly wounded they went on fighting till they drove the Germans off, which undoubtedly went a long way to saving the position. He behaved like a gentleman and a hero, as I ever thought he would should such circumstances arise. He was conscious the whole time he was waiting for a stretcher, and I could tell from his face that he was in great pain. I talked to him and gave him water, and he answered back though very feebly. Then the stretcher came and he was carried to the billets right behind the trenches. Not a murmur or cry of pain came from him while lying in the trench in awful agony, because he was not half a hero but one throughout;” and Sergt. G. W. Scott, writing “at the unanimous request of the N.C.Os. and men of the Platoon” to “record the great affection which every man in this platoon had towards him, and the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him, officers and men alike,” added: “About 9 o’clock p.m. on Friday, May 7, just as the day party was being relieved, the Germans rushed the sap. Our boys were absolutely taken by surprise, but rose to the occasion and succeeded in driving the Germans off, but not before your son was shot through the back and several others wounded. Poor ‘Nobby’ lived for a few hours and remained cheerful and brave to the end. His death actually occurred about 1 o’clock a.m. whilst he was being conveyed to the dressing-station.”

WALLIS, FREDERICK, Private, No. 6251, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Frederick Wallis, of 55, Morecambe Street, Walworth; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

WALLIS, HERBERT FRANCIS, No. G. 3330, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 27 April, 1915.

WALMESLEY, RICHARD, Lieut., attd. 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only s. of John Walmesley, of Lucknam, co. Wilts, and the Hall of Ince, co. Lancaster; b. London, W., 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd (Reserve Battn.) Yorkshire Regt. 13 Aug. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1912; was posted on the outbreak of war to the 2nd Battn.; went to France early in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action about the 21st of the same month, near Ypres. He was shot through the head, death being instantaneous and was the first of his regt. to fall. Lieut. Walmesley is described as a thorough soldier whom his men would have followed anywhere. He was also a keen sportsman and a well-known and fearless rider to hounds. He was Master of the Cambridge Harriers, 1912–13, and hunted with the Quorn, the Belvoir, and the Cottesmore, during the winter of 1913–14.

WALSH, ARCHIBALD, Private, No. 3796, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 28 Feb. 1901; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); obtained his discharge, 14 Feb. 1903; re-enlisted. 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. following, and was reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov., and is now assumed to have been killed in action between those dates; m.

WALSH, GEOFFREY PENNELL, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), elder s. of the late James Joseph Walsh, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, R.N. (who was lost on H.M.S. Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), by his wife, Eveline Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell; b. Sheerness, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Eversley School, Southwold; St. Paul’s and Pembroke College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Sherwood Foresters, 15 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1915; went to France, 16 May, 1915; was attd. to 2nd Battn. and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Though he had only been with us a few weeks, he was very popular with both officers and men, and he is a great loss to the service;” and his tutor from Pembroke College, Oxford, wrote: “He only gave us pleasure. From the first he took his full share of college life, his energies mostly given to the river. He leaves behind him a memory upon which it is a pleasure to dwell.”

WALSH, JAMES, Petty Officer (N.S.), 205302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALSH, JAMES, Acting Corpl., No. 12/1822, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, was reported missing after the fighting on 8 Aug. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Good Hope, yst. s. of the late Patrick James Walsh; b. Wexford, 29 Sept. 1863; educ. St. Peter’s College, Wexford, and the Royal University of Ireland; graduated. M.B. 1885, and was appointed Surgeon, Royal Navy, 20 Aug. of the same year; promoted Staff Surgeon, 20 Aug. 1897, and Fleet Surgeon, 20 Aug. 1901, and was lost in the sinking of H.M.S. Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Sheerness, Kent, 21 Jan. 1891, Eveline Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell, and had two sons: Geoffrey Pennell, Lieutenant 3rd Sherwood Foresters, b. 28 Oct. 1892, killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915; and Raymond Neville, b. 10 July, 1906.

WALSH, JOSEPH, Private, No. 5846, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Thomas Walsh, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of John Tyrrell, of Bolton; b. Earlestown, co. Lancashire, 3 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Patrick’s School, Bolton; enlisted 19 Nov. 1904; was called up from the Reserve on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914. He was reported missing, 27 Oct. 1914, and is supposed to have been killed in action on that date. He m. at Nelson, 6 April, 1912, Florence Ellen (8, Eastbank Street, Barrowford, Nelson, Lancs.), dau. of Henry Edwards, of Madeley Salop, and had a dau. Norah, b. 19 March, 1913.

WALSH, PATRICK, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 1741, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CORMAC-WALSHE, EDWARD JOSEPH, Lieut., 2nd Battn Prince of Wales’) The Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th s. of Edward Cormac-Walshe, of Castle Hill, Crossmolina, co. Mayo, D.L., by his wife, Annita, dau. of Henry Hodgens, of Beaufort, co. Dublin; b. Bath, 6 Feb. 1892; educ. Stoneyhurst and Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1912), and obtained a University commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Leinsters, 19 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 7 May, 1913; went to France with his regt, which formed part of the 6th Division, 22 Sept. 1914, and died in No. 13 Base Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914, from wounds received in action on 20 Oct.; unm. The 6th Division was holding the Radinghem-La Vallée-Emnetières-Copingham-Premesques Railway Line, 300 yards east of Halte, and according to information received from a brother officer at Premesques, Lieut. Walshe volunteered to go with a despatch some distance, and when returning with the report to his superior officer (Capt. Maffett, who had meanwhile been killed) found himself under severe machine-gun fire, and sheltered behind a hay stack, which was 300 yards from his trench. After half an hour he emerged running head down, but received a mortal scalp wound. His Colour-Sergeant ran out and fetched him in, and after 18 hours in the trench he was removed to the dressing station. His Colonel wrote: “During the attack on Premesques on the 18 Oct. he led his platoon in a gallant and skilful manner, always the first up to show his men the way. During that night and following night, he worked hard getting his men entrenched. When we were counter-attacking on the morning of the 20th, he was wounded when apparently bringing a report to his Company Commander, Capt. Maffett, who had just been killed. Your son was a gallant officer, very popular with all ranks. We all deplore his loss.” At Stoneyhurst he was in the football fifteen and cricket eleven, and was for a short time before leaving Capt. of the Officer’s Cadet Corps.

WALTER, ARGYLE FRANCIS BRADFORD, Private, No. 2795, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest s. of the late Francis Edward Walter, of Hornsey, N., by his wife, Ellen Annie (65, Middle Lane, Crouch End, Hornsey, N.): b. Holloway, N., 9 March, 1893; educ. L.C.C. School, Duncombe Road, Holloway; was a Clerk in the Scottish Provident Association Institution, Lombard Street, E.C.; volunteered and enlisted in the Kensingtons on the outbreak of war; went with his battn. to France, 28 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles on Sunday morning, 9 May, 1915; unm. A comrade said that on Sunday morning the 13th were ordered to capture certain German trenches—three successive lines of them—and they carried out their orders with great gallantry and success. Between the second and third lines was an open field, across which the battn. had to rush. Private Walter was among those who succeeded in reaching the third trench unhurt. It was then discovered that the red flag which they carried with them to indicate to the British Artillery behind them the point they had reached in their advance, had been left behind inadvertently at the second line of trenches. The officer in command called for volunteers to return and fetch it. Before he had finished Private Walter was out of the trench racing back across the open field under heavy fire from the enemy. He was about five yards from the flag when he fell. So far as could be judged he was killed instantaneously, as he was never seen to move again.

WALTER, CHARLES RICHARD, Corpl., No. 1654, 4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Walter; b. Haggerston; educ. Shap Street School there; joined the Royal Fusiliers in May 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914: served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died in Boulogne Hospital, 3 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm. Buried at Boulogne.

WALTER, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 15801, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914

WALTERS, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17428, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WALTERS, HENRY JAMES, C.P.O (N.S.), 179888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WALTERS, VIVIAN ARTHUR WALKER, Leading Signalman, 228510, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WALTHAM, WILLIAM ERNEST, Private, No. 6423, 2nd Battn Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Hamlin Waltham, of 3, Harold Street, Selby, by his wife, Ellen Eliza; b. Hull, 7 June, 1888; educ. Buckingham Street Board School there; was a Boilermaker; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 17 Nov. 1905; served three years with the Colours; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 4 Field Ambulance, 9 Nov. following, of wounds received at the First Battle of Ypres that day. He was buried in the N.W. corner of the field, east of Château, 1½ miles west of Ypres, on the Vlamertinghe Road. He m. at the Congregational Church, Selby, 1911, Harriett (Staynor House, Denison Road, Selby, co. Yorks), 3rd dau. of William Cass, and had a son, William Ernest, b. 31 Jan. 1912.

WALTHO, THOMAS JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5537), S.S. 100433, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALTON, GEORGE HENRY, Sergt., R.M.A. (R.F.R., 0696), R.M.A. 4367, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WALTON, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8670, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WALTON, RICHARD CRAWHALL, Lieut., 1st Battn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army; elder s. of Richard Walton, of 5, Croxteth Grove, Liverpool, Secretary in Liverpool Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool, and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, by his wife, Judith, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Clifton, Bristol, 1 March, 1886; educ. Liverpool College, and passed into Sandhurst in 1905, being third on the list in that half-year’s examinations. A year later he passed out second in order of merit, with honours, and was placed first of the Cadets for the Indian Army, winning the coveted Norman medal, then presented for the first time. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 29 Aug. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 29 Nov. 1908; served his first year with the 1st Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt.; was posted to the 9th Gurkhas, 12 Nov. 1907; appointed Double Company Officer, 17 Nov. 1907, and Qr.-Mr. 18 Jan. 1914; left India with the Expeditionary Force for France on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, during the first Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Walton was an all-round sportsman, and when in garrison at Chitral engaged in big game shooting, fine specimens of markhor, oorial, tahr, black and red bear, deer and leopard, being among his trophies. He was also an expert horseman and polo player, and was considered one of the best judges of ponies on his station. He rode Mr. Lee’s Ringette, the winner of the Murree Cup at the Gharial Races in 1907.

WAND, THOMAS EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R), Ch./8521, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WANDBY, WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5312), S.S. 42, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WANDS, ANDREW EASTON, L.-Corpl., No. 7689, 8th Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), attd. 1/7th Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late James Wands, of 65, Glasgow Road, Wishaw, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Easton; b. Wishaw, co. Lanark, 18 Aug. 1893; educ. Berryhill School there; was Craneman G.I.S.W., Wishaw; joined the 8th Highland L.I., 1908, and served five years, rejoining, 15 Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war; was attached to the 1/7th Royal Scots, and left with them for the Dardanelles 22 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the capture of the Sagir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, following; unm.

WARBURTON, JOHN ALFRED, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., s. of the late Joseph Warburton, Cooper, by his wife, Emma (117, Walter Street, Blackburn); b. Blackburn, 10 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Matthew’s School there; enlisted 18 March, 1901; served through the South African War, 1901–02 (Queen’s medal), after which he proceeded with his regt. to India, but later returned to South Africa, where he was stationed until the outbreak of the European War; went to France 2 Nov., came through the action at Neuve Chapelle safely, but was killed the following day, 15 March, 1915, while trying to locate a German sniper; unm. While in India he scored many successes in regimental competitions.

EGERTON-WARBURTON, PIERS (PETER), Private, No. 903, 10th Light Horse (Western Australian) Regt., Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of the late Rowland Egerton-Warburton, by his wife, Mary (Stonyhurst, Williams River, Western Australia), dau. of John M. Kail, and grandson of the late George Edward Egerton-Warburton, of St. Werburgh’s, Albany, Western Australia, sometime 51st Regt [5th s. of the Rev. Rowland Egerton-Warburton. of Warburton and Arley, co. Chester]; b. Perth, Western Australia, 13 July, 1892; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in May, and died in No. 1 General Hospital, Alexandria, 19 Aug. following, of wounds received on the 9th in the great attempt to storm the Turkish positions, when the 8th and 10th Light Horse were almost annihilated; unm.

WARD, ARTHUR, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 6330, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WARD, ARTHUR PERCY, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 3850), 196305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARD, ARTHUR RENOLD, Private, No. 1196, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late (—) Ward, by his wife, Eliza (126, Commercial Road, Camberwell, S.E.); b. Walworth, S.E., 3 Sept. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Street Board School there; joined the 2nd London Regt. about Aug. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. and died 4 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

WARD, BASIL MIGNOT, Capt., 1st Battn. Essex Regt., yr. s. of Arthur John Hanslip Ward. V.D., D.L., Town Clerk of Harwich, and Col. 1st Suffolk and Harwich R.G.A. Vol. (which he raised and commanded 1899–1906), by his wife, Eleanor Katherine Mignot, only dau. of John Brown, of Altwood, Maidenhead; b. Dovercourt, co. Essex, 20 Feb. 1888; educ. The Tower School, Dovercourt; Felsted School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Essex Regt., 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut., 25 Sept. 1911, and Capt., 26 April, 1915; served in Burma, India, and Mauritius; and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried on the shore of Gallipoli, just above W. Beach. His Commanding Officer (who was himself killed a few days later) wrote: “He was such a good officer, and so much beloved by us all. It must indeed be terrible for you, but you have the consolation that he died fighting for his country, and no one could die a more noble death. He fell the first day we landed, but not before he had proved what a gallant fearless officer he was. In the Regt. we shall miss him dreadfully.” He was a Freemason, and a member of the Hanslip Ward Lodge, into which he was initiated by his father; he was also a member of the St. Nicholas Mark Lodge.

WARD, HENRY DE COURCY, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., 2nd s. of the late Commander Henry Purcell Ward, R.N., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Allan, of Springfield House, Havant, co. Hants, and grandson of Capt. Richard Ward, R.N.; b. Kingstown, co. Dublin, 4 July, 1862; educ. Vickerys, Southsea; entered the Navy 15 July, 1878, and became Paymaster in 1895 and Fleet Paymaster in Aug. 1903. He served on H.M. Ships Wolverine, Miranda and Rapid, Australian Station; H.M.S. Emerald, North American Station; H.M.S. Firebrand, China Station; and H.M.S. Triumph and Indomitable, Home Fleet; and was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy in Dec. 1913, being present on the latter at the action off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914. He was lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when the Cressy was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. A survivor said: “Ward managed to reach a life-buoy, which was supporting the Doctor and Chaplain. When he found he could hold on no longer without taxing the strength of the others (our Chaplain, the writer says, could not swim), he slipped off, telling the others to save themselves, and sank with a cheery good-bye to us all.” And the Chaplain wrote: “The courage of Ward, the calmness with which he faced death was typical of the bravery of the rest.” Capt. Ozanne, R.M.L.I., another of the survivors, wrote: “I hope someone has told his wife what a fine thing he did. Ward passed me swimming hard. He was splendid, letting go a life-buoy which he had hold of, as our Chaplain, who couldn’t swim, was on it, and so was the Doctor, who was looking after him. He apparently thought they would get on better without him. He is a great loss, he kept things going in a wonderful way.” Fleet Paymaster H. de C. Ward was selected as one of the Naval interpreters to escort the officers of the French Fleet during the Entente Cordiale festivities in Aug. 1906, and was also chosen when the Indomitable took the Prince of Wales (now King George V.) to Quebec for the Tercentenary Celebrations in July, 1908. He m. at Kilmaronaig Lodge, Connel, co. Argyle, 10 July, 1900, Emelie Chisholm, 2nd dau. of the late Staff Surgeon Richard McClymont, R.N., by his wife, Anne Constance (who m. 2ndly Archibald Argyll Lochnell Campbell, 13th, of Lochnell), dau. of Inspector General (of Asylums) John Francis Fitzgerald, of Glenlee Lodge, Cheltenham; s.p. His brothers, Paymaster-in-Chief Charles A. Ward, R.N., and Col. W. R. Ward, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, are on service.

WARD, HENRY, Private, No. 2010, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Durham; enlisted 20 Sept. 1898; served in South Africa, 15 April, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 22 Oct. 1914; m.

WARD, HERBERT ALFRED, Sergt., R.M.A., 5345, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WARD, JAMES, L.-Corpl., No. 8066, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 1st s. of Stephen Ward, of Westbury, Brackley, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Merry; b. Brackley, 20 May, 1886; educ. Brackley National School; joined 2nd Oxford and Bucks, L.I., 21 Oct. 1905; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried, Rue du Bois, near Richebourg l’Avoué.

WARD, JOHN EDWARD, Private, No. 68, H Coy., 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only child of John Edward Ward, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent, employee of the South-Eastern Railway, by his wife, Kate Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Warner, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent; b. Ashford, 15 July, 1891; educ. Grammar School there, and on leaving secured an appointment at the Folkestone Branch of Lloyd’s Bank. After three years there he was given a special appointment at the Southsea Branch; remaining there for 13 months, he was then transferred to the Westgate Branch and from there to the head office in Lombard Street. Two days after the declaration of war (7 Aug. 1914) he joined the London Rifle Brigade, left England with it on 2 Nov. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ploegsteert, Belgium, 9 Dec., 1914; unm. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Macfeogh, wrote that by his death he “had lost one of the best men of his Company.” Ward had for many years been studying organ and piano, was a prize winner Trinity College, was assistant organist at Ashford Parish Church, was also a gifted accompanist on the piano and in great request at concerts. Was a choir boy at Ashford Parish Church for some years, soloist for two years until his voice broke. Resting from singing for some years, he again started by studying voice production under Mr. Fletcher of Folkestone, and later on under Mr. Franklin Clive, of London, and he developed a baritone voice of exceptional quality and power, and was seen in many provincial productions, and was heard to much advantage in the production of “The Geisha” at Portsmouth Theatre Royal by the Portsmouth Orpheus Society. In this production he played “Reggie Fairfax,” the part originally played in London by Mr. C. Hadyn Coffin. His first appearance on the concert platform was at the age of three, when he sang a little solo in a children’s operetta, and at intervals he appeared for years in many operettas and at many concerts, until his departure for the Front. He was a fine cricketer, and still holds the record for the Ashford Grammar School Eleven against club cricketers (not school cricket), viz., 168 not out, which he scored against the Ashford Drapers Cricket Club for the Grammar School in 1913. Another notable feat in his cricket career was 59 in the morning, l.b.w. out, and 59 in the afternoon, l.b.w. out, against a very strong combination Great Chart Cricket Club in 1910. His last season of cricket he played on the London grounds for the Private Banks C.C. and also for the Droits C.C. and scored up to the time of his enlistment in Aug., 9 runs short of 1,000 runs. This would have been, had he kept playing, his best season. He did not make a century in 1914 but scored 95, 98, 90 and 84, thus getting near it on four occasions. He topped the averages in all clubs he played for at some time of his cricket career, and was looked upon as a fine sporting bat by all good judges of the game.

WARD, THOMAS LEONARD, Private, No. 1859, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late Henry Walter Ward, of 34, St. Paul’s Road, Camden Town, N., for many years an optician with Adam Hilger, Stanhope Street, N.W., by his wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth, dau. of William Bartlett; b. London, 28 March, 1890; educ. Camden Town National School and Ditcheat Council School; went to Australia, 28 Oct. 1911; bought property in Narrogin, and farmed for himself 633 acres at Corrogin, W.A.; joined the 11th Battn. Jan. 1914; sailed for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Alexandria, 10 Aug. following, of wounds received in action at Shell Green, Anzac, on or about 5 Aug. Buried in Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria, Grave No. 1240; unm. A comrade wrote: “Tom’s first thought was for his comrades; he even went so far as sharing his water allowance at a time when every drop was a luxury.” Another wrote: “His fearlessness was noticeable even among ‘our set.’ He died the death he chose—one of many heroes.”

WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1368), 194032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARDALE, CLARENCE, A.B. (R.F.R., C. 229), S.S. 1740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARDE, BRIAN EDMUND DOUGLAS, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Major Charles Aprilis Warde, late 7th Dragoon Guards and 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, and now 2nd in command of 15th Battn. R.F., by his wife Felicia, dau. of James Richard Alexander Douglas, of Treaty House, Hounslow, F.R.C.S.; b. Hounslow, 29 July, 1894; educ. at Bilton Grange, Rugby; and Lancing College, Shoreham, where he was second classic, and Captain of his house. He was intending to go to Ceylon as a planter, but on the day war was declared applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old battn., 15 Aug. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. following. After training at Dover and taking part in the defences of the fortress, he left for the Front with a draft of the 4th Battn. on 29 Dec. He served with that Battn. at Ypres, St. Eloi, and elsewhere in Flanders, until his death in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. That day he was the last officer of his company unhurt. He had helped to take three lines of the enemy’s trenches, had then fallen back to the 2nd line again, where his wounded Capt. saw him, quite calm and unconcerned, leading a handful of men down the trench. He jumped on the parapet to fire at and bomb a party of the enemy, when he fell shot through the head. An hour later he died, never having recovered consciousness, and was buried in the trench where he was shot; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He will be a great loss to us, he was always cheerful, was a very brave officer, and a real good leader of men.... He was sniped from the flank and killed dead.” Lieut. Warde was a splendid gameshot, and devoted to field sports and to nature generally. He possessed an excellent knowledge of French.

WARDEN, ERNEST, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24984 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WAREING, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6370, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WARLOW, THEODORE WILLIAM, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., elder s. of the Rev. George Edmund Warlow, M.A., Vicar of Ledsham, South Milford, Yorkshire, by his wife, Ellen Constance, dau. of Ferdinand Gozna Eiloart; b. St Anne’s Wycombe, Marsh, co. Bucks, 15 March, 1895; and was educ. at Doon House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Bradfield College, where he gained an Exhibition, was a Sergt. in the O.T.C. and obtained Certificate “A.” He left Bradfield, July, 1914, and was to have gone up to University College, Oxford, the following Oct., but on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th K.O.Y.L.I., 14 Aug. 1914, he was promoted Lieut. 25 Oct. following, went to France 21 May, 1915; and died at a stationary hospital, Boulogne, 28 July, 1915, of wounds received at Hooge on the 19th, while endeavouring to bring in a wounded Corpl. Buried at Boulogne; unm. Major E. H. Rigg wrote: “He was a good soldier, and his loss is deeply felt by all ranks,” and 2nd Lieut. R. G. Royle: “Being in the same company, I can bear personal witness to the great esteem his soldierly abilities and his remarkably sunny disposition have engendered amongst everybody.”

PICTON-WARLOW, WILFRED, Capt., 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., and Royal Flying Corps, 7th and yst. s. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, formerly Picton-Warlow, of Ewenny Priory, Bridgend, Glamorgan, late Indian Staff Corps, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, yst. dau. of Sir Grenville Temple, of Stowe, 10th Bart.; b. Laleston House, Bridgend, 6 April, 1884; educ. Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Welsh from the Guernsey Militia, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 28 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 7 June, 1913; attached Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps as Flying officer, 14 Aug. 1913; and promoted Flight Commander, 1 May, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and on 20 Dec. 1914 left St. Omer for Dover. He was seen flying over Calais that same day, but nothing more was heard of him, and he is believed to have been drowned while crossing the Channel; unm.

WARNE, JAMES FELIX, Rifleman, No. 1966, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Warne, Founder of the Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, and brother to Frederick Warne, editor of the Bristol Free Press; b. Old Kent Road, S.E., 5 Oct. 1886; educ. Cobourg Road Council School there; was a Clerk with Messrs. Foster, Porter & Co., Wood Street, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at Ypres, 1 April, 1915, while on observation duty; unm. Buried in a railway cutting near Hill 60. Capt. H. Flemming wrote: “He had done excellent work since he has been in my company.”

WARNER, CORNWALLIS JOHN, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd s. of Col. Sir Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet, C.B., M.P.; formerly Lieut.-Col. and Hon. Col. commanding the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I., Lord Lieutenant co. Suffolk, by his wife, Lady Leucha Diana, née Maude, 6th dau. of Cornwallis, 1st Earl de Montalt; b. Highams, Woodford Green, co. Essex, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; called to the Bar, 1910, and in Dec. of that year unsuccessfully contested Salisbury as a Liberal; joined the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I. as 2nd Lieut., 25 July, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1910; resigned May, 1914, but rejoined 26 Sept. following; went to France Dec. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot say how I miss your son. He did such excellent work last spring that if he had been spared at Richebourg, as far as I am concerned, he would have commanded a company here ever since. There are a thousand and one jobs I would have given him to do, he was such a very useful and reliable officer in so many ways.”

WARNER, FREDERICK, Private, No. 8649, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick Neville Warner, of Bentfield End, Stansted, co. Essex, Removal Packer, by his wife, Caroline Amelia, dau. of Henry Jarvis; b. Bethnal Green, London, 19 Jan. 1891; educ. London Council School; was a Cycle Fitter by trade; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 17 March, 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action 25 Oct. 1914; unm.

WARNER, WILLIAM CHARLES, A.B., 207043, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARNER, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4383), S.S. 103360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARREN, ARTHUR ERNEST, A.B., J. 8681, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARREN, ERNEST WILLIAM, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 5689), 214567 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARREN, MARK, L.-Corpl., G. 153, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 8 Feb. 1915.

WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM, A.B. (Coastguard), 204414 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WARREN, JAMES PERCY SOLTAU, Corpl., No. 511, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late William Warren, of Melbourne, Physician and Surgeon, by his wife, Charlotte Matilda (9, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, W.), dau of Henry Soltau, of Plymouth, Barrister; b. Melbourne, Australia, 23 May, 1883; educ. Scotch College there; was a Grazier; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; left Australia in Sept. 1914 for training in Egypt, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, during the landing there. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Carter, wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and we could ill afford to lose him. He was killed in our successful attempt to take the gun to the heights north of Gaba Tepe.” He m. at Kew, Melbourne, 19 Jan. 1909, Stella May (Bull Plains Station, Corowa, New South Wales), dau. of the late Edward James Rand, of Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, and had three children: Cecil, b. 10 Nov. 1909; and Audrey and May (twins), b. 9 Feb. 1912.

WARREN, JOHN ALEXANDER, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16653, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARREN, PATRICK, Private, No. 11041, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Killarney, co. Kerry; enlisted 14 Sept. 1914, aged 30; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 12 March, 1915. Buried at Le Touret and the spot marked by a cross.

WARREN, REGINALD DOUGLAS, Trooper, No. 2058, 1/1st Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, 1/1st South Eastern Mounted Brigade, s. of Edward George Warren, of 32, Lyndhurst Road, Hove, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Sharp, of Kilnsea, Yorkshire; b. Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Berkhampstead and Brighton Grammar Schools; was on the staff of Messrs. Lloyds Bank at Cliftonville, Margate; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to the Eastern front 25 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 7 Dec. following, being buried in Y Ravine there; unm. Major A. Leach Lewis wrote: “The lad died fighting and in the best of spirits. It was about 8.15 a.m. on Tuesday last that he was endeavouring to hit a periscope in the Turkish trench, when a sniper shot him from another part of the line. Your son had made himself extremely popular being always keen, cheerful and amusing. We have lost a good comrade, whose loss we all regret.”

WARREN, ROBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25515, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WARREN, SYDNEY CHAS., A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2789), 205935, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WARREN, WALTER, Sergt., No. 294, 1/28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Henry Warren, of Stevenage, co. Herts, by his wife, Clara, dau. of Thomas Phillips; b. Sloane Square, Chelsea, S.W., 11 July, 1877; educ. City of London School; was a member of the Baltic Exchange; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1900; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with the 1st Battn., 26 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 27 Nov. 1914; unm. On that morning the left half battalion had marched out to dig trenches in the artillery beaten zone, and shortly after commencing work came under fire of heavy German guns. Sergt. Warren and a comrade were killed by practically the first shot. His Colonel wrote: “The loss is ours as well as yours.... Your son was splendid and had the goodwill and affection of every man in the Corps”; and a fellow Sergt.: “There was no one but spoke well of him, and those of us Sergts. who were privileged to know him best feel the loss more than we can express. He was beloved by everyone, was always cheery, and always doing somebody a good turn.” Walter Warren.

WARRENDER, ANDREW ROBERTSON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6334), 286718, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WARTH, EDWIN FREDERICK, B.Sc., Sapper, No. 864, 1st Field Coy., R.N. Divisional Engineers, yst. s. of Hugo F. Warth, D.Sc., sometime Deputy Director Geological Survey of India; b. Mussoorie, U.P., India, 12 Aug. 1888; educ. privately, King Edward VI School, Birmingham (1899–1905); and Birmingham University (1905–10), where he graduated B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1st Class). On leaving there he was from 1910 to 1913 with Messrs. Nuthall & Co., engaged in the construction of a pipe line from Thirlmere for the Manchester Water Supply. In 1913 he went to the Grand Canary and was there at the outbreak of war, surveying for the New Las Palmas Water Supply. He had to undergo an operation before he could offer himself for military service and did not reach England till Nov. Having been a member of the Birmingham University O.T.C. (1905–10), he applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 March, 1915, but having in the interval enlisted as a Sapper in the R.N.D.E. and left for the Dardanelles, he was unable to take it up. He was wounded in action in the Gallipoli Peninsula 16 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Alexandria, 25 June following; unm. He was buried there.

WARTON, ROBERT INNYS BAKER, Sapper, No. 5233, 1st Field Coy., Canadian Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late Matthew Henry Warton, of London, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary (Portsdown, Darley Road, Eastbourne), dau. of the late Capt. John Fenwick; b. Loughton, co. Essex, 19 Feb. 1879; educ. Marlborough, and afterwards passed law examinations for Solicitor; went to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1903, there qualified as a Barrister and practised later at Atlin, going to Prince Rupert in 1910, where he went into partnership with Mr. W. E. Fisher, the firm employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co.; joined the Canadian Engineers immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at Vancouver; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the front in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915, while guarding a bridge over the Yser Canal, north of Ypres; unm.

WASSON, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7875), S.S. 103313, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WATERFIELD, FREDERICK CHARLES, Capt. 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, attd. 15th Sikhs, Indian Army; yst. s. of the late Major-General Henry Gordon Waterfleld, C.B., 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, by his wife, Emily Scott (Harbledown, Canterbury), dau. of the late Edmund Scott Barber; b. Dulwich, 22 Sept. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list, Indian Army, 22 Jan. 1898; was attached to the 1st Gordon Highlanders, 7 April, 1898; joined the 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, 7 April, 1899; promoted Lieut. 22 April, 1900, and Capt. 22 Jan. 1907; took part in the China Expedition, 1900 (medal); served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1908; took part in the operations in the Zakka Khel country, and those in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp); was in England on leave when war broke out, and served for three months with the 6th (Service) Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; was attached to the 15th Sikhs, then in France, early in Nov. 1914; was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March 1915; and again near Richebourg l’Avoué on 18 May following, and died in Bethune Hospital, 21 May, 1915. He was buried in the Town Cemetery there. A brother officer wrote: “I have known Charlie for fifteen years—we went to China together and were intimately associated in our work and our play, and linked by a friendship which distance and time could never affect. He was the very best type of English officer, as brave as a lion; of strong character, indomitable energy, and popular everywhere, without ever seeking popularity. A splendid soldier in every way.” In 1912–13 he accompanied the late Capt. Pritchard, 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry, in a journey of exploration beyond the frontier of Northern Burma. Capt. Pritchard was drowned while crossing one of the rivers and Capt. Waterfield brought the party back alone showing great courage and endurance under very difficult and dangerous conditions. He was awarded the MacGregor Memorial Silver Medal for his expedition, the honour coming a month after his death. Capt. Waterfield m. at Clayton, Sussex, 9 Jan. 1915, Ethel (Royston, Hassocks, Sussex), only dau. of the Rev. George Edward Roberts, of Royston, Hassocks, Sussex; s.p.

WATERING, WILLIAM ERNEST, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 6717, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Arthur Fergerson O’Connor Watering, by his wife, Harriet (2, Roynham Street, North Heigham, Norwich), dau. of the late Arthur Fergus O’Connor, Sergt., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots; b. Norwich, 17 April, 1881; educ. Heigham School there; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 17 April, 1899; became L.-Corpl. 19 Jan. 1901; Corpl. 20 June, 1902; Sergt. 29 Dec. 1906; Colour-Sergt. 1 Oct. 1913; and Coy. Sergt.-Major, 1 Oct. 1913; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medals), and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. to 15 Oct. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at Croix Barbée, and was buried at Vieille Chapelle, France. He m. at Newlands, Glasgow, 26 Dec. 1911, Elizabeth (died 15 Oct. 1913), dau. of John Burt, and had a son, William Burt Paterson, b. 15 Oct. 1913.

WATERMAN, LEONARD GORDON, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16648, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WATERMAN, ROBERT ALBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26355, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WATERS, ARTHUR DAVIS, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111853, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATERS, GEOFFREY ERNEST, Private, No. 245, 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The Loudon Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John Waters, of Wimbledon, co. Surrey, by his wife, Alice (St. Denis, Parkwood Road, Bournemouth), dau. of John Freeman; b. Wimbledon, 12 Jan. 1896; educ. Merton Park C.E. School, where he gained a scholarship for Rutlish Science School (Sept. 1907 to July, 1912), and on leaving there entered the Banking Department of Messrs. T. Cook & Son, of Ludgate Circus, Tourist Agents. After the outbreak of war he joined the L.R.B. 24 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 27 March, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 9 May, 1915, from wounds received in action; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Boulogne. From Merton Park School he gained a scholarship to Rutlish, obtaining a first place for all Surrey. He won the Surrey County Junior Scholarship (1907–11), the Senior ditto (1911–12), and the John James School Scholarship (1910–12), and passed the London University Junior School Exam, with honours, July, 1910; the same Senior Exam, July, 1911, and the same Exam, with additional subjects again in 1912.

WATERS, GEORGE ALEXANDER, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., s. of the late Eaton William Waters, of Tramore, co. Waterford, M.D., by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Edwards; b. Tramore, 28 Sept. 1862; educ. Tramore Boarding School and Waterford High School, and Queen’s (now University) College, Galway (1880–84, Exhibition in Mathematics), and having completed his medical studies in Dublin at the Carmichael College of Medicine, the Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwick Hospitals, and the Coombe Hospital, he graduated M.D., M.Ch., at the Royal University of Ireland in 1884. After a voyage to India in the Clan Matheson, he spent some 18 months in the Melrose plying between Cape Town and East African ports, and entered the Royal Navy, 17 Aug. 1887, being bracketed second place. He was promoted Staff Surgeon, 17 Aug. 1899, and Fleet Surgeon 1905, and served in the R.N. Hospital, Haslar, and H.M. ships Hearty (engaged in fishery protection in the North Sea, 1890); Boomerang (on Australian Station, 1891–94); Caledonia (Queensferry); Cockatrice (Danube, 1899); Psyche (West Indies); Illustrious (Channel, present at Brest fêtes, 1905), and Drake (accompanied Admiral of the Fleet Sir E. H. Seymour to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York, 1909), and was then appointed P.M.O. at Whale Island (H.M.S. Excellent), where he was when war broke out. He was appointed to H.M.S. Goliath (battleship, 12,950 tons, Capt. Thomas Shelford), Aug. 1914; early in Nov. she took part in the operations against the German light cruiser Königsberg, blocking her into the Rufigi River, where she was later destroyed; and on 1 Dec. with the light cruiser Fox, in the bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of German East Africa, when she successfully disabled the many vessels in the harbour. Ordered to the Dardanelles in April, 1915, she helped to cover the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and on 13 May, 1915, while engaged in protecting the right flank of the French Army, was struck by three torpedoes and sunk in two minutes. Only 166 survivors were picked up, Fleet Surgeon Waters being among those lost; unm.

WATERS, THOMAS ROBERT, Chief Armourer, 341363, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATERS, WILLIAM DENNE, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. and surviving child of William Denne Waters, of Clarence House, Walmer, co. Kent, by his wife, dau. of the late George William Gill, of Rochester; b. 1 Aug. 1892; educ. Sir Roger Manwood’s School, Sandwich, where he was in the O.T.C., and having passed the Entrance Examination for the Army in June 1914, was gazetted to a 2nd Lieutenancy 15 Aug. of the same year. He was sent to France in Jan. 1915, and attd. to the 1st Battn. of the same regt., being seriously wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915. An officer of his regt., who wrote regretting his death, in describing the circumstances said: “He was in my old Company, which was ordered to charge a breastwork, and he was up and off, leading his men as he always did, but the whole lot were practically mown down by maxims.” Lieut. Waters died of his wounds the same night, and was buried in the Cemetery at Estaires; unm.

WATERS, WILLIAM LESLIE, Lc.-Corpl., No. 10960, Machine-Gun Section, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Arthur Waters, of 25, Mill Hill Road, Acton, W., formerly of Herstmonceaux, co. Sussex, by his wife, Kate Emma, dau. of Ralph Joanes, of Brighton; b. Preston Park, Brighton, 23 Nov. 1896; educ. Stanford Road School there and Hugh Myddelton Higher Grade School, Clerkenwell; enlisted, 15 Aug. 1914; was promoted L.-Corpl. end of Nov. 1914; went to the Front, 17 March, 1915, and died of enteric fever while on active service, in No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Lillers, France, 7 July, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Ever since he came under my command he proved himself an excellent non-commissioned officer in every way and was generally liked by his own men and the whole Machine-Gun Section.”

WATKINS, CHARLES HENRY, Drummer, No. 8495, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of William Henry Watkins, Sapper, No. 200567, R.E. (now on active service), late 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards (served in the Egyptian Expedition, 1882), by his wife, Harriet Deborah, dau. of James Connor; b. Caterham, co. Surrey, 21 Dec. 1893; educ. Winslow and Aylesbury; enlisted in the Coldstreams Dec. 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force 15 Aug., and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 10 Nov. 1914, being shot through the head by a sniper while crossing from one trench to another, and was buried in a wood near Rentel, Belgium; unm.

WATKINS, CHARLES ROBERT, Private, No. 9986, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of Edwin Robert Watkins, of Sladmore, Priory Avenue, High Wycombe, Surveyor, Member of Auctioneers’ and Land Agents’ Institute, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of the late Walter Skull; b. High Wycombe, 19 Sept. 1891; educ. Royal Grammar School there (where he won a Major County Council Scholarship) and matriculated at London University with honours, subsequently becoming an Artist Designer for W. H. Smith & Sons, of Kingsway, Publishers. He joined the London Rifle Brigade the day after war was declared (5 Aug. 1914), went with it to France the first week in Nov., and was killed in action in the front trenches, outside Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, 3 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried on the side of the Armentières road, south of Ploegsteert Village. At the time of his death he had been recommended for a commission, and was shortly to have returned to take up his appointment. “A young man of great ability, considered by his employers to be a genius and with every prospect of a highly successful career.”

WATKINS, ILTYD EDWIN MAITLAND, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Maitland Watkins, of Castle Parade House, Usk, Monmouthshire, Solicitor; b. Usk, 25 March, 1890; educ. Downside School, near Bath, and King’s College, Cambridge; B.A. (Law Tripos) 1911, LL.B. June, 1911, and passed Solicitor’s Final Examination in June, 1914. He joined the 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut. 25 March, 1909, and was promoted Lieut. 8 Feb. 1912, and Capt. 15 July, 1914, and was Signal Officer, Welsh Territorial Division Signal Coy. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; went to France, 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 7 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. E. B. Cuthbertson, C.M.G., M.V.O., wrote: “He was killed in the morning of the 7th, just at the end of the German attack, and his death was instantaneous and painless. Of his qualities as a soldier and a gentleman I cannot speak too highly; cheerful, gallant and unselfish, he died as he would have chosen to die with his face to the enemy and in the middle of the men whom he loved and commanded so well. We buried him on the battlefield [at La Brique St. Jean, north of Ypres]. His loss is deeply deplored by all ranks.”

WATKINS, WILLIAM JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1636), 200436, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WATSON, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 16999, C Coy., 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Thomas Watson, by his wife, Esther; b. Strathaven, 10 June, 1886; educ. Ballgreen Public School; was a Tailor; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept. 1915. He m. 3 June, 1910, Annie (18, Ballgreen, Strathaven), dau. of Robert Orr, and had two children: Thomas, b. 5 May 1912; and Jeanie, b. 3 Aug. 1910.

WATSON, ALFRED JAMES, Gunner, R.M.A., 8439 (R.F.R., I.C. 46), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WATSON, CEDRIC GORDON, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Royal Berkshire Regt.; only s. of Gilbert Watson, of the End House, St. Andrews, Fife, by his wife, Eva, dau. of Henry Minchen Chase, I.C.S.; b. Kenilworth, co. Warwick, 30 Aug. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Berkshires, 25 Feb. 1914, was promoted Lieut. 5 Jan. 1915, and for a time attd. to the East Surrey Regt. but had rejoined his own regt. at the time of his death. He was killed in action while gallantly leading his platoon in a frontal attack under “terrible conditions” at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

WATSON, DAVID GALLOWAY, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of John Watson, of 19, West Mayfield, Edinburgh, Headmaster Broughton Higher Grade School and Junior Student Centre, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of David Galloway, of Edinburgh; b. West Calder, Midlothian, 18 Nov. 1889; educ. at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where he was dux, in a brilliant year, and at Edinburgh University, where he first studied with a view of entering the Church, but eventually turned aside to medicine. After graduating in 1913, he became House Surgeon to Mr. Alexis Thomson at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and later Senior House Surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, which he left to join the R.A.M.C. on the outbreak of war. He was gazetted temporary Lieut. 10 Aug. 1914, and went to the Front immediately thereafter. He was wounded by fragments of high explosive shell, 17 May, 1915, when bringing in wounded men from the trenches taken from the Germans at Festubert and died very suddenly at the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital at Le Touquet, Paris-Plage, 5 June, 1915; unm. He was the first officer buried in the British Cemetery at Etaples. Dr. Watson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1914, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field at Neufchatel and Festubert. At his university, as well as taking a uniformly high place as a student, he was well known in the Union, and as a President of the Dialectic Society, but even better as a prolific contributor to the University Journalism; he was Joint-Editor of The Gambolier when that light-hearted weekly was in the heyday of its first success, and he was for a year or two a member of the Editorial Committee of The Student, acting as Deputy-Editor (and frequently as Editor) in 1912–13. He used to devote much of his time (for a considerable period at least two evenings every week) to social work in the University Settlement, delighting especially in playing with the children and telling them stories. One of his most successful efforts, a popular exposition of Physical Methods in Therapeutics, is included in a volume published by Messrs. T.C. & E.C. Jack. Another little work entitled “Waiting Night Sketches” with a memoir and a Personal Impression was printed for private circulation at the Darien Press, Edinburgh, 1916.

WATSON, GEORGE JOSEPH, Leading Stoker, 298094, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WATSON, GEORGE WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8159), 293612, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATSON, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1978), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATSON, JOHN ROBERT, Seaman, R.N.R., 4751A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATSON, LOUIS TALBOT, Capt., 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., 3rd s. of Col. Richard Talbot Watson, of Honeybrook House, Franche, Kidderminster, V.D., J.P., and formerly O.C. 1st Vol. Battn. Worcestershire Regt., by his wife, Harriet Elizabeth, dau. of James Morton; b. Kidderminster, 7 March, 1881; educ. Clifton College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt. 9 March following, and promoted Lieut. 26 April, 1902 and Capt. 22 Jan. 1909; served in the South African War, 1901–2, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with five clasps). He then transferred to the 2nd Worcesters and served with this battn. in Africa, Ceylon and India, re-transferring to the 1st Battn. on 22 Jan. 1909. He left for France early in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. He m. at Arreton, Isle of Wight, 28 Sept. 1911, Margaret Amy, 2nd dau. of William Hartshorne Shorthose, of Stickworth Hall, Arreton, and had a dau., Diana Marion, b. 12 June, 1912.

WATSON, ROBERT, a Private, No. 2083, 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Watson, of Gilmerton Dairy, Midlothian, Dairyman, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Alexander Anderson, of Lanarkshire; b. Midlothian, 20 Jan. 1890; educ. Public School there, and was afterwards employed as an assistant ironmonger. He enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, while assisting a wounded comrade into safety, 28 June, 1915; unm.

WATSON, THOMAS, Private, No. 2333, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Watson (died March, 1916), Law Clerk, by his wife, Lillias Barrie (19, India Street, Edinburgh), dau. of William Walker; b. Edinburgh, 4 Dec. 1890; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College there; served his apprenticeship as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs. Carter Greig & Co., C.A., Edinburgh, and after being admitted a member of the C.A. Society received an appointment with Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co., Accountants, London. He joined the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1909, and served with it until he left Edinburgh, but on the outbreak of war returned, and rejoined his old regt. and volunteered for foreign service; went to the Dardanelles in May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 28 June following; unm.

WATSON, TOM, A.B., J. 7935, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WATSON, WILLIAM EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 27778, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATT, GEORGE HIMPHILL, A.B., 220630, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WATT, GEORGE MURTAGH, Private, No. 1422, 1/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Watt, of 11, The Grove, Crouch End, late Sergt. 2nd King’s Liverpool Regt., now a Customs Watcher, by his wife, Adelaide Nuletta, dau. of the late John Parsons, of Leek; b. Colchester Barracks, 15 April, 1895; educ. Crouch End Council School, and was an employee on the G.N.R.; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 12 Dec. 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 11 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 26 March, 1915; unm. Buried in the field adjoining Madame Surchelle Descamps’ farm at Sailly.

WATTS, ALFRED GEORGE BERTRAM, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23432, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Alfred Watts, of Farndish Road, Irchester, Wellingborough; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WATTS, FRANK WILLIAM, Private, No. 8854, 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Thomas Watts, of Langridge Farm, Nazeing, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Wright; b. Sherington, co. Bucks, 23 June, 1887; educ. Nazeing Schools; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. of the Bedfords, 7 Jan. 1907, served seven years with the Colours, then passed into the reserves, but, war breaking out a few months later, he was recalled and attd. to the 1st Battn. He went to France with the First Expeditionary Force, served in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914–15, and was shot by a sniper as he was going on duty at a listening post, 16 March, 1915; unm. The bullet entered just below the heart and he only lived 15 minutes. He was buried in the woods about 1½ miles from Ypres and about half a mile from the Chateau de Rosendale. A cross with his name marks the spot.

WATTS, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7920), S.S. 103428, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WATTS, JAMES ROBERT, Private, No. 2458, 1/2nd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Aldwyn Watts, of 26, Railway Terrace, Griffithstown, co. Monmouth, Haulier in the employ of the Panteg Urban District Council, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Thornton, of Gladestry, Herefordshire; b. Kings Pyon, co. Hereford, 4 Oct. 1896; educ. Griffithstown Council School; was employed at the Panteg Steel Works; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914; went to France in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Le Bizet, Belgium, 12 March, 1915; unm. Col. Cuthbertson, commanding the 2nd Monmouthshires, wrote: “Your son was killed on the 12th of this month, and a more gallant soldier never lived. He is buried in a soldiers’ cemetery not very far from the trenches where he met his death, and a careful record of his place of burial is being kept. A small cross with his name has been put up to his memory:” and one of his comrades wrote: “We all found him a jolly and good-hearted lad, and a very brave soldier. He feared nothing, but always thought of his duty to his country, of which he carried out to the last.”

WATTS, VICTOR KERRIDGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9418), 203441, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WAUGH, DAVID, Private, No. 9246, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); s. of Thomas Waugh, of 2, Salisbury Square, Edinburgh; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Voorstraat, 28 March, 1915.

WAUD, LIONEL DOUGLAS, Lieut., D Coy., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 2nd s. of Major Williams Henry Waud, late Royal Fusiliers, by his wife, Denise Caroline (sister of Baroness de la Bori de la Batut), dau. of the late Charles Maire, of Mantoche Haute Farm, France, and niece and adopted dau. of Pierre Francois, 1st Count Maire; b. Cranleigh Court, Guildford, 5 June, 1895; educ. at The Army School, Holyport (Maidenhead), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he passed out first and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Lancashires, 8 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914. He joined his regt. on the 19th and went with it to France on the 27th of that month; served through the subsequent fighting on the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action near Armentières, 8 Nov. 1914, being buried in Le Gheer Road, Ploegsteert Wood. Lieut. Waud was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct at Le Gheer. Writing to Major Waud, Capt. Melville Richards, of the 1st East Lancashires, said: “His only fault was he would take risks. He was too tall for the trenches, and wouldn’t trouble to stoop. He was very brave, and his action—which I remember well—of running along knocking down the rifles of his men, to make them fire low, was one of the finest things I have seen out here.” It happened that a Morning Post correspondent, some time after the incident referred to, was able to get a description of the circumstances from a German officer who was wounded on that occasion. It happened at Le Gheer. Respecting the assault made by the Guard on the English lines (wrote the correspondent) here is what I was told by one who took part in the action: “Towards evening we were ordered to advance. We marched forward without taking cover, confident enough, because not a shot came from the British trench. We thought it had been abandoned after the terrible bombardment to which it had been subjected all day long. Shouting ‘Hurrah,’ we rushed forward to seize it, but we had not gone more than 100 metres before our whole front is stricken down by a volley from a point much nearer than the trench we had been shelling and in addition to this terrible infantry fire the British quick-firing guns are brought into play, and simply mow our men down. We had been shelling an unoccupied trench, and had done no damage to the place where the enemy actually was hidden. Hence it is not surprising that our ‘assault’ should have proved to be—for us—a veritable massacre.” It was here that the late Lieut. Waud distinguished himself. When the mitrailleuse fire from the German attack began and there was a momentary loss of fire-control of his own company, Lieut. Waud, to regain control, sprang from the trenches, and ran in front of them, with the flat of his sword, struck down the men’s rifles, and so prevented the Germans finding out where the trenches really were. A brother officer wrote that his men “trusted him as a good and a brave leader,” adding: “He and I held an advanced trench before his end, and though he was younger than myself, I can say he was a great moral support to me. In conversation on the day of his death, he told me he was prepared to give the utmost for his Country, and that his one regret if that were required was that it would be a great shock to his parents.” He represented the Royal Military College in revolver shooting, for which he held the record score. He also represented Sandhurst in the bayonet competition at the Royal Military Tournament at Olympia, for which he obtained third prize.

WAUDLEY, HARRY, Driver, No. T/3/026409, Army Service Corps, s. of John Waudley, Ganger Platelayer on Hull and Barnsley Railway, by his wife, (—), dau. of Isaac Hornby, Roos, Holderness; b. Preston-in-Holderness, 26 June, 1891; educ. Anlaby National School, Hull; was a Farm Labourer with Mr. Richardson, Swanland; enlisted in the A.S.C., 12 Oct. 1914; went to Egypt in March, and died in No. 15 General Hospital, Alexandria, 30 June, 1915, of disease contracted while on active service; unm. Buried in Chatby Cemetery there (Grave No. 1125).

WAY, FRANCIS MAXWELL, Trooper, No. 7/772, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of George Edward Way, of Christchurch, New Zealand, F.P.A.N.Z., F.I.A.N.Z., by his wife, Emma Kate, dau. of the late Richard James Strachan Harman, one of the founders of, and for some years Deputy Superintendent of, Canterbury Province, and nephew of the Rev. John Pearce Way, D.D., late Headmaster of Rossall, and for two years stroke of the Oxford eight; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 Dec. 1895; educ. Christ’s College there, and then engaged in farming pursuits, first for eighteen months in the Back Blocks, Kaitieke, King Country, and then for eight months on Mount Torlesse Sheep Station, Canterbury, where he was when war broke out. He immediately enlisted, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, 15 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, June, 1915, and died on Anzac Beach, 8 Aug. 1915, of machine gun wounds received in action on Bauchop’s Ridge, Gallipoli; unm.

WAYTH, SIDNEY ALFRED, Private, No. 2342, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F), only s. of the late Edward Wayth, Mining Engineer, by his wife, Beatrice Elizabeth (now wife of Edward Steeles, of 54, Oxford Road, Harrow), dau. of James Spinks; b. Stoke Newington, N., 3 April, 1896; educ. Greenhill Council School, Harrow, gained a certificate for the London School of Economics and Political Science on “The Law of Carriage of Railway”; was a Clerk in the Great Northern Railway at King’s Cross; joined the Territorial Force after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote: “I can assure you he was liked by all and was a good soldier.”

WAYLING, THOMAS, Private, No. G. 1902, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 March, 1915.

WEAKE, ERNEST ALBERT, Private, No. 8340, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, Le Mans, France, 10 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

WEARMOUTH, ISAAC NORMAN, Private, No. 8434, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Wearmouth, of James Street, Stanhope, Durham; b. co. Durham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 6 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried Boulogne Cemetery.

WEATHERILL, EDWARD THEAKER, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yr. s. of Capt. John Weatherill, of 6, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, Shipowner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Archibald Mackenzie; b. Dublin, 19 March, 1887; educ. at St. Andrew’s College, Dublin; Fettes College, Edinburgh; and Armstrong College (Durham University), Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he obtained at the age of 20 his B.Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Engineering, and, after serving his time as a Marine Engineer, gained his First Class Certificate, and subsequently became a Partner in his father’s firm of Shipowners. At its formation in Sept. 1914, he joined the “Football” Coy. of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers (having previously been a Member of the Monkstown and Lansdowne Football Clubs), and was elected by the Coy. to be Sergt. of the Machine Gun Section. On his being gazetted 2nd Lieut. in March, 1915, he was transferred from “D” Coy. to “B” Coy. of the same Battn. He left for the Dardanelles 9 July, 1915, and in the last letter received from him, dated 14 Aug. 1915, said: “We got here a week to-day, and I expect you will have heard by now all we have done so far. We landed under a very heavy shrapnel fire. Russell and I were left behind on the boat to load the stores of the Battn., and before we landed our first wounded started to come back. Then an old Taube flew over, dropped a bomb—which just missed us by inches—and gave those on shore the range, so we got shelled before we even got into the lighter. They did not hit us, however. We then landed and had to unload the boat on the beach. They got the range of us all right and we had some very narrow shaves. My water bottle was hit. Luckily we had no casualties. I will not tell you any more till I get home, except that all my fellows have behaved splendidly, and one, P. Quinn, has been mentioned. He was out sniping with me from an advanced trench on Thursday, and we got four of their snipers, so I recommended him this morning.... I am fit and well, and so far have been very lucky.” He was killed in action at Suvla Bay 16 Aug. 1915; unm. Letters received from officers and men alike testify to his gallant conduct. Capt. J. Lucie Smith, B Coy., wrote: “He bore himself in a most gallant manner, and at ‘Chocolate Hill’ brought in five wounded men under fire, for which deed I believe he has been mentioned in despatches.” Lieut. R. Douglas, Machine Gun Officer: “From the moment we landed he was splendid. He was in the thick of all the worst fighting round Hill 53 (the original position taken by our Battn.), he was seen one day carrying five different wounded men of ours under terrible fire, leaving his own trench each time to do so. It was on the early morning of Monday last, the 16th, that he was killed during a bomb attack by the Turks. At the time he was hit he was rallying some men of another battn. who were breaking up. He succeeded in getting them back, and so saved the position for us, but in doing so he was killed. No praise could be too high for the manner in which he fought, lived and died out here; he was wonderful.” L.-Corpl. Fraser, Machine Gun Section, now Lieut. in Connaught Rangers: “We had a very severe shelling on landing, and your brother distinguished himself on several occasions for bravery, leaving the trenches and bringing five wounded men under fire. On other occasions he displayed his fearlessness of danger also. I need hardly say his deeds have commanded the admiration and respect of everyone”; and Sergt. Charles E. Sawyer, B Coy.: “He was a fearless leader and a good friend to us all. The event of Lieut. Weatherill’s death needs some explanation. We were ordered to take up a position on a long ridge overlooking the sea, and ‘B’ Coy., with Engineers, had to dig a fire trench from the top down to the sea, and occupy it in the front line. In going towards this position in firing line formation No. 2 platoon became detached from the remainder of the Coy., the night being so dark. Mr. Weatherill then ordered us under cover while he went out to look for our Coy. He went to the top of the ridge, where the Royal Irish Fusiliers were keeping the right flank and found they had lost all, except one wounded, of their officers, and the men in a state of depression. Lieut. Weatherill returned to us and told me to go with him to where the Royal Irish Fusiliers were posted, and ordered me to find their N.C.O.’s and rouse the men as much as possible. I found they had only one L.-Corpl., and after some persuasion got the men to keep a look-out to ensure their own and our safety. We were thanked by their poor wounded officer and were returning to our platoon when Mr. Weatherill stopped and told me he felt it was his duty to stay with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and ordered me back to take command of No. 5 and join up with the Coy. as soon as possible. He wished me good-bye and to do our best, and left me. That was the last I saw of him alive. Next morning the fighting was very great and I heard the Royal Irish Fusiliers were being badly pressed and I went to the top of the ridge and learned from one of their men that Mr. Weatherill had been killed at daybreak (only a few yards from his great friend Lieut. Russell). I must say I was with Mr. Weatherill from the moment of landing in that terrible advance round Salt Lake and other places, and can truly say that a more brave and cool officer never took men into action in that awful Peninsula, and he fell in the knowledge that he was doing his duty and died as only a gentleman and a British Officer can die.”

WEAVER, ALBERT, Leading Stoker, 308507, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEAVER, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, 312062, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WEAVER, WALTER, Private, No. 8655, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Weaver, of Child Pitt, Newport, Shropshire, by his wife, Mary (Oak Cottage, Bicton Heath, near Shrewsbury), dau. of the late Edward Broome, of Hill End Farm, Lydbury, Salop; b. Crudgington, co. Salop, 12 Oct. 1890; educ. Lilleshall Public School, Newport, co. Salop, was a Porter, Rowton House, Newington Butts, London; enlisted in the Coldstreams in March, 1910; went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date; unm.

WEBB, ALBERT, Private, 846, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 15 May, 1915.

WEBB, ARTHUR STUART, Sergt., No. 11533, 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, elder s. of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known Hampshire and Glamorgan professional cricketer, by his wife, Ethel E. (45A, Mersham Road, Thornton Heath); b. St. Helier’s, Jersey, 31 March, 1894; educ. Southampton Grammar School; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was promoted Sergt. 1 Feb. 1915. He went with his regt. to the front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. Sergt. Webb, who was himself a keen cricketer, belonged to a well-known sporting family; one of his uncles played for Kent, and another was Fred Webb, the ex-jockey, who won the Derby in 1873. His father is now (1916) on service with the Royal Fusiliers. A comrade wrote: “I was present at Neuve Chapelle when your eldest son got killed. He was a brave fellow, and led his platoon until he got to the German’s barbed wire. We were unable to get him into our trenches; but he died like a hero.” His younger brother, Sergt. C. F. Webb, was killed 16 May, 1915 (see his notice).

WEBB, CHARLES ELIJAH JAMES, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 7800, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEBB, CHARLES FREDERICK, Sergt., No. 11428, 1st Battn., King’s Royal Rifles, yr. s. of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known professional cricketer, etc. (see above notice); b. Newport, Isle of Wight, 3 Feb. 1896; educ. Southampton Secondary School; enlisted in Sept. 1914, was promoted Sergt. March, 1915, a week after his brother’s death, and died from wounds received in action at Givenchy, 16 May, 1915, succumbing while on his way to the Field Ambulance; unm. His Qr.-Mr. Sergt. G. Knaggs, wrote to his father, at the request of Section Officer Major Barton Frere: “His Battn. attacked the German trenches on the night, 15–16 May, and captured them. Your son was seen to fall wounded, and although his wounds may then have been slight ones, it is possible that he was more severely hit on proceeding to the rear. In any case it is only too evident that he did not reach the Field Ambulance.”

WEBB, EDGAR DORRINGTON, Sergt., No. 1164, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Edward Webb, Capt. 14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt., late King’s Own Scottish Borderers by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Powell; b. Devonport, 5 June, 1891; educ. Dumfries Academy, and Dulwich College, London; was a clerk in the Bank of England, May, 1910, to Aug. 1914; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in June, 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Brewery Post Trench, near Rue de l’Epinette, Pas de Calais, 5 May, 1915. Buried in British Cemetery, Rue du Bois, near Bethune. Sergt. Webb m. at St. Leonard’s Church, Streatham, London, S.W., Annie Florence, dau. of Arthur Henry Cornish; s.p.

WEBB, EDWARD CHARLES HARRY, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of Edward Webb, of Cosham House, Cosham, co. Hants and Hindugalla, Peradeniya, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Mary Quarry, dau. of William Charles Whitham, of Warangalla, Ceylon; b. Hindugalla, 18 Dec. 1894; educ. Haileybury College; passed into Sandhurst in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Lincolns, 10 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, and buried in an orchard with other officers and men of the regt.; unm.

WEBB, JAMES, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270880, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEBB, JOHN BOYER, Lieut., 4th Battn. Prince of Wales’ North Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st. Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of Capt. Charles Boyer Webb, of Elford House, Tamworth, late 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (died 26 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Adela Dorothy, dau. of Colonel Arthur Blundells, 3rd East Kent Regt., and grandson of the late Colonel Charles John Webb, who for some time commanded the same regt. (4th N. Staffs); b. near Tamworth, 8 June, 1894; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was gazetted to the 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. 7 Aug. 1914, being quartered at Guernsey till 16 March, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Bedfords, and promoted Lieut. 1 April following. He was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 21 April, 1915; unm.

WEBB, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2556), 199206, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WEBBER, CHARLES HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3852), 197166, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WEBBER, EDWARD CHARLES, Clerk, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Good Hope, only s. of Edward Samuel Webber, of 18, Taswell Road, Southsea, M.B. Cantab, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Dr. John Brickwell; b. Sutton Valence, co. Kent, 13 May, 1894; educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, where he was Captain of the Games, 1910 and 1911, and Sergt. in the O.T.C.; entered the Navy, 15 July, 1911; appointed Clerk, 15 July, 1912; appointed to the staff of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, 25 Feb. 1913; and went down in H.M.S. Good Hope in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

WEBBER, HAROLD PERCIVAL, L.-Corpl., No. 2398, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of William Webber, retired Coy. Secretary, for 43 years in the service of John Board & Co., Ltd., of Dunball, Bridgwater, Cement, Lime, Brick and Tile Manufacturers; b. Puriton, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 7 May, 1889; educ. Collegiate School, Bridgwater; was apprenticed for three years to J. P. Curtis, of High Street, Weston-super-Mare, Ironmonger, with whom he stayed for a few months; after which he was with John Walsh, Ltd., of Sheffield, for about three years, and then entered the employ of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington, London, being one of the first batch of young men who enlisted from that establishment on the outbreak of war; after training in Malta, he went to France, arriving at Marseilles the first week in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near l’Epinette, Armentières, 13 March, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. Attenborough wrote: “He was shot through the head and died instantaneously. His death was a great loss to his Coy., in which he was very popular, and was a loss to the battalion as he was a very promising soldier. He is buried with others of his comrades in a cemetery prepared for soldiers near a large farmhouse just behind our trenches.”

WEBBER, HAROLD VICTOR, 2nd Lieut., 1st Somerset L.I., yst s. of the late Sergt.-Major William Webber, Somerset L.I. (who d. 6 July, 1915, the same day as his son was killed); by his wife, Elizabeth (Jellalabad, Holway Road, Taunton), dau. of Thomas Laver; b. Taunton, co. Somerset, 22 Oct. 1895; educ. Huish Grammar School there; enlisted in the Somerset L.I. 9 April, 1912; was promoted Corpl. 15 July, 1914; Sergt. 31 Oct. 1914; and gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the field, 14 Feb. 1915; went to France 22 Aug. 1914; served through the fighting at Ligny; the retreat from Mons; the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne; afterwards proceeding to Belgium with his regt., and took part in the 1st Battle of Ypres and the fighting in the Ploegsteert Woods. In Feb. 1915, he came home on leave, and in May was seriously wounded and again sent home, but returned to the front 7 June, and was killed in action on the Yser Canal, 6 July, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Major G. Fleming wrote: “Your son died as a gallant officer and soldier should at the head of his men and whilst performing a particularly dangerous and arduous task. We, with the Rifle Brigade, attacked the German trenches at 6 a.m. on the 6th inst., and your son had to dig communication trenches across the open from our trenches to the captured trenches. He was killed very soon after he had got his men into position lined up across the open. There must be great comfort to you in knowing that he died so gallantly and a soldier’s death in action is much to be coveted. We all miss him terribly as he was always so cheerful and willing to do anything in his power to help others and to perform his duty.” 2nd Lieut. Webber’s eldest brother, Sergt. W. T. Webber, was killed in France in Nov. 1914, and his two other brothers, Col.-Sergt. S. A. Webber and Col.-Sergt. J. S. Webber, are now (1916) on active service.

WEBBER, HUGO, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1683), 200656, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WEBBER, JOHN, Private, No. 7611, 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of the late James Webber, of Bootle, Liverpool, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Bootle, co. Lancaster, 14 Feb. 1879; educ. New Ferry, co. Chester; enlisted and served three years with the Colours; was a Labourer; rejoined 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and was reported missing after the heavy fighting on 29 Oct. 1914. He m. at Birkenhead, 1906, Myra (50, Teddesley Street, Walsall), dau. of Charles Jones, and had four children: James Edward, b. 8 April, 1907; John, b. 8 March, 1914; Myra, b. 29 Jan. 1909; and Gladys May, b. 21 Sept. 1911.

WEBSTER, COLIN AILESBURY, Private, No. 1253, No. 1 Coy., 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Co., only s. of Henry Ernest Webster, of 21, Kingsley Avenue, West Ealing, and the National Bank, Notting Hill Gate, W. (well-known in the swimming world as handicapper to the Otter Swimming Club); by his wife, Kate Minnie, dau. of William Ailesbury Bull; b. Bayswater, 13 May, 1894; educ. Acton County School, on leaving which he was employed on the Stock Exchange; joined the H.A.C., 8 Aug. 1914; left for France 18 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 25 Nov. following; unm. Buried in the garden of a farmhouse at Wulverghem. A sergt. of his Coy. wrote: “He has been a thoroughly good soldier throughout, and I can assure you we all (No. 1 Coy.) lament his loss.” Like his father he was a fine swimmer and at the close of the season of 1914, stood second for the average prize of the Otter Swimming Club. He was also a keen Rugby football player and a member of the Ealing Rugby Football Club.

WEBSTER, HARRY, Electrical Artificer, 2nd Class, 347541, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WEBSTER, JESSE, Petty Officer (N.S.), 201748, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEDDERBURN, ROBERT HAMILTON MACLAGAN, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn., The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), yst. s. of the Rev. Laurence Craigie Maclagan Wedderburn, Minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, at Madderty, Crieff, by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth, dau. of the late Lt.-Col. James Maxwell, C.B., sometime Acting Governor of the Gold Coast; b. Madderty Free Church Manse, co. Perth, 30 April, 1893; educ. at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University (M.A. April, 1914); was L.-Corpl. in his school O.T.C., and Sergt. of the machine-gun team of the University O.T.C., and obtained Certificates A and B; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve of officers, to 3rd Cameronians, 15 Aug. 1914; joined in Sept, and trained with them at the Nigg Camp, Ross-shire; left for Rouen in charge of 95 men, 1 Jan. 1915, was there attached to the 1st Cameronians then in the trenches near Armentières, and was killed in action in the trenches near Bois Grenier early in the morning of 3 Feb. following; unm. Buried beside Capt. Stirling in the village of Bois Grenier. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. P. N. Robertson, C.M.G., wrote: “Owing to the very short time he was with us, I had not seen your son personally very much, but I am informed that he was most keen in his work, and always did his very best to carry out efficiently every duty that was given him to do. He was at the time superintending the erection of a traverse of sandbags in the trenches, when he was shot through the brain by one of the enemy’s snipers,” and the Officer Commanding 3rd Battn., Major Luard, published the following order: “It is with the deepest regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death (killed in action) of 2nd Lieut. R. H. M. Wedderburn, of this Battn., and at the time serving with the 1st Battn. Though the late 2nd Lieut. Wedderburn was comparatively a short time with his battn., he was well-known for his exceptional keenness and the loss to this battn. is deeply felt by all.”

WEEDON, SYDNEY CHARLES, Private, No. 1102, 1/4th Battn. (Signal Section) Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Albert Weedon, of 23, Scott Street, Maidstone, by his wife, Alice Celia, dau. of John Fryer, of Maidstone, b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 19 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School there; was a Wire Mattress Maker; joined the R.W.K. Regt. early in 1911; went to India 29 Oct. 1914, and died on foreign service at Jubbulpore, India, 27 May, 1915, of septicæmia, contracted from drinking water from a native well; unm. He was buried in the English Cemetery there, with full military honours; a marble cross erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of his Coy. marks the grave. The Officer Commanding the signal section wrote: “He was in my Signal Section, and was one of the best and keenest signallers I had. He and his brother have been of very great assistance to me, always ready to do anything and always doing it thoroughly and well.” Two of his brothers are now (1916) on service: Pte. Leonard Weedon and L.-Corpl. Percy Weedon, both with the Royal West Kent Regt.

WEEDS, JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 11520, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WEEKES, JOHN, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9369), 296881, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WELBURN, ARTHUR, Private, No. 6663, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Thomas Welburn, of Weaverthorpe, Sherbarn Eke, York, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of the late Thomas Swain; b. Allerston Marshes, Pickering, 9 Feb. 1889; educ. Sledmere; enlisted 25 Feb. 1904, served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve, and was for some time in the Huddersfield Police Force and at the time of the outbreak of war was an attendant at the County Asylum, Rainhill, near Liverpool; he was called up on mobilization 5 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1914, by the bursting of a shell; unm.

WELBY, RICHARD WILLIAM GREGORY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, elder s. and h. of Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, of Denton Manor, Grantham, 5th Bt., C.B., formerly M.P. for Newark; by his wife, Lady Maria Louisa Helen, sister of Frederick William Fane, 4th Marquis of Bristol, and elder dau. of the late Lord Augustus Hervey; b. Denton Manor, 16 Oct. 1888; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Feb. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1911; went to France with his battn. which formed part of the 4th (Guards) Brigade, 12 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 16 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried in Soupir Churchyard, near Vailly on the Aisne. The Officer Commanding his battn. wrote: “We have been fighting a hard battle and had a very severe action on Tuesday, when Dick Welby was wounded in the shoulder. We were very short of officers owing to our heavy casualties, and every officer of Dick’s coy. had been killed or wounded. He very pluckily insisted on remaining at duty (instead of going to the hospital) to help us through the difficulty, and remained at duty during the following day; on the third day we got a terrible shelling and poor Dick was killed. I can’t tell you how we all deplore Dick’s loss, nor how gallantly he did his duty to the end.” Lieut. Welby was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914.

WELCH, GEORGE RICHARD, Leading Seaman, 190986, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELCH, WALTER GEORGE FREDERIC, Lieut., 117th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, only s. of Reginald Courtenay Welch, for twenty years Principal of the Army College, Heath End, Farnham, near Aldershot, by his wife, Adeline Charlotte, dau. of the late Abingdon Compton; b. Hyde Park, London, 7 March, 1890; educ. Charterhouse; The Army College, Farnham, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (passed in 25th on list, Jan. 1909); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 22 July, 1910, and posted to 127th Battery at Bordon; went to Depôt at Preston, Jan. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 23 July following. On mobilization he was attached to the 44th Brigade Ammunition Column; went to France 21 Aug. 1914, where he was, shortly after his arrival, posted to the 117th Battery, 26th Brigade, R.F.A. (1st Division), and took part in the fighting on the Aisne and in Flanders. He was killed in action while fighting his guns about 1,000 yards south of Veldhock, E.S.E. of Ypres, on the evening of 30 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was the life and soul of our little mess: a keen and a good soldier. We buried him alongside the guns he had fought”; and one of those who served under him wrote: “Mr. Welch was always very popular with the men, especially so in action.” Lieut. Welch was a keen football player and on one occasion at the Front took part in a match played behind the firing line, which was interrupted by a German bombardment and resumed when the fire died down.

WELCH, WALTER LEONARD, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15266, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WELCH, WILLIAM GEORGE, Armourer’s Crew, M. 5907, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WELCHMAN, EDWARD THEODORE, D.S.O., Capt., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Edward Welchman, of Carshalton, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., formerly of Heckington, Lincolnshire, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Singleton; b. Southea, co. Cambridge, 21 July, 1881; educ. Sleaford Grammar School and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd West Yorkshires, 11 Aug. 1900; and promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1902, and Capt. 7 March, 1910; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, April, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 [Despatches, London Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902; Queen’s medal with three clasps, D.S.O.], and with the 1st Battn. in the Mohmand Expedition, 1908 (medal with clasp). On his return home he joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. at York, but on the outbreak of war rejoined the 1st Battn.; went to France, 1 Oct. 1914, and died 26 Oct. following, at the Base Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received at Le Paradis on the 20th. Buried Boulogne Hospital Cemetery; unm. Capt. Welchman had a fine record, and numberless letters bear the highest testimony to his character and attainments. He was a keen sportsman, and very popular in both his regt. and outside it. He qualified for the Staff College, Camberley, which he entered Jan. 1914.

WELFARE, HAROLD CUTHBERT, Sergt., No. 1341, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry (T.F.), s. of John Henry Welfare, of St. Elliott’s, Crowborough, Farmer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of William Boarer, of Boarshead, Sussex; b. Crowborough, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1892; educ. King Charles’ School, Tunbridge Wells; was for some time in a solicitor’s office; afterwards returned to his father’s farm; joined the Sussex Yeomanry in 1910; volunteered for foreign service in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war, and the same month was promoted L.-Sergt., Aug. 1915, and Sergt. 6 Oct. 1915, the day before landing at Gallipoli. He took part in the fighting there during Oct., Nov. and Dec., and was almost the last man of the Brigade to leave on the evacuation on 1 Jan. 1916. He died in the Island of Lemnos, 28 Jan. 1916, from heart failure while leading in a Brigade Marathon Race, and was buried there in Portianos Cemetery with full Military Honours. A memorial cross was subscribed for and erected by his comrades. His chief officer, Major H. Powell-Edwards, wrote: “I would rather have lost anyone in my squadron sooner than him. He was a most capable soldier, cheerful under all circumstances, and a tower of strength in hard times. He died in the service of his country, and was in his life a gallant soldier and a gentleman whom England could ill spare.” At King Charles’ School he was head boy and capt. of the school XI, and afterwards captained Crowborough Football Club and held the Regimental Cross Country Championship. He also took a great interest in the Boy Scout movement and was Scoutmaster of the 1st Crowborough Coy. He m. at Withyham St. John, 21 Sept. 1914, Marjorie Ursula (Crowborough House, Crowborough), dau. of the late Thomas Warmington, Headmaster of Sir Henry Fermor’s School, Crowborough; s.p.

WELHAM, JAMES, Seaman, R.N.R., 5330A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLER, CHARLES GEORGE, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, L. 837, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLER, EDWARD JOHN, Corpl., No. 8/124, North Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Edward Weller; b. Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Ardgowan School. He was a member of the New Zealand Territorial Force, and when the war broke out was one of the first to volunteer, and left with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 27 April, 1915; unm. Corpl. Weller was a good shot and won the markman’s badge.

WELLER, JACK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2414), 181557, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLS, ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7240), S.S. 102191, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLS, ERNEST MAURICE, Private, No. 8131, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Daniel Wells, of Whetstone, co. Leicester, Hosiery Hand, by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Joseph Wale; b. Whetstone aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1888; educ. National School there; was a Shore Hand; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 29 Oct. 1908; went to France, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in the Cemetery there. He m. at Blaby Baptist Church, 25 Dec. 1912, Annie E. (Auburn Road, Blaby, Leicester), dau. of William Sabin, of Blaby, and had a daughter, Annie Wells, b. 20 Dec. 1913.

WELLS, FRANCIS, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope.; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WELLS, FREDERICK PENNSON, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./13273, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WELLS, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111410, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLS, HARRY STEPHEN, Telegraphist, J. 8634, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLS, JOHN DOUGLAS, Private, No. 6438, 3rd. Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Wells, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of George Edward Meacock; b. Clerkenwell, 12 Jan. 1884; enlisted 13 Dec. 1905, and was killed in action at St. Julien, during the Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Eastern Cemetery at Ypres. He m. at St. Paul’s, Newington, S.E., 24 Dec. 1911, Rose (51, Meadow Road, Clapham Road, S.W.), dau. of Frederick Brazier Smith, and had two children: Jack Douglas, b. 11 Nov. 1914, and Rose Kitty, b. 28 Dec. 1912.

WELLS, JOHN THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1155), 140773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELLS, WILLIAM APPLEYARD, Corpl. of Horse, No. 1385, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), s. of William Appleyard Wells, of Grasmere, Fairbolt Road, Stamford Hill, Merchant, by his wife, Annie Matilda, dau. of Henry Scott; b. Tottenham, N., 21 Aug. 1890; educ. Cowper Street, City Road; enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards, 30 Nov. 1909, was promoted Corpl. Sept. 1914; served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Verbuden Molen, Flanders, 6 Nov. 1914; unm.

WELLS, WILLIAM JOHN, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1914), 160507, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELSFORD, ARTHUR HADDEN, Private, No. 974, Honourable Artillery Coy., 3rd and yst. s. of the late Richard Sherring Welsford, of 6, The Orchard, Blackheath, Coffee Planter in Ceylon, by his wife, Jane Elizabeth (The Cottage, Semaphore Road, Guildford), dau. of the late James Alexander Hadden, of Bittacy House, Mill Hill, Hendon; b. Blackheath, London, S.E., 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Blackheath School, and St. Dunstan’s, Catford; was a clerk in the office of Messrs. G. W. Dawes & Co. 5, Lothbury, E.C.; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. the day war was declared, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in the trenches in Flanders, 2 June, 1915, while repairing some wire on a parapet for which work he had volunteered; unm. He was buried in the cemetery of the Elsenwalla Château, near Dickebusch.

WELSH, DAVID FERGUSON, Engine Room Artificer, R.N.R., 1198 E.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WELTON, WILLIAM JOBSON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2722), 283951, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WENDOVER, ALBERT EDWARD CHARLES ROBERT WYNN-CARRINGTON, Viscount, 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), only s. and heir of Charles Robert, 1st Marquis of Lincolnshire, K.G., joint Lord Great Chamberlain of England, by his wife, the Hon. Cecilia Margaret, née Harbord, Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. Queen Alexandra, eldest dau. of Charles, 5th Baron Suffield, K.C.B.; b. London, 24 April, 1895 (H.M. King Edward VII., sponsor); educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was mortally wounded, 13 May, 1915, in the charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade (The Blues, the 10th Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry), near Hooge, during the Second Battle of Ypres, and died in hospital at Boulogne on the 19th; unm. Buried in Moulsoe Churchyard, Bucks.

WENHAM, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111369, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WEST, ANDREW, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3964, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WEST, FREDERICK, L.-Corpl., S./6056, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 Nov. 1914.

WEST, FREDERICK, Private, G. 4447, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Frederick West, of Bishops Hall Lodge, Romford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 9 May, 1915.

WEST, GEORGE, Private, No. 13792, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., elder s. of John George West, of Old Bolingbroke, Spilsby, co. Lincoln, Labourer, by his wife, Martha (who died 8 June, two days after her son), dau. of Matthew Ward; b. Old Bolingbroke aforesaid, 31 Oct. 1893; educ. Village School there; enlisted Nov. 1914; went to France, 30 April, 1915, arriving at the Infantry Base, on Sunday, 2 May, and soon afterwards going into the trenches, and died in No. 4 General Hospital, Versailles, 6 June, 1915, of brain fever, following gunshot wound in the head, received in action, 28 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the General Cemetery, Versailles (G.R.C. 3378).

WEST, HERBERT GIDEON, Private, No. 9527, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of John West, of Silver Street, Steeple Ashton, near Trowbridge, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Kingman; b. Steeple Ashton, co. Wilts, 18 Jan. 1895; educ. National School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 18 March, 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 6 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried in Rentel Woods.

WEST, HERBERT WILLIAM, Leading Seaman, 197482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEST, ROBERT JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A., 10382, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEST, WILFRED SCRIMSHAW, L.-Corpl., No. 10886, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Edward Scrimshaw West, of Yarwell, Peterborough, Entire Horse Proprietor, by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Spiers, of Eye, Peterborough; b. Wood Newton, co. Northants, 23 Nov. 1894; educ. Yarwell; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, Oct. 1914; was promoted L.-Corpl. in Sept., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914, when the Coldstreams suffered heavily from concealed German machine-guns. He was a keen all-round sportsman; was a member of the choir at the Parish Church, and the Chaplain wrote saying what a help he had been to him in organising the open-air services.

WEST, WILLIAM EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7810), S.S. 103265, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WEST, WILLIAM FRANK, Private, N. 823, 5th, attd. 1st, Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest and only surviving s. of Frank Albert West, of 111, Townsend Road, Southall, by his wife, Louisa Maria, dau. of Mathew Henry Leagas; b. Dalston, London, 17 March, 1890; educ. The Grocers’ Company School, Hackney Downs, N.E. and Islington Day Training College; was Assistant Master at St. Clement’s Church of England School, Notting Hill, but joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war, 9 Sept. 1914; went to France with the 1st draft to join the 1st battn. 25 Jan. 1915, and died at Netley Hospital, Southampton, 12 May, 1915, after undergoing three serious operations, one being the amputation of his leg, rendered necessary by wounds received in action at the Battle of St. Julien, 25 April, 1915; unm. He was a keen athlete, fond of all games and sports; he held three silver medals for football, and the bronze Medallion and certificate for life saving.

WEST, WILLIAM HENRY, Petty Officer, 2nd Class, 199111, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

FAZAKERLEY-WESTBY, GILBERT BASIL JOCELYN, Capt., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Capt. Jocelyn Tate Fazakerley-Westby, of Mowbreck Hall, Kirkham, and Whitehall, Great Eccleston, late Royal Scots Greys and Lancashire Hussars, D.L., J.P., Lancashire, by his wife, Beatrice, 3rd dau. of Thomas Barlow Jarvis, of Swinnerton Park, Lancashire, and Croft Lodge, near Ambleside, Westmoreland; b. Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, London, W., 27 April, 1881; was christened in Aug. 1881, at the Roman Catholic Church, The Willows, Kirkham, Lancashire, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Liverpool; educ. St. Charles’ Roman Catholic College; entered the Queen Victoria’s Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 23 July, 1911; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1913, and Capt. Dec. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 4 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action during the fighting at Hill 60 on the night of 20–21 April, 1915, on which occasion Queen Victoria’s Rifles brilliantly distinguished themselves; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of your son; all ranks loved and respected him. His fortitude and forbearance during that terrible week was an example to the whole regt. and never to be forgotten.” He was a good all-round sportsman, a dead shot with the pistol, and the holder of five silver cups and seven other silver articles as prizes for shooting and rowing, etc.

WESTERN, WILLIAM CHARLES, Stoker, Petty Officer, 230364, Devonport, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WESTLAKE, JOHN LUKE, Corpl., No. 3235, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Treliving Westlake, of 3, Woburn Terrace, Tavistock, retired Prison official, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Luke Knight, of Gunnislake; b. Princetown, co. Devon, 11 Feb. 1883; educ. Princetown Public School and Tavistock Grammar School; was apprenticed to the ironmongery business on leaving there, and was subsequently in the employ of Messrs. Helliwell, Ltd., of Dudley, as a Traveller; gave up this position and joined the 2nd London Scottish on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was promoted to the rank of Sergt. in Dec. following, but in Aug. 1915, when volunteers for the 1st Battn. were called for, he offered himself, sacrificing his rank as sergt., and, crossing over to Rouen on the 18th of that month, joined the 1st Battn. as a Private. He took part in the Battle of Loos on 25 Sept., in which, though his company suffered severe losses, he was unwounded, and assisted in capturing and bringing in some prisoners. For his conduct on this occasion, he was restored to the rank of Corpl. He was killed in action on 13 Oct. 1915, while gallantly leading his men in an attack upon the German trenches near Loos, death being instantaneous; unm. His Coy. Commander, Capt. H. L. Seyer, wrote: “I find it difficult to tell you in what high regard Corpl. Westlake was held. I looked upon him as one of my coming men, a worthy successor of many fine non-commissioned officers who have left me to take commissions in this and other regts. His conduct at our severe engagement on 25 Sept. was beyond all praise, and his untimely end whilst leading his men on 13 Oct. is an enormous loss to me, his coy. and the whole battn. Your son was quite close to me when he fell, and I can vouch that he was killed quite instantaneously. It is such men as Corpl. Westlake who add lustre to the fame of the British Army and more particularly to the regt. to which they belong.”

WESTMACOTT, ERIC WALTER POYNTZ, Lieut., Royal Navy, H.M.S. Arethusa, yr. s. of Edgell Edward Westmacott, of Udney Place, Teddington, by his wife, Marian Charlotte Isabel, dau. of Innes Colin Munro, of Poyntzfield, late Capt. His Majesty’s 12th Regt.; b. Teddington, co. Middlesex, 23 June, 1887; educ. J. Williams-White’s School for the Navy, Bognor, and H.M.S. Britannia; became Midshipman, 30 Jan. 1904; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 March, 1907, and Lieut. 30 Jan. 1909, went to India in H.M.S. Argyll, one of the cruisers which escorted the King Emperor on the occasion of his visit to India after his Coronation; served as signal Lieut. to Commodore R. Y. Tyrwhitt, C.B., of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, on the outbreak of war, and accompanied him when he transferred his flag to the Arethusa two days before the Battle off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914, in which engagement he was killed. Commodore Tyrwhitt in his Despatch, said: “Lieut. Eric W. P. Westmacott (Signal Officer) was killed at my side during this action. I cannot refrain from adding that he carried out his duties calmly and collectedly, and was of the greatest assistance to me.” And he wrote to Mrs. Westmacott: “I can’t tell you how sorry I am and how splendid he was. He was standing next me on the bridge, and was so jolly and cheerful under a terrific fire. He had just said, ‘By Jove, they have got our range,’ which was true as we were in a regular inferno at the time, when he was hit ... his death being instantaneous.” Capt. Cecil Lambert, Fourth Sea Lord, wrote: “By the death of your husband the Service has lost a very gallant and valuable officer, and I have lost a personal friend, for whom I had a sincere admiration and affection.” Lieut. Westmacott was a fine hockey player, and in three successive years represented the Navy in their annual match with the Army. He m. at St. Andrew’s Church, Heybridge, Essex, 6 Aug. 1912, Dorothy, eldest dau. of Edmund Ernest Bentall, of The Towers, Heybridge, and had a son, Innes Bentall, b. 20 Sept. 1913. His brother, Richard Innes Edgell Westmacott, Sergt. 1st Scots Guards, was killed in action in France, 25 Jan. 1915.

WESTMACOTT, SPENCER RUSCOMBE, Lieut., Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th s. of the Rev. Walter Westmacott, Vicar of Probus and Hon. Canon of Truro, by his wife, Helen Maria Maud, dau. of John Austin Madeley, of Wood Hall, Salop, J.P.; b. 29 Jan. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leinsters, 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1912; seconded for “Grass Farm” work in India, 5 Nov. 1913, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. His five brothers are (1916) or have been on active service. 2nd Lieut. John L. Westmacott, R.E., wounded in head, lost an eye in France, April, 1915; 2nd Lieut. Horatio Westmacott, R.N., H.M.S. Agincourt; 2nd Lieut. Rupert W. Westmacott, enlisted in New Zealand Auckland Contingent, got his commission in Gallipoli, where he lost his left leg. 2nd Lieut. Peter G. Westmacott, joined 4th D.C.L.I., and afterwards exchanged into 31st Punjabis; 2nd Lieut. Wilfred A. Westmacott, 9th West Yorks, invalided home from Gallipoli with enteric, has returned to duty.

WESTON, CHARLES WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3928), 212186, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WESTON, GEORGE EDWARD, Sergt.-Major, No. 851, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Samuel Weston, of 3, East Street, Oadby, Leicestershire, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Folwell; b. Wigston, co. Leicester, 15 March, 1873; educ. Evington School, co. Leicester; enlisted 2nd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. June 1889, and served 21 years with the Colours, rising to the rank of Sergt.; went to Australia, Aug. 1910, where he was working on Sheep Farm; volunteered on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, being appointed Sergt.-Major; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 10 May, 1915 following. During the period he was in the West Yorks. he served in Ireland, China, India and South Africa, altogether serving 21 years, finishing with a life pension.

WESTON, GEORGE HENRY, Private, No. 8/1103, 14th Otago Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Weston, Carpenter; b. Wellington, New Zealand, 6 April, 1894; educ. there, was connected with the Wellington Boys’ Institute; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, was for some time in the 5th Wellington Battn., but was later transferred to the 14th Otago Infantry; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915; unm.

WESTWOOD, ALEXANDER CLEGHORN, Lieut., 1/7th (Fife) Battn. The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of Alexander Westwood, of Linley, Cupar, J.P., Bookseller and Publisher, by his wife, Helen Ramsay, dau. of Alexander Cleghorn; b. Cupar, 15 May, 1894; educ. Bell-Baxter School, Cupar, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and was associated with his father in business. At college he was an enthusiastic member of the Cadet Corps, and joined the Cupar Coy. of the 7th Battn. Black Watch in May, 1911. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. Oct. 1914. During the whole of his three years service in the ranks he was a member of the machine-gun section, and in May 1915, Lieut. Westwood was appointed machine-gun officer of his battn. He was killed in action by shell fire, while holding trenches captured from the Germans at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. H. M. Allen, D.S.O., Officer Commanding the 1/7th Black Watch, wrote to his father: “On my own behalf I should like to testify to the extremely high opinion in which your son was held by his brother officers and by the men. He had rendered invaluable service as machine-gun officer, and, both as an officer and a comrade, his loss will be severely felt by us all. It will be some consolation to you to know that his death was instantaneous and painless, and that he met it with the greatest courage, nobly doing his duty in a manner worthy of the best traditions of the British Army.” Lieut. Westwood was a keen sportsman, and took part in the matches of the local hockey club whenever business allowed him, playing in not a few Association fixtures. While training at Kinghorn he played Rugby for the garrison as well as Soccer for E Coy. He was a keen motor-cyclist; while another hobby was that of a poultry farmer, an interest which led him to act for some time as Joint Secretary of the Cupar Ornithological Society.

WESTWOOD, JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A., 12264, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WETTON, HENRY, Band-Sergt., No. 9133, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of the late Thomas Allen Wetton; b. Hounslow, co. Middlesex, 3 April, 1889; educ. Spring Grove, Isleworth; enlisted in the 2nd Middlesex, 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March. 1915; unm.

WHARTON, HAROLD, Private, No. 9696, St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, R.N.R., s. of Ernest Wharton, of 4, Springfield Terrace, Crumlin, Dublin, Ordnance Surveyor, by his wife, Susannah, dau. of Richard Pughe; b. Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 23 Sept. 1894; educ. Holy Trinity (Nat. School), Cork; was Lieut. in the 15th Coy. Boys’ Brigade, Dublin, and joined the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade in Oct. 1913. On the 5th Oct. 1914 he was appointed to H.M. hospital ship Munich (sailing between Southampton and Calais) as Sick Bay Attendant. He was transferred to H.M.S. Bayano on 28 Dec. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed, 11 March, 1915.

WHARTON, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHATLEY, FRANK, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142041 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHATLEY, SIDNEY JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 8919, 1st Coy. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of George Robert Whatley, Attendant Norfolk County Asylum, Thorpe, Norwich, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late Robart Carver, Yelverton, Norfolk; b. Postwick, Norwich, 6 Nov. 1892; educ. Thorpe St. Andrew’s School there; enlisted at Norwich, 13 June, 1910, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, being shot through the head; unm.

WHEAT, GEORGE ALFRED, Signalman, 239001, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHEATLEY, ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4402), S.S. 103386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHEELER, CLIFFORD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 982), 186074, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHEELER, LLOYD CHARLES, Gunner, R.M.A., 9442 (R.F.R., I.C. 81), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHEELER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Gunner, R.M.A., 8118 (R.F.R., I.C. 29), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHEELER, WILLIAM JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 8638, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William John Wheeler, by his wife, Maria; b. Kingston-on-Thames, 12 July, 1880; educ. Public School there; was a House Decorator; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 Oct. 1903; served at Glencorse and in India; went to France, 26 Aug., and was killed in action at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; being buried there. He m. at Kingston, 19 Oct. 1908, Charlotte Madge (18, Royal Oak Road, Woking), 2nd dau. of Arthur Hillier; s.p.

WHELAN, BERNARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9861), S.S. 107270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHENNELL, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7812), S.S. 103273, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHETLOR, ARTHUR CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6180), 214591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHICHELLO, RICHARD WILLIAM, Sergt., R.M.A. 7928, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHICHER, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1521), 206022, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHILES, SIDNEY HERBERT, Rifleman, No. 1886, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Herbert Whiles, of 70, Northcote Road, Walthamstow, late Private, No. 6824, Army Service Corps (served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was discharged April 1916, owing to injury to eye), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steuber; b. Leytonstone, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Forest Road Council School, Walthamstow, and Walthamstow Higher Elementary School, at both of which he gained prizes for mathematics, and also showed proficiency in Art and Divinity; became a clerk in the National Amalgamated Insurance Society; joined the Rangers, Jan. 1914, and volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; went to France with the first draft for his battn. which formed part of the 11th Brigade (4th Division), and was killed in action near the village of Fortuin during the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April; unm. Buried at Fortuin. His Commander wrote: That he was a gallant soldier throughout and that he personally regretted his loss, as he had frequently accompanied the officer on billet finding expeditions, in which his knowledge of French enabled him to act as interpreter. A brass plate to his memory was placed in the church of St. Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow (where he was a chorister for eight years), by his old comrades.

WHISKIN, ERNEST CHARLES, Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Charles Frederick Whiskin, by his wife, Susanna Agnes; b. Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 13 May, 1870, and educated there. He joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1892, and in 1908, when the Territorial Force was formed, he continued his service in the same regt. Holding an important position at Messrs. Jas. Shoolbred & Co., Ltd., he was for many years a Sergt. in the firm’s Company, which rank he held when the Battn. left for France on 1 Nov. 1914. His was the first company to take over a fire trench on the 14th of that month, when they relieved B Coy. of the East Yorkshires at Burnt-out Farm, near Gris Pot, he being at the time No. 1 Platoon Sergt. He was promoted to Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, Flanders, 3 May following. C.Q.M.S. Whiskin had the Volunteer Long Service medal, and received mention by his Colonel for good service in France; he was a good shot, and was held in high esteem by his officers, brother N.C.Os. and men. He m. at St. Pancras, Marylebone Road, London, 6 Sept. 1902, Annie Ethel (Bancroft, Powys Lane, Palmer’s Green, N.), dau. of Henry Barham, of Hitchin, and had two daughters: Agnes Nora, b. 19 July, 1903; and Winifred Ethel, b. 30 May, 1906.

WHITAKER, CHARLES, A.B., 239469, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITAKER, HAROLD, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of Arthur Whitaker, of 52, Cadogan Square, S.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Charles Wilkin; b. London, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. Westgate-on-Sea (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey), Eton (Mr. E. Impey’s House), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (from which he passed out first of the Infantry candidates of his term in 1904); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Rifle Brigade, 4 June, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 15 Sept. 1907, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1913; served in Egypt, the Sudan and India, was Assistant Provost Marshal of the Delhi Durbar, 1911 (medal); returned to England with his regt. in Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. following, and was killed in action near Fauquissart on the night of 1–2 Dec. 1914, when, after visiting his sentries he had gone forward alone about 1.30 a.m. to reconnoitre, it having been surmised that fresh German troops had taken up positions in front of our line of trenches. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an ardent explorer and keen big game shot. Besides expeditions on the White Nile, in Kashmir and Mesopotamia, he returned to India in 1908 through Russia, Central Asia and Turkestan, the latter part of this journey he made with native following only, which no English traveller had done before crossing 23 passes over 10,000 feet high, the highest being the Karakorum, 18,317 feet above sea level. He m. at Grayshott, co. Hants, 27 April, 1910, Madeleine Eléonore, dau. of David de Pury, of Grayshott and Neuchatel, Switzerland, and had two children: John de Pury, b. 10 Oct. 1911; and Lorraine Marie, b. 30 July, 1914. It is feared that his younger brother, Lieut. Trevor Whitaker, R.N., lost his life on active service in the North Sea in Jan. 1915. A still younger brother, Capt. and Adjutant Raymond Whitaker, Rifle Brigade, is now (1916) on active service, attd. to the R.F.C., and his youngest brother, L.-Corpl Geoffrey Whitaker, is in the Eton College O.T.C.

WHITBY, CHARLES BARRY DOUGLAS, Private, No. 26022, 14th Battn. (1st Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Charles Joseph Whitby, of 9, The Paragon, Bath, M.D. Cantab., by his wife, Clare, dau. of Joseph Hayden; b. Cambridge, 13 Nov. 1884; educ. Reading School, went to Canada about 1904, residing first in Montreal, later in Emerson and other places, then returning to Montreal, where at the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he held a position on the Staff of the “Gazette.” He at once enlisted and went into training at Valcartier, came to England with the first Canadian Contingent, and competed his training on Salisbury Plain. He crossed to Flanders with his Division early in 1915, and took part in the action at Neuve Chapelle. On 22 April, 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres was opened by the discharge of poison gas against the Turcos, who were driven back leaving the Canadian left exposed. On the morning of the 24th the 14th Battn., shelled out of a shallow dug-out they had prepared over night, in a field near St. Julien, retreated uphill under very heavy fire. Near the summit Private Whitby was hit and fell in a ditch, joking as he fell. He was never seen again by his comrades, but was officially reported “wounded and missing.” Later a report by the enemy stated that he had been picked up by them, had died on May 8 or 9, and was buried on Hill 20 (Kersselaare), not far from where he fell. In letters received from his comrades he was described as “a splendid soldier, always among the first to offer himself for any dangerous duty.” While at the front Private Whitby contributed several descriptive articles on life in the trenches to the “Montreal Gazette.”

WHITCHURCH, LESLIE SEDGWICK, Capt., 21st Prince Albert Victor’s Own Punjab Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army, attd. 5th Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of the late Rev. Walter Beaumont Gurney Whitchurch, Rector of Spixworth, Norfolk, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth (Old Catton, Norfolk), dau. of (—) Sedgwick; b. Lockeridge House, co. Wilts, 6 April, 1880; educ. Marlborough and Sandhurst, where he took the Queen’s Gold Medal for Military Proficiency and the Sword of Honour, with six other prizes, and on passing out, broke the College “record” and was given six months seniority; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, unattd., 19 July, 1899; entered Indian Staff College, 1 Oct. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1901; and appointed Squadron Officer in 21st Cavalry, 29 May, 1902, and became Capt., 19 July, 1908; served on the N.W. Frontier of India, Waziristan, 1901–2 (medal with clasp), and also took part in the operations against the Darwesh Khel Waziris, 1902; was home on leave when the European War broke out, and at once applied to be attd. to a British Regt.; trained reserves for the 9th Lancers at Tidworth for a short time; was sent to France to join 5th Dragoons, 10th Squadron, and was killed in action at Messines on 31 Oct. following, during the First Battle of Ypres; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was a most gallant and capable officer, and I was most fortunate to have had him with me. He was killed when most gallantly holding on to an advanced post which he had occupied with a few men on the edge of the town, when the enemy made a very determined attack on the town we were holding. He held on there though the enemy in force were only a few yards away from him. He was quite dead when I reached him. I grieve to have to tell you we were unable to bring him back. All I can say is that it was not possible. I reported especially upon his conduct as having been most gallant.”

WHITCOMBE, DOUGLAS JAMES AUBREY, Private, No. 6/176, Canterbury Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Frederick Whitcombe, of 24, Buckley’s Road, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, by his wife, Alice, grand. dau. of Lieut.-Col. Mein, C.B., of Dumfries; and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. in New Zealand, May, 1893; volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

WHITCOMBE, GERALD AUBREY, Trooper, No. 13/750, Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; 2nd s. of George Whitcombe, of Kawhia, New Zealand; by his wife Margaret Janet, dau. of Albert West Sedcat, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. New Zealand, Oct. 1890, volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 Aug. 1915; unm.

WHITCOMBE, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 15193, Royal Canadian Dragoons, only s. of Charles Henry Whitcombe, of Sunnyside, Crudwell, Malmesbury, F.R.C.S., by his wife, May, dau. of Richard Billiald, of Nottingham, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. Westerham, co. Kent, 18 May, 1889; educ. the New School, Halifax, co. York, and the Royal Latin School, co. Bucks; was for two years in the Eastern Telegraph Co., but went to Canada in 1907 and took up farming at Pilot Mound, Manitoba. On the outbreak of the European War he joined the Fort Garry Horse, Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in June, 1915, when he was attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons; and died near Ploegsteert, 1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action same day; unm. He was buried in the Maple Leaf Military Cemetery, Romarin, near Nieppe, Belgium.

WHITE, ALFRED, Leading Seaman, 200784 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHITE, ALFRED WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106882, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WHITE, BENJAMIN WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11762, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 766), 280315, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, ERNEST, Signal Boy, J. 24674, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, FREDERICK, Stoker, Petty Officer, 297650, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, GEORGE EDWARD, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9578), 203769, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, GILBERT VICTOR, Private, No. 871, The Honourable Artillery Company, yr. s. of William Baglin White, of High View, Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 11 Jan. 1893; educ. Quernmore School and Clifton College; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and joined the H.A.C. 4 Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept.; was in the trenches from Nov. to Jan., and died at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 2 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres, on 6 Jan. He was shot by a German sniper while helping to bring in a wounded comrade; unm.

WHITE, HARRY ARTHUR ALBERT, Ordinary Signalman, J. 11354, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHITE, JAMES ERNEST, Private, No. 287, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of James White, of 2, Woodside Road, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Josiah Briscoe; b. London, N., 30 Sept. 1885; educ. Higher Grade School, Wood Green, N., and Birkbeck College; was a Clerk in the Oceana Land Co., Ltd.; joined the London Rifle Brigade on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 13 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, 27 April, 1915; unm. He was buried at Fortuin. White took a prominent part in many branches of Church work, was an enthusiastic ’cellist, and led a small orchestra.

WHITE, LESLIE SPENSER, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., eldest s. of Frank Faulder White, of Charlton Road, Blackheath, F.R.C.S. Eng., by his wife, Eva Dalgairns, dau. of the late Major J. D. Travers; b. Coventry, 21 Sept. 1891; educ. King Henry VIII’s School there, and Framlingham College; joined the Artists Rifles immediately on the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal West Kent Regt., 27 Jan. 1915; went to France in Oct. 1914; served as temp. 2nd Lieut. with the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in the trenches and was accidentally killed near Ypres, 15 March, 1915, by a bomb explosion, while on active service; unm. Buried there.

WHITE, LLOYD ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9380, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHITE, LYNTON WOOLMER, Lieut., 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, elder s. of Woolmer Rudolph Donati White, of Salle Park, co. Norfolk, and Southleigh Park, co. Hants, J.P., High Sheriff, co. Norfolk (1914), by his wife, Edith Wittcomb, yr. dau. of George Dawes Monck, of Hilsea, co. Hants.; b. Southsea, 5 May, 1886; educ. Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, gazetted 2nd Lieut. 7 May, 1905, and promoted Lieut. 25 March, 1910. Being home on leave when the war broke out, he was attached to the Queen’s Bays; was severely wounded in action at the Battle of Nery, 1 Sept. 1914, during the retreat from Mons and died at the Chateau de Baron, three days later. He was buried at first in the Chateau grounds and afterwards removed to the Churchyard. He m. at St. Mary Abbott’s, Kensington, 29 June, 1911, Dorothea, only dau. of W. R. Haughton, of Calcutta, V.D., M.I.C.E., formerly Engineer-in-Chief Eastern Bengal State Railway; s.p.

WHITE, ROBERT HENRY, Private, No. 9733, 3rd Battn. (Toronto Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert White, Master Roscrea (Ireland) Union, by his wife, Elizabeth (44, Dingwall Avenue, Toronto, Canada), dau. of William Proctor, of Glashare, co. Kilkenny; b. Roscrea, co. Tipperary, 8 July, 1895; educ. National School there; went to Canada in May, 1914, and was a Sales Clerk; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Toronto, about 20 Aug. 1914; left Valcartier for England with the first contingent 9 Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France early in Feb. and was killed in action “in the field between St. Julien and St. Jean,” 23 April, 1915, being shot through the head and killed instantly.

WHITE, WALTER EDWIN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7921, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES, Blacksmith’s Mate, M. 5496, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, WILLIAM CLEMENT, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5261), 181422, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITE, WILLIAM DARCY, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19848, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WHITEFORD, PETER, Sergt., No. 6965, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 4th s. of Andrew Whiteford, of Cramond, by his wife, Hannah Lawrie, dau. of James Black, of Easter Drylaw, Cramond; b. Davidson’s Mains, Cramond, 15 May, 1886; educ. Davidson’s Mains Public School; enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders at Edinburgh in 1904, and after a few months in Dublin served three years in South Africa, two years in China, and two years in India, returning to England in Jan. 1912. He obtained his discharge 1 June that year, and became a gardener to Mr. W. R. Reid at Lauriston Castle. When war broke out he rejoined at Inverness, and after training recruits there for four months, was promoted Sergt., and went to France early in Dec. He was killed while leading his platoon into action at La Bassée 25 Jan. 1915; unm.

WHITEHEAD, ALFRED GEORGE, Signal Boy, J. 23867, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WHITEHEAD, CHARLES, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 9373, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WHITEHEAD, HARRY HARDING, Private, No. 3/927, R.N.V.R. Hawke Battn. 1st R.N. Brigade, R.N. Division, 2nd s. of James Dove Whitehead, of Middleton Hall, near Pickering, Yorks, J.P., North Riding, by his wife, Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Samuel Harding Loy, J.P., Keldead, Pickering; b. Scarborough, 26 March, 1891; educ. Repton School; qualified as an Engineer, and joined a Flying School for the Naval Flying Corps, joining the R.N.V.R. after the outbreak of war, in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915; unm. His only brother, Capt. James Loy Whitehead, is now (1916) on active service.

WHITEHEAD, HENRY MONTAGUE, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd s. of Henry Hammond Whitehead, of Boston Road, Brentford, by his wife, Edith Miriam, dau. of John Cove, of Northampton; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 16 Nov. 1890; educ. Tonbridge School, where he was in the O.T.C.; was an Architect; joined the Artists Rifles in 1908; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Surreys, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France Jan. 1915; attd. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, joining the 2nd Battn. East Surreys in March, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 14 April, 1915; unm. Buried there.

WHITEHEAD, JAMES SCULLARD, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2390), 161600, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHITEHURST, CHARLEY, Private, No. 13205, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John William Whitehurst, of 4, Grove Lane, Smethwick; b. Birmingham; educ. Dudley Road and City Road Schools; was employed in the Ebbw Vale Steel Works; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. He m. at St. Matthew’s Church, Smethwick, 29 Sept. 1907, Emma (2, Fering Street, Corporation Road, Newport, co. Monmouth), dau. of Robert (and Emma) Bell, and had a dau., Elsie Agnes, b. 24 June, 1913.

WHITEHURST, HAROLD, Private, No. 1544, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of William Whitehurst, of 31, Cove Street, Beverley Road, Hull; b. Hull, 27 Feb. 1897; educ. Trinity House School, Hull; after leaving school was apprenticed to Messrs. Wright & Bacon, Shipowners; joined 1st Highland L.I., 6 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 11 and 18 March, 1915; unm. Two of his brothers are serving in the Army: George William Whitehurst in the N.E.R. Fusiliers (Pioneers), and Alfred Whitehurst in the 2nd Northumbrian R.F.A.

WHITELAW, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 9040, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., s. of Alexander Whitelaw, Foreman Carpenter with Messrs. Currie & Co., of Leith, Ship Owners, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Adam Stenhouse, of Leith, b. Leith, 22 Aug. 1880; educ. Couper Street School there; enlisted in 1902, served for three years with the Colours and nine years in the Reserve, and on mobilization rejoined his regt. 17 Aug. 1914. He was shot through the head by a German sniper while helping to repair the trenches at Houplines, 30 Jan. 1915, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He m. at Leith, 9 July, 1908, Jane Jackson (66, Coburg Street, Leith), dau. of Allan McCallum, and had two sons and a dau.: Alexander, b. 6 Sept. 1909; Allan McCallum, b. 14 March, 1913, and Susan Webster, b. 9 Dec. 1910.

WHITEWAY, THOMAS, Petty Officer, 208492, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WHITFIELD, THOMAS NICHOLAS, E.R.A., 3rd Class, M. 1752, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WHITING, CHARLES, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 186224, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WHITING, FREDERICK JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 1050, 1/6th (Cyclist) Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of John Whiting, of 73, Surrey Road, Ipswich, by his wife, Margaret; b. Westerfield, Ipswich, 10 Jan. 1893; educ. Council School and Boys’ British School there; joined the Suffolk Cyclists, 20 March, 1912, and died in the Military Hospital, Saxmundham, 12 May, 1915, from injuries received through an armoured car, while cycling out with his company, near Saxmundham; unm.

WHITTLE, GEORGE THOMAS, Petty Officer, 237335, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHITTLE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, 290939 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHYBROW, THOMAS JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9533), 106899, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WHYTE, CHARLES LEONARD LE BARON, Chief Petty Officer, 147436, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WHYTE, DAVID STEWART, Engine Room Artificer, No. Ch. 270811, R.N., only s. of the late John Stewart Whyte, of Stonehaven, Edinburgh, and 101, Stephen’s Road, Tunbridge Wells, Schoolmaster (died 23 March, 1915), by his wife Margaret (died 5 Sept. 1911), dau. of the late James Sutherland, Leith, N.L.S.; b. Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 10 Nov. 1878; educ. Tewel Public School there, and Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; was 2nd Engineer in the Merchant Service; joined the Navy Nov. 1902, and was lost on H.M.S. Good Hope, 1 Nov. 1914, when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili. He m. at St. Simon’s Church, Southsea, 1 Aug. 1908, Emmeline Annie (31, Wisborough Road, Southsea), dau. of the late David Williams, of Southsea, and had two children: Merry Sutherland, b. 28 Nov. 1909, and Lena, b. 1 Sept. 1913.

WICKENDEN, HARRY CHARLES, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./6612, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WICKINS, VERNON JOHN, Private, No. 2086, 15th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late Vernon Evan Wickins, Engineer (who died shortly after the outbreak of war), by his wife, Mary (Cambria, 32, Wellington Street, North Hobart, Tasmania), dau. of John McGinnes, of Edinburgh; b. Hobart, 30 Aug. 1886; educ. State School there; joined when young the Volunteer Force and for five and a half years was a member of the Derwent Infantry Regt., in which he was promoted Sergt., 27 May, 1911. He was for some years employed in the Government Railways Service at Launceston, and while there became an active member of the Hobart Launceston Rifle Club, but on the illness of his father resigned his position to return home to Hobart so as to be a help to his mother and the other members of the family. On his return to Hobart he joined the A.N.A. Rifle Club and was on the roll as an active member when war broke out. He volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 15th Battn., 6 Feb. 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 Aug. 1915. Capt. L. Simpson, A.N.A. Rifle Club, wrote: “Vernon Wickins endeared himself to all his club mates and to all with whom he came in touch by his quiet, kindly and unassuming manner, and no greater testimony can be given of his love for country and fellow mortals than that he laid down his life for them.” He m. at Launceston, Tasmania, 3 April, 1915, Hilda, dau. of (—) Collins.

WICKS, JAMES, Private, No. 9532, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of George Wicks, of 22, Parkfield Road, Hollington, near Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 Oct. 1914.

WIDGER, JAMES SAUNDERS, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345559, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WIGG, ARTHUR HARRY, Private, No. 2685, 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Company, yr. s. of the late Harry Owen Wigg, of Ealing, W., formerly of West Derby, Liverpool, Draper’s Buyer, by his wife, Mary Walmsley (25, Gordon Road, Ealing, W.), dau. of the late Thomas Fletcher, of Newsham Park, Liverpool; b. West Derby, Liverpool, 16 Oct. 1890; educ. Elstow School (formerly called Bedford County School), Bedford; was in the service of Messrs. Dalton & Young, Fenchurch Street, E.C.; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war and joined the H.A.C. in Nov. 1914; left for France 26 April, 1915, as one of a draft to the 1st Battn.; and was killed in action at Hooge, 16 June following. Early on the morning of the 16th the British had attacked with some success south of Hooge, capturing 1,000 yards of German front trenches and part of their second line. Towards night the troops holding the most advanced of the captured trenches were obliged to fall back, and volunteers were called to go to their support. Private Wigg was one of those who volunteered, and while advancing with a party composed of men from various units under Major G. N. Crosfield, 4th South Lancashires, was hit in the head by a piece of high explosive shell and killed instantaneously. He was buried by the side of a path leading to the Sunken Road between Hooge and Potijze; unm. He was a very keen sportsman, being vice-captain of the Old Elstonian Hockey Club and a member of the Ealing Cricket Club, upon the committee of which he served.

WIGG, EDWARD CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1497), 208328, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WIGHTMAN, FRANCIS CHARLES, Private, No. 00189, 1st Imperial Light Horse, elder s. of the late John Wightman, of Edinburgh, Master Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, by his wife, Janet (28, Mardale Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of James McFarlane; b. Edinburgh, 6 April, 1880; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College there; joined the Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) at the time of the South African War; took part in the operations there, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps; returned to South Africa, 1902, and was for a time at the Remount Camp at Mooi River, afterwards settling in Johannesburg, where he held a position in one of the Rand Mines, Cattine Modder, Brakham. On the outbreak of the European War he made preparations to return to Britain, but on the rebellion in South Africa he joined the 1st Imperial Light Horse, and was killed in action at Rooidam, 25 Nov. 1914, during a fight with Kemp’s force, which lasted all day; unm. He was buried there. He was a keen footballer and played for Daniel Stewart’s College F.P. 1st team; a good horseman and a good shot.

WIGHTON, JAMES ALBERT FORGAN, Leading Carpenter and Diver, R.N., No. 346697, 2nd s. of the late James Brown Wighton, Jute Commission Agent, Calcutta, by his wife, Catherine (28, Redbourne Street, Boulevard, Hull), dau. of James Albert Forgan, of Hull, Engineer; b. Barrow-in-Furness, 19 Oct. 1886; educ. Constable Street Council School, Hull; joined the Navy in 1904; served on H.M.S. Assistance; went to India on H.M.S. Renown, with King George (then Prince of Wales); served on H.M.S. Glasgow, on her first Commission, and on H.M.S. Fearless; transferred to the Good Hope on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. and was lost when that ship was sunk in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. His brother-in-law, Joseph Williams, was lost on the Cressy (see his notice).

WIGMORE, JAMES EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12112, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILCOX, PERCY JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I., 10304 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 929), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILDE, REGINALD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5463 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILDMAN, HERBERT ARTHUR, Rifleman, No. 2970, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Wildman, of 1, Stanhope Road, North Finchley, by his wife, Florence May, dau. of Joseph Evans; b. Pulloxhill, co. Bedford, 30 May, 1894; educ. Christ Church School, Finchley, N.; was a Postman at Whetstone; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Post Office Rifles, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 25 May, 1915, after being reported missing since 22 May. Buried at Festubert; unm.

WILFRID, WILLIAM, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILGRESS, GEORGE KESTEVEN KORTRIGHT, Lieut., 21st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Arthur Trollope Wilgress, King’s Printer for Ontario, formerly Publisher and Editor of the Brockville Times, Brockville, Ontario, by his wife, Meta Carleton, dau. of the late George Acheson, of Tandragee, Ireland; b. Clarksburg, P. Ontario, Canada, 25 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Albans School, Brockville (Headmaster, Rev. F. G. Orchard, formerly of Bromsgrove, England); served on the Canadian Government Geodetic Survey in Western Canada, and also with the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey of their system north of Lake Superior; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and was gazetted Lieut. 15 Sept. 1914; came over with the second Canadian contingent in May, 1915; went to France in Sept. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 27 Nov. 1915; unm. Buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, near Ypres. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 15 June, 1916] by Sir Douglas Haig, for gallant and distinguished conduct in rescuing wounded under heavy rifle fire at short range, and his commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. (now Brig.-Gen.) W. St. Pierre Hughes, wrote: “George’s death was a very severe blow to the whole Battn. There was not an officer, non-com. or man in the whole lot who did not respect, love and admire him. He was kindness itself, thoughtful of others to an extreme degree, and always prompt, careful, thorough and in all ways efficient. He was a soldier and a gentleman always. His heroic acts, performed only two hours before he was killed, have stamped him as one of the few. He knew no fear and feared no foe. He loved his men and they adored him.” At St. Albans School he was head boy and captain of the school, and also of the football team, and exercised a very strong influence for good by reason of his outstanding character.

WILKENS, HENRY EDWARD, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 608), 144292, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILKINS, ALFRED, Private, No. 730, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action at Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915.

WILKINS, ARTHUR JOHN, Sergt., No. 6826, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Cornelius Wilkins, of Strathmore, Alberta, Canada; enlisted 27 June, 1906; became L.-Corpl. 10 Sept. 1908; Corporal 17 Aug. 1912; L.-Sergt. 21 Jan. 1913, and Sergt. 22 Oct. 1914; served in Egypt 11 Oct. 1909 to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 22 Oct. 1914; killed in action at Cuinchy, 2 Feb. 1915; unm.

WILKINS, BERT, Sergt., No. S/9851, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, &c.; killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915; unm.

WILKINS, FREDERICK JOHN, Private, No. 6787, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick James Wilkins, of Towtree, Burghill, co. Hereford, Farmer and Licensed Victualler, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Robert (and Mary) Sutton; b. Malvern, 22 Jan. 1882; educ. County Council School, Burghill; was a Chimneystack Builder; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 30 May, 1906; served in Egypt 31 Oct. 1907 to 23 March, 1911, and obtained his discharge in 1913; rejoined his old regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, and subsequent engagements, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 7 Feb. 1915, being shot through the head by a sniper while effecting the rescue of a wounded comrade on the morning after his coy. had cleared the Brickfields of the Germans at the point of the bayonet; unm. He was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery.

WILKINS, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., 9557 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1512), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILKINS, HARRY, E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 152465, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILKINS, HENRY JOHN, Private, No. 8896, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Frederick Wilkins, of 8, Collingbourne Ducis, Marlborough, co. Wilts, Woodman, by his wife, Helen, eldest dau. of George Bulpits; b. Collingbourne, 5 June, 1890; educ. C.E. School there; was employed at the Army Ordnance Stores, Tidworth, enlisted in the Coldstreams, 25 Oct. 1910; obtained his discharge, and joined the Reserve in Oct. 1913, with an excellent character from his Company Officer; rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went straight to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force; was wounded 21 Oct. 1914, and was in hospital in France until Jan. following, when he returned to the firing line, and was killed in the trenches at Cuinchy, 16 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried near La Bassée.

WILKINS, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, No. 10723, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of George Wilkins, of 59, Waterloo Street, Leamington, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Hortin; b. Leamington, co. Warwick, 11 Sept. 1894; educ. St. Peter’s R.C. School there; was a Dairyman; joined the 7th Warwickshire Territorials about Jan. 1911; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 2 May, 1914; went to France 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

WILKINSON, CHARLES, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 4170, 1st Battn., Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest s. of Charles Wilkinson, of Stonebridge Park, by his wife Maria, dau. of (—) Churchill; b. Stonebridge Park, Middlesex; educ. there; enlisted 13 April, 1894, and became L.-Corpl. 16 March, 1899; Corpl. 1 April, 1900; L.-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1902; Sergt. 1 April, 1902; Col.-Sergt. 26 Sept. 1911, and Coy. Sergt.-Major 29 Nov. 1913; served in Gibraltar, 3 Oct. 1896 to 16 Jan. 1898; with the Soudan Expedition, 17 Jan. to 2 Oct. 1898 (Queen’s medal, Khedeval medal); during the occupation of Crete, 3 Oct. 1898 to 17 April, 1899; in South Africa, 16 Sept. 1899 to 6 April, 1903; including the actions at Belmont and the Modder River and the subsequent operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); in the Mauritius, 7 April, 1903, to 8 Feb. 1906; in India, 9 Feb. 1906 to 11 March, 1907, and again 4 Sept. 1908 to 11 Nov. 1913; took part in the operations in the Mohmand Country, N.W. Frontier, 1908 (India General Service medal with clasp); present at Delhi Durbar, 1911 (medal); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders 15 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914; including the retreat from Mons, and was killed at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Major H. R. Sandilands wrote: “Sergt.-Major Wilkinson belonged to the finest type of British non-commissioned officers, keen, smart and straight as a die, he was loved and trusted equally by the officers and the men in the ranks of the regt. in whose welfare he was so keenly interested, and in whose service he died. ‘Wilkie’ will ever be held in affectionate remembrance by all who had the privilege of serving with him.” While in India Wilkinson was for nearly five years Officers’ Mess Sergt. and was afterwards Chief Warder in Military Prison at Mauritius. He had also the silver medal for good conduct and long service. He m. at Trinity Church, Karachi, India, 9 Dec. 1908, Maud (88, Yerbury Road, Tufnell Park, N.), dau. of Charles Mockridge, of Upper Holloway, and had three sons: Stanley Charles, b. Rawal Pindi, India, 3 Nov. 1909; Douglas Reginald, b. Mhow, Central India, 6 Oct. 1912; and Charles Frank St. George, b. (posthumous) 2 Nov. 1914.

WILKINSON, FRANK LEE, Gunner, No. 71456, 47th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of Francis Lee Wilkinson, of 8, Little Lockwood Street, Wincolmlee, Hull, Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Wakefield; b. Hull, 10 May, 1895; educ. Lincoln Street Board School there; joined R.F.A. 5 Dec. 1912; went to France 19 Aug. 1914, and died at No. 10 General Hospital, Rouen, 1 Oct. following, of wounds received on 20 Sept. at the Battle of the Marne; unm. The Rev. C. M. Chavasse, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “I write to tell you all I know of the last hours of your son, who died in hospital here on 1 Oct. His was rather a sad experience, but patiently borne. He had received a gunshot wound in the right arm during the Battle of the Marne on Sunday, 20 Sept., and arrived in hospital here on Thursday, 24 Sept. He was wonderfully good and patient and brave, and lay very quietly in the corner bed of the hospital tent. There was always a smile from him whenever I came to see him, and I do not think anyone realised how bad he was through his bravery. He was a very good boy, too, and, as he told me once, never forgot his prayers, and was trusting in our Lord Jesus Christ. He ought to have gone home on a hospital ship on the 30th, but another operation was necessary, which prevented this. This was a sad disappointment to him, but again no one could have been braver or more patient. And then on the 1st came the sudden collapse. I was suddenly fetched to his side in the morning, and had just time to whisper a prayer in his ear and to feel him squeeze my hand when he became unconscious, and very peacefully passed away at 2.15 p.m.” He was buried the next day in the Cemetery in the Sepulchre des Rouen (Grave No. 58).

WILKINSON, JOHN ROTHES MARLOW, B.A., Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. Henry Marlow Wilkinson, Vicar of Milford, Lymington, Hants, by his wife, Florence Amy (Milford Corner, Milford-on-Sea), dau. of the late John Kemp-Welch, of Sopley Park, Hants; b. the Vicarage, Milford-on-Sea, 17 Oct. 1887; educ. Winchester College, and Worcester College, Oxford (1907–1911, B.A., Capt. of the College Boat Club); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex, 22 March, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 10 Oct. 1913; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Oburg, near Mons, on the 23rd; unm. A Private of C Coy., 4th Middlesex, wrote: “On Sunday, 23 Aug., we were entrenched in front of a convent, when Capt. ... gave Lieut. Wilkinson an order to take half his platoon (two sections) to reinforce ‘A’ Coy. This Coy. was at the left of our position and was being hard pressed. We took up position under heavy fire at a group of houses. Your son went into one of the houses, and was heard directing the fire of his two sections through the skylight in the roof. He directed his fire so well that he forced the Germans to retire from his front. It was from this house that he saw overwhelming numbers of Germans coming through the wood to his front. The Germans came on again until they were within 200 yards. Lieut. Wilkinson then came out of the house into the trench. It was here that he got the order to retire. He got the order twice, but would not take it, as he thought it was not an official order. Eventually he got the order from the G.O.C. to retire. It was then I noticed he was limping. To retire we had to go through barbed wire; here we got separated owing to the heavy shell and rifle fire. I am very sorry to say that I was the only man of those two sections to get away from that place. No officers could give me any information of Lieut. Wilkinson. I reported to the C.O. what had happened and told him that Lieut. Wilkinson was a very brave man. He replied, ‘Yes, I know that, and I am very sorry to have lost him.’... I must say your son was a man in every sense of the word. I think he was as brave a gentleman as one could meet here. I told this to Capt.... I think I have an idea of a brave officer, as I went through the South African War and have eight clasps to my medal.”

WILKINSON, LEONARD RICHARD, Rifleman, No. 2240, C Coy., 1/9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Henry Wilkinson, of Star Mills, Paper Maker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William E. Pepper; b. Camberwell, 22 Dec. 1890; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was killed in action during the severe fighting for Hill 60, near Ypres, on 24 April, 1915; unm.

WILKINSON, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6945), S.S. 101506, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLAN, SAMUEL, Private, No. 11727, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Lancaster; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Cuinchy, 3 Feb. 1915.

WILLETS, FREDERICK, Private, No. 7965, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Arthur Willetts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennett; b. Aston, Birmingham, 7 Aug. 1883; educ. Vicarage Road there; was employed as a Stove Fitter; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 13 Feb. 1902; served three years with the Colours and nine years in the Reserve; went to the Front, Aug. 1914; was wounded and taken a prisoner at Haines, and died a prisoner of war at Erfurt, Germany, 16 Feb. 1915, and was buried there. He m. at Aston, Birmingham, 1907, Nellie (No. 2, Back, 119, Park Road, Aston, Birmingham), dau. of William Whadauck, and had a son, Frederick, b. 26 Jan. 1908.

WILLIAMS, ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3806 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIAMS, ALBERT ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4015), 218031, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIAMS, ARTHUR MONTAGU, Solicitor, Lieut. Machine Gun Section, 7th (Robin Hood) Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.) (T.F.), only s. of the late Arthur Williams, of 109, Forest Road, Nottingham, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Thomas Morley, of 46, Addison Street, Nottingham; b. Nottingham, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Nottingham Boys’ High School; served his articles with Capt. J. A. H. Green, admitted a Solicitor in 1905, and was in practice in Nottingham and had lately been a partner in the firm of Messrs. Browne, Son & Williams. He had joined the Robin Hoods as a private on leaving school in 1900, and became a 2nd Lieut. when the Territorial Act came into operation, and was gazetted Lieut. 8 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered with the Battn. for foreign service, went to France, 25 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 15 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in Kemmel Churchyard. One of his men (Private T. Linney, 1867) wrote: “On the night of 15 June, 1915, at about 9.30 p.m. the Germans thought to make a surprise attack on our trenches south of Ypres, by first of all blowing up our trenches and then by violently bombarding our position by artillery and hand grenades. The 8th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, were in the trenches at the time, and were expecting to be relieved that night by the 7th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, this accounting for the officers of the 7th being in the trenches in the afternoon to view the positions. After the violent bombardment the Germans tried to charge the trench, and this being the first severe attack the 8th Battn. had been in they did not know which way to turn or what to do; already they had lost a large number of men and officers and were naturally panic stricken, when Lieut. Williams came to the rescue. Already he had been to fetch a wounded officer, Lieut. Dobson, in, and seen him safe; when the Germans stormed the trenches, he gathered the men together, and by his cool manner and words made a desperate stand against the coming onslaught; the Germans had got as far as the barbed wire, when Lieut. Williams shouted to the men “Come on men, if we’ve got to die, we will die fighting,” this put new life into the men and by desperate fighting the Germans were driven back, but Lieut. Williams, who had saved the situation at such a critical time, was killed instantaneously, by part of a shell fracturing his skull”; and Capt. G. H. Stubington: “It was after dark and he had just gone into the trenches which the Robin Hoods were taking over from the 8th Battn. when Lieut. Dobson of the 8th Battn. was wounded by a shell. Arthur went to help him when another shell exploded and killed them both instantly. He died on duty and I need not tell you how much we feel his loss. He was a most efficient officer and also in my case a close personal friend; I have, as you are aware, known him for years and as far as Machine Gun work is concerned, I feel that I have lost my right hand man.... The Officer Commanding desires me to add that the Battn. has suffered a great loss by his death, and he will be very much missed by all ranks to whom he had endeared himself, and especially by his brother officers.” Lieut. Williams, who was a Freeman of the City of Nottingham by birth, had taken his Musketry and Machine Gun Course and had qualified as an Instructor of Musketry. He was a member of, and played for, the Notts. Amateur Cricket Club; was for some time Secretary of the Nottingham Children’s Hospital and Hon. Secretary of the Red Cross for Notts, and was a member of the Newstead Lodge of Freemasons.

WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN, Private, No. 9600, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Williams, of 25ct., 7h, Cheapside, Birmingham; b. Perry Barr, co. Stafford, 7 July, 1894; educ. Rea Street Board School, Birmingham; was a Metal Spinner, Simplex, Salop Street, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 11 May, 1912; went to France 14 Aug. 1914, and was accidentally drowned in Cuinchy Canal, 4 Aug. 1915, while on active service; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Givenchy.

WILLIAMS, CHARLES, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 370), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIAMS, FREDERICK LEONARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3177), S.S. 622, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIAMS, GEORGE JACKSON, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of David Jones Williams, of Rhydwen, Barnsley, member of the firm of Williams Bros., Ltd., Coal Exporters, by his wife, Dinah, dau. of the late George Jackson, Mining Engineer; b. Royston, co. York, 6 Feb. 1895; educ. High School, Barnsley and Rydal Mount, Colwyn Bay, and on leaving there entered his father’s office in Paris. When war broke out he was in England on a short holiday and he immediately volunteered and joined the 5th Reserve Battn. of the York and Lancaster Regt. under Lieut.-Col. Mitchell and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Sept. 1914. Being anxious to get to the front he transferred to the 1st/5th Battn. under Lieut.-Col. Fox (which had volunteered for foreign service) and while training with it at Sheffield contracted rheumatism and developed endocarditis from which he died at Barnsley, 27 April, 1915; unm.

WILLIAMS, GEORGE JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14241 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIAMS, HAROLD, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIAMS, HERBERT CHARLES, Corpl., No. 10080, 2nd Battn. King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regt., yst. but one of the six soldier sons of Ellis Williams, of Hanmer Place, Bowerham, Lancaster, ex Qr.-Mr.-Sergt. of the same regt. (with which he served for 25 years), by his wife, Eliza Mary, dau. of Henry Studd, late of the R.A.M.C.; b. the Barracks, Lancaster, 2 April, 1895; educ. Bowerham School; enlisted as a drummer in the King’s Own at Lancaster, 3 May, 1909, and joined his battn. in Jersey, subsequently accompanying it to India. He came home with it in Dec. 1914, and on 15 Jan. went to the Front. He was severely wounded on 16 March, 1915, while placing sand bags to repair front of trenches by Ypres, and died in hospital at Bailleul. His comrade, Band Sergt. J. A. Nichol, wrote: “He passed peacefully away at 6.15 a.m. this morning, 23 March. I was with him throughout, and I’m writing this letter for Lloyd, his brother, who is very much upset. The remains will be interred to-morrow at 9 a.m. in the cemetery there, and I’ll be there to put some token of love on his grave for you and the family.” His two elder brothers, Coy Qr.-Mr.-Sergt. Ellis Watkin Williams and Sergt. John Henry Williams of the 1st Battn. of the King’s Own were wounded in the retreat from Mons, the latter, now a prisoner at Doberitz, very severely. The third, Sergt. Lloyd Williams, suffered from shell concussion and is now (1916) in Egypt. Rifleman Reginald Williams, the fourth, belongs to the King’s Liverpool Regt., and the fifth and last son, Private Percival Williams, is in the Army Service Corps.

WILLIAMS, HUBERT LESLIE, Trooper, No. 13/258, 11th North Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Harry Edwin Williams, of Parua Bay, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, Harriet Mary, dau. of the late Henry Morey; b. at Parua Bay, 23 Nov. 1892; educ. there; and entered the Army, 15 Aug. 1914, being one of the first to enlist from Parua Bay at the outbreak of war. Killed in action at Walker Ridge, Gallipoli, during a night attack, 26 May, 1915, buried there. The circumstances of his death are told as follows in a letter from a comrade to his mother: “A mate of mine, H. L. Williams, was dragging me to put me in a hole out of the firing line after I was shot down that awful night, he had stopped for a minute to give me a drop of water out of his bottle, had just dropped on his knees, when a bullet struck him in the breast, he fell over me, he put his hand in mine and said ‘good-bye old fellow, good luck to you, I’m fixed.’ And so he died without a move, good fellow that he was.”

WILLIAMS, IDRIS HAVARD JOSEPH, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 4th s. of the late Morgan Stuart Williams, of Aberpergwm, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Josephine (9, Stratford Place, W.), dau. of William Herbert, of Clytha, Monmouthshire, and nephew of the late Capt. George Williams, Frontier Light Horse, who was killed in the Zulu War; b. Aberpergwm, 29 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and was promoted Lieut. 26 March, 1904, and Capt. 29 Jan. 1910; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, died at Boulogne, 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres; buried at St. Donat’s Castle; unm.

WILLIAMS, JETHROE, L.-Corpl., No. 6074, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Cabel Williams, of High Street, Cheltenham, Market Gardener; b. Leigh, near Cheltenham, 5 Dec. 1885; educ. there; enlisted 21 Jan. 1905; was appointed L.-Corpl. 10 Oct. 1914; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 28 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. following, of wounds received in action. He m. at Fulham, 22 Sept. 1906, Evelyn May (8, Station Road, Maldon, Essex), dau. of Robert Everett Coney Weston, of Bury St. Edmunds, and had a dau., Edith Josephine, b. 20 April, 1907.

WILLIAMS, JOHN NATHANIEL, Private, No. 12/484, 6th (Hauraki) Auckland Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force (formerly Capt., 4th Dorsets (T.F.)), elder s. of Col. Sir Robert Williams, of Bridehead, Dorchester, 1st Bt., M.P., by his wife, Rosa Walker, dau. of Nathaniel Sims, of Strood Park, Horsham; b. London, W., 24 Jan. 1878; educ. Matfield, Kent; Eton, and New College, Oxford; was for some time in the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Dorsetshire Regt., becoming Capt., but resigned his commission and went to New Zealand in 1910. On the outbreak of war enlisted as a Private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe that day; unm. Major-Gen. Sir A. I. Godley, K.C.M.G., C.B., Commanding New Zealand Forces, wrote: “He was killed leading and setting a most gallant example to the men in the forefront of the Battn., and all the officers, N.C.O.’s and men of the company speak of him in the highest terms of admiration and affection. He had evidently made himself most popular with them and respected by all, and had he not fallen he would have been given a commission in this force immediately after the first action. I believe the example which he set in enlisting, and dying as he did in the ranks, has done more for this force and perhaps for the Empire than he would have done as a commissioned officer.”

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH, Chief Yeoman of Signals, R.N., No. Ch./206951, 4th s. of the late Edward Williams, of Hull, Chemist, by his wife, Betsy Ann, dau. of Henry Hollingsworth, of Hull, Chemist; b. Hull, 25 Feb. 1883; educ. Boulevard Higher Grade School, Hull, joined the Navy in Feb. 1899; served on H.M. ships, Perseus, 1905–8; Jason, 1908–10; Shannon, 1910–12; and R.F.A. Maine, 1912–14, and was studying for an examination for warrant officer when war was declared; joined H.M.S. Cressy and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Boulevard Baptist Church, Hull, 8 Sept. 1910, Agnes Mary (28, Redbourne Street, Boulevard, Hull), sister of James Albert Forgan Wighton, R.N. (lost in the action off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), and only dau. of the late James Brown Wighton, and had two children; Joseph Albert, b. 8 Sept. 1914; and Catherine Marian, b. 23 Aug. 1912.

WILLIAMS, MERVYN JAMES, Colour Sergt.-Major, No. 6854, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of John Williams, of Blackrock, by his wife, Ellen Dorcas, dau. of James Watts, of Grove Avenue, Blackrock; b. Blackrock, co. Dublin, 21 June, 1882; educ. Booterstown School there; enlisted Jan. 1910; served in South Africa, Egypt, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 24 Aug. 1914 to 16 May, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Festubert; unm.

WILLIAMS, OWEN, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 6104), 297624, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIAMS, SYDNEY ERNEST, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4202, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class, 299881, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WILLIAMS, TOM JAMES, Private, No. 11050, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Welsh Regt., s. of George Williams, of Ffosyfedwen, Velindre, Henllan, Flannel Weaver, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Evans; b. Ffrontywann, 15 Nov. 1894; educ. National School, Velindre. He enlisted in the Welsh Regt. in Dec. 1913, was in training with the 2nd Battn. in Hampshire when the war broke out, and was soon afterwards sent out to France. There he was a driver in the transport section of his regt., till he contracted rheumatic fever, lying for some weeks in hospital at Le Havre, and then returning to England on three weeks’ leave. At the appointed time he reported himself at Cardiff Barracks, and was in a few days on his way back to France again, to join the 1st Battn. He served with them for three months, and was killed in action, being shot in a bayonet charge, at Zillebeke, 25 May, 1915; unm. His brother, Private William Williams, is now (1916) serving with the Devons.

WILLIAMS, WALTER KENT, M.V.O., Engineer-Capt., R.N., 2nd s. of William Philips Williams, Journalist, some time of the South Wales Daily News, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Manoah Kent; b. St. Davids, co. Pembroke, 24 Oct. 1863; educ. Proprietary School, Cardiff, and Royal Naval College, Keyham, Devonport; entered the Navy as Assistant Engineer, 1 July, 1885; promoted Engineer, 2 April, 1887; Chief Engineer, 1 Aug. 1897; Engineer-Commander, 1 Aug. 1901, and Engineer-Capt., 1 Jan. 1912. While serving as Engineer in the Blanche, 1893, he landed with the Naval Brigade from H.M. ships Blanche, Swallow, and Sparrow under Commander Lindley to punish a robber chief, Fumo Omari, for various acts of treachery. The fortified strongholds at Puwani and Jongeni were stormed and captured. Capt. Williams was awarded the general Africa medal (Vitu, Aug. 1893 clasp) for these services. He was Engineer at the Royal Osborne College at the time the present Prince of Wales and his brother were students there, and for his services was awarded the M.V.O. in Oct. 1910. He afterwards served for a period ashore at Portsmouth, and on the outbreak of war was appointed on the staff of the Bulwark, and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

WILLIAMS, WALTER ROLAND, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7279, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 1218, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Edwin James Williams, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Roberts; b. Plymouth, 24 Oct. 1889; educ. there; joined the 3rd London Regt. in July, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to Malta in Sept.; was sent to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, being shot through the head in an attack on the German trenches; unm.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4468), S.S. 103409, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADDAMS-WILLIAMS, DONALD ARTHUR, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. (Service) South Wales Borderers, only s. of the Rev. Herbert Addams-Williams, Rector of Llangibby, co. Monmouth, by his wife, Grace, dau. of Thomas Royse Lysaght; b. Llangibby Rectory, 28 April, 1896; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and Marlborough College, where he was in the O.T.C., and joined the Public Schools Battn. immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the South Wales Borderers, 18 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles 29 June, and was killed in action there, 11 Aug. 1915, after the advance from Anzac. Capt. A. W. Hooper wrote: “I am the only officer left out of the five who came out with the coy., and was in hospital wounded when Arthur was killed; hence I am somewhat handicapped, but I have spoken to Arthur’s platoon sergt. several times about the sad incident, and he has given me several little details about it. A covering party was sent forward to clear the enemy away from some wells from whence they had been sniping our troops for three or four days. This party was also to act as a screen to keep the enemy from advancing, or firing, while the remainder of our battn. went forward and dug themselves in, in an advanced position. Arthur, with his platoon, commanded a portion of this covering party, more of the enemy were found near the wells than was anticipated, and our covering party lost rather heavily. However, they nobly did their work, and kept the enemy back while the new trenches were being dug. Arthur was absolutely fearless, and always very cheerful in the trenches. He took his men forward, and had not advanced far before he was hit; he went on and presently was hit a second time, but where each of the first two shots struck him his sergt. did not know. However, being twice wounded, he continued to command his platoon, encouraging all of the men, and showing them a noble example by his own heroism, and disregard of self. A little time afterwards, while still advancing, he was wounded a third time. He turned completely round, and must have died within a few seconds. His sergt. knelt by him as he died, and has told me since that his death was a grand one to see. The sergt. had to leave him, to take charge of the platoon, and when the covering party retired his body was not seen. Several times Sergt. Worthington, his platoon sergt., volunteered to go forward and look for it, but the Turks were now holding that ground in very strong numbers, and it would have meant a further sacrifice of life to send a search party out; therefore his body, and those of two other officers who died the same evening, was never recovered. His death meant a great loss to his men, who thought so highly of him, to the whole coy., and also to myself, who found him an ever-cheerfull and lovable friend.” Nearly three months afterwards, during a reconnaisance, Lieut. Curtis, of the Northamptonshire Regt., discovered his body, and had it brought back to South Wales Borderers Valley, where it was buried in the little Military Cemetery on 3 Nov. 1915.

DE COURCY-WILLIAMS, ALMERICUS JOHN FALKINER (ERIC), 2nd Lieut. 5th, attd. 4th, Battn. Middlesex Regt., only s. of John Almericus de Courcy-Williams, of St. Etchens, Killucan, co. Westmeath, M.A., M.B., B.Ch. T.C.D., by his wife Frideswide Catherine Emily, dau. of Robert Smyth, Portlick Castle, Athlone, J.P., and grandson of Surgeon-Major John William Williams, of Killucan, co. Westmeath, M.A., M.D., by his wife, Emily Letitia, née de Courcy, sister of Michael William, 32nd Lord Kingsale; b. Greenhills, Killucan, 4 May, 1895; educ. Roysses School, Abingdon, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. West India Regt., July, 1914; transferred to the Middlesex Regt., 20 Aug. 1914; went to France with the 4th Battn., 6 Sept.; took part in the fighting at Septmouts near Soissons, 14 Sept.; joined the 1st Battn. at Venizel, but returned to the 4th Battn. at Courcelles, 1 Oct.; took part in the march from the Aisne to Vieille-Chapelle, and the battle there, 12–15 Oct. where he was the only officer in his coy. not wounded, and died at Bethune, 21 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action two miles from Aubers while commanding his coy. in the front line of trenches, the previous day, during the First Battle of Ypres. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His Colonel wrote: “He was such a promising boy, and we were all proud of him and shall miss him much.” Another officer wrote: “I can tell you all ranks were very sorry, as he was a brave soldier and was a great favourite with all, and likely to have a bright army career.” A wounded soldier who was in the trenches with Lieut. de Courcy-Williams said that he frequently exposed himself to danger while exhorting his men not to waste ammunition, but to shoot straight. He was fatally wounded while aiming a rifle in the trenches trying to get a sniper who was picking off his men, and his last words were, “Men, give it them.”

WILLIAMSON, ALBERT JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, Ch. 154287, R.F.R., B. 1366, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WILLIAMSON, DAVID MILLAR, Petty Officer, 216842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIAMSON, FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class, 302086, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIAMSON, PETER, Private, No. 881, 12th Battn. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Matthew Williamson, of Ollaberry, Shetland; Seaman; b. Edinburgh, 29 March, 1891; educ. Ollaberry, and Lerwick, Shetland; went to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, and died on board H.M.S. Delta, 9 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action there. Buried at sea. He m. at Edinburgh, Jessie, dau. of (—) Sutherland, of Latheron, Crofter, and had three children: Peter, b. ——; Lizzie, b. 5 Jan. 1893, and Maggie, b. 30 Nov. 1894.

WILLIAMSON, ROBERT, Private, No. 14054, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Voorstraat, 30 Jan. 1915.

WILLIAMSON, ROBERT HAMILTON, 2nd Lieut., 118th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, only surv. s. of Dr. George Williamson, of 256, Union Street, Aberdeen, by his wife, Constance, dau. of A. H. Gunn; b. Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. Glenalmond, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (City of Aberdeen) Battery, 1st Highland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), June, 1911, and promoted Lieut. ... June, 1913. After being attd. for a year to a Regular Battery of Field Artillery, he gained a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery at the Military Competitive Examination in April, 1914, and was gazetted to the 118th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., 10 June following. He left for France early in Nov. 1914, and died in the Allied Force Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Dec. 1914, of wounds received at Fauquissart, near Laventie, on the 6th, while making a sketch of the enemy’s position for his battery from an advanced observation post in a ruined church tower; unm. Buried Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen. The commanding officer, 8th Brigade of Heavy Artillery, in which he served, wrote: “I had a great personal liking for him and thought very highly of him, both professionally and as regards his general disposition and demeanour with his other brother officers and the men, who all liked him;” and the officer commanding his battery wrote: “I shall never forget your boy, either for his own personal qualities or for what he had done for the battery.”

WILLINGALE, SIDNEY GEORGE, Petty Officer (N.S.), 197386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIS, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12561, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILLIS, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3672), 160183, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILLIS, WILLIAM BRIAN DE LAVAL, Corpl., No. 12289, 3rd Auckland Regt. (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the Ven. William Newcombe de Laval Willis, formerly for 35 years Vicar of Cambridge and Archdeacon of Waikato, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary Agnes, dau. of the late G. H. Clarke, of Micheldever, Hants, England; b. the Vicarage, Cambridge, New Zealand, 17 May, 1888; educ. the Cambridge District High School and St. John’s Collegiate School, Auckland; entered the Survey Department of the New Zealand Government in Feb. 1906. When war broke out in Aug. 1914, he obtained leave to temporarily resign his post and enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Auckland Regt., of which he was immediately made Corpl. He left New Zealand with the First Expeditionary Force 16 Oct. 1914, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at Gaba Tepe on April 25 and for 10 days was in the thick of the fight. On May 5 when re-embarking with 400 others for Cape Helles he was shot in the lungs. After considerable delay he reached Alexandria on 10 May, but died at the Deaconess Hospital there two days later; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Alexandria. His Colonel (Plugge) was near him when wounded, and helped temporarily to dress his wounds. Writing subsequently, he described him as “an ideal soldier, and as plucky as could be,” and said also that “he had done magnificent work.” One of his comrades wrote: “You would feel proud if you could hear the way all his men spoke of him, and they all said the same.” The Prime Minister of New Zealand writing as Minister of Lands said, “As an officer of the Lands and Survey Department he showed the greatest promise, and his assiduity to his responsible duties occasions a great loss not only to the Public Service, but also to the Dominion.” The Under-Secretary wrote also “His record in the Department was of the highest.” In the district in which he was last engaged in survey work, a public movement was made, and a memorial brass erected in the Manganui Hospital, and a number of beds attached to the Memorial.

WILLS, GEORGE EDWARD LEONARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11282, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

EARDLEY-WILMOT, FREDERICK LAWRENCE, Lieut., Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., only s. of Col. Arthur Eardley-Wilmot, of Westernlea, Westward Ho! and Hales Hall, Cheadle, co. Staffordshire, late R.F.A., by his wife, Mary Blanche, only dau. of Clement Thomas Sneyd-Kynnersley, of Loxley Park, and Highfields, co. Stafford, and grandson of Major-Gen. Frederick Marrow Eardley-Wilmot, R.A. [2nd son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Bart.]; b. Portsmouth, 25 Feb. 1895; educ. Cheltenham and Toronto University (Oct. 1913 to Aug. 1914); volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted Lieut., P.P.C.L.I. 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; was appointed Machine Gun Officer, Feb.; went to France when his regt. joined the 20th Brigade (27th Division), and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi, 18 March, 1915; unm.

WILMSHURST, WILLIAM JESSE, Driver, No. 826, 1/3rd Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers (T.F.), eldest s. of Jesse Wilmshurst, of 15, Standen Street, St. John’s, Tunbridge Wells, Engine Steerer for Kelsey’s, brewers, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Charles Hallett; b. Tunbridge Wells, 3 Sept. 1895; educ. at St. John’s Boys’ School there; was working at Kelsey’s, brewers, when mobilised; joined the Kent (Fortress) R.E. Oct. 1911; left England for the Dardanelles, and was drowned on H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915, when that ship was sunk in the Ægean Sea; unm. Major Ruston, himself saved from the ship, wrote: “The whole event was so sudden and so unexpected, and the time the Hythe remained afloat after the collision was so short, that it is practically impossible to say what happened to individual men. Many of the drivers must have been injured in the collision, as the other vessel struck their part of our vessel, and brought down our foremast.... From what I know of the drivers, and your son in particular, I am sure he died bravely.” His brother, Albert Edward Wilmshurst, was also on the Hythe, but was rescued.

WILSON, ALBERT PATTERSON, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6304), 224462, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WILSON, ALLAN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9740), 205388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILSON, DOUGLAS HENRY VERNON, Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. s. of the late Charles Pooley Wilson, formerly Lieut. Indian Navy, and Principal Officer of the Board of Trade, London District, by his wife, Claudia Wilson (Highland Road, Upper Norwood, S.E.), dau. of James T. Secretan; b. Upper Norwood, 19 Dec. 1885; educ. Dulwich College and H.M.S. Britannia (where he won Champion Featherweight Cup in Boxing, Aug. 1901); entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. Formidable, 15 Sept. 1901, became Midshipman, 30 Nov. 1901; Sub-Lieut. 30 April, 1905; and Lieut. 1 Oct. 1907; served the whole of her first commission on H.M.S. Formidable on Mediterranean Station; when Lieut. on H.M.S. Venus attended Mr. Winston Churchill as A.D.C. to Mombasa, and on the same ship went to Quebec for the Tercentenary Festival in 1908; appointed to H.M.S. Glory 30 Oct. 1913; transferred to H.M.S. Bulwark 29 July, 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness on the morning of 26 Nov. following. He m. at Weymouth, 17 Oct. 1914, Evelyn Maud, dau. of Thomas Charles Hooman, of Lilliput, Dorset; s.p.

WILSON, EDWARD HENRY, Rifleman, No. 2056, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Henry Edward Wilson, of 45, Durham Road, East Finchley, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Robert Pritty; b. Tufnell Park, N., 17 May, 1895; educ. Owen’s School, Islington, and on leaving school, entered the Head Office of the London City and Midland Bank; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria’s Rifles, Aug. 1914; left for France 4 Nov. following, being attached to the machine-gun section of his battn.; took part in the capture of Hill 60, when the machine-gun section of the Q.V.R.’s rendered excellent service; and was killed in action by shell fire near Wieltje, at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the garden of a cottage 200 yards S.E. Battn. H.Q., Wieltje. His officer, Lieut. Brian Fargus, who was himself killed on New Year’s Day, wrote in Dec. 1914: “Wilson accompanies me voluntarily whenever I go out on a prowl round the lines or up to some dangerous point. He knows no fear and has turned himself into my bodyguard; he is a splendid fellow and I think no end of him.” And the Sergt. in charge of the machine-gun section wrote of his fearlessness of danger and conscientious attention to duty, and of the very good work he had done at Hill 60. He was a member of the Blackheath Harriers and had won a number of prizes at athletic meetings; he was also a keen cricketer and football player and an enthusiastic yachtsman.

WILSON, ENNIS NORMAN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9005), 196524, H.M.S. Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILSON, ERNEST, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WILSON, EWEN HOLMES HUMPHREY JAMES, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), only s. of the late James Humphrey Wilson, of Shona, Ayr, by his wife, Katherine Campbell, dau. of John Gordon MacMillan; b. Ayr, 18 June, 1892; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 Feb. 1912; and promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1914; left for France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, his battn. forming part of the 1st Brigade, and was killed in action at Sablonnières during the Battle of the Marne, 8 Sept, following; unm. Buried at Sablonnières. His Major wrote: “His Coy. will miss him, and so do we all, as he had endeared himself to all his brother officers and comrades,” and a corpl. in his platoon: “He died leading the men who adored him.” At Harrow he played cricket and football for his house, and was a Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C. at Sandhurst.

WILSON, GEORGE, Stoker, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILSON, HARRY, Private, No. 1278, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 27 April 1915.

WILSON, HARRY, Leading Seaman, 233319, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILSON, HUGH STANLEY, 2nd Lieut., 8th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the Rev. James Maurice Wilson, D.D., Canon of Worcester, formerly Head Master of Clifton College, and afterwards Vicar of Rochdale and Archdeacon of Manchester, by his wife, Georgina Mary, dau. of the late Admiral John Talbot; b. at the School House, Clifton College, Bristol, 28 Nov. 1885; educ. Clifton College and King’s College, Cambridge; was an assistant Master at Rugby School; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 8th Worcesters as a Private in Aug. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., 29 Oct. following, and was killed in action in France, 14 Sept. 1915. Buried in the English Military Cemetery, Hébuterne, Pas de Calais, France; unm.

WILSON, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10493), S.S. 108189, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Wilson, of 63, Britannia Street, Belfast; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WILSON, JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. 15442), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WILSON, JOHN JOSEPH DEXTER, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27512 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Joseph Wilson, of 22, High Street, Waterloo, Pilsley, co. Derby; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WILSON, ROBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 7473, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WILSON, ROBERT SYM, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of the late Andrew Hay Wilson, Agent, Royal Bank of Scotland, Leith, by his wife, Anne Wood (11, Drummond Place, Edinburgh), dau. of Christopher Wood, of Leith; b. Leith, 17 Nov. 1876; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perth; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Seaforth Highlanders from the Militia, Dec 1897, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1899, and Capt. 11 April, 1902; served through the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Magersfontein (wounded); the operations in the Orange Free State, May 8 to Jan. 1901, and Jan. to March, 1902; those in the Cape Colony, Feb. and March, 1901, and Aug. 1901 to Jan. 1902, and in the Transvaal March to Aug. 1901, and March 31 to May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). Between 1907 and 1910 he was employed as Adjutant, first to the Volunteers and afterwards to the Territorial Force. On the outbreak of war Capt. Wilson was in India with his battn. He sailed for France with the Dehra Dun Brigade (Meerut Division) of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 8 Nov. following. He m. at Murrayfield, Midlothian, 5 Nov 1902, Harriet Evelyn (Hawthornbank, Murrayfield), 2nd dau. of the late Alfred William Pearce, of Broughty Ferry, and had three children: Andrew Ripley, b. 13 Jan. 1904; Ronald Christopher, b. 15 May, 1905; and Marjorie Anne, b. 25 July, 1912.

WILSON, SAMUEL OLSON, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9787), S.S. 2446, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WILSON, WILFRED, A.B., 212496, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWES-WILSON, GEORGE HUTTON, Capt., 4th Battn. The Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Bowes-Wilson, of Enterpen Hall, Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 April, 1877; educ. Clifton College, and New College, Oxford (B.A.); joined the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Yorkshires from the Volunteers on the organisation of the Territorial Force in 1907, and was promoted Capt. 1 March, 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; and was killed in action, near Ypres, 17 June, 1915. Buried at Vlamertinghe. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate, 29 Sept. 1908, Nora Dulcie, only child of the late Herbert Linney, and had a son, Maurice Desmond, b. 6 June, 1912, d. 17 March, 1915.

WIMHURST, ARTHUR DANIEL, Stoker, 1st Class, 364229, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WIMSETT, FREDERICK THOMAS, Private, No. 2280, 83rd Field Ambulance, 27th Division, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3rd s. of William George Wimsett, of 2, Hilda Terrace, Ham Hill, Snodland, co. Kent., by his wife, Emma, dau. of Richard May; b. Larkfield, 10 Dec. 1896; educ. Snodland National School; was working at Snodland Paper Mill; joined the Territorials 2 July, 1914, and was at his first training camp on Salisbury Plain when they were ordered to return, owing to the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, trained at Maidstone, Canterbury, Sittingbourne and Windsor; went to France, 6 March, 1915, and died in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 13 May, 1915, from a wound in the head, received while picking up the wounded on the 11th. He was buried in the English part of the Cemetery there.

WINDEBANK, ROBERT PERCY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4075), 190016, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WINFIELD, STUART JAMES, L.-Corpl., No. 9956, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of James Stratton Winfield, of 17, Boden Road, Gillingham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914.

WINDLE, JOHN, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, L. 2085, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WING, MATTHEW, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2016), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WINGATE, THOMAS PATERSON, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of the late Paterson Wingate, of Glasgow, Shipbuilder, by his wife, Jessie Crawford (18, Westbourne Terrace, Glasgow), dau. of John Bruce Murray, of Glasgow; b. Woodcroft, Glasgow, 7 Feb. 1877; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Glasgow University (B.Sc. 1899); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, then in India, 4 May, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1900, and Capt. 24 Jan. 1906; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps; took part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including actions at Rietfontein and Lombard’s Kop; the defence of Ladysmith, including action on 6 Jan. 1900; operations in Natal, March-June, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to March, 1901; and was Railway Staff Officer (graded Staff Lieut.), 4 May, 1900, to 4 May, 1901, and Military Landing Officer (graded Staff Capt.), 5 Sept. 1901, to 30 June, 1903 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. 1901], Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). At the close of the war he joined his regt. in India and returned with it to Glasgow; and from 9 March, 1912, to 9 March, 1915, was Adjutant to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. at the Depôt, Berwick-on-Tweed, and after mobilisation in Aug. 1914, at Portland. He went to France, 16 March, 1915, in charge of a draft for the 2nd Battn., which had formed part of the first Expeditionary Force (13th Brigade, 5th Division), and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915, the day after the 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers and the 1st West Kents had stormed the Hill; unm. Col. Sladen, D.S.O., commanding 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, himself wounded on this occasion, wrote: “He was such a brilliant soldier and such a good comrade in every way. His loss is a great loss to the regt., and the Army can ill afford to lose such as he was. Hill 60 has indeed taken a heavy toll of this regt.” And the following appeared in the Regimental Orders, 23 April, 1915: “It is with very great regret that the commanding officer has to announce to the battn. the death of Captain T. P. Wingate, the late Adjutant, who was killed in action on 18 April, 1915. In his magnificent soldierly qualities and his self-sacrificing devotion to duty the late Capt. Wingate has set a standard which all ranks may well endeavour to attain.”

WINGFIELD, JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class, 310594, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WINKS, LAWRENCE, Sergt., No. 11/457, 2nd Wellington Mounted Rifles, 5th s. of John Winks, of Hawera, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary Jane Amon, who was a dau. of the late Thomas Amon, of Rangitikei, N.Z.; b. Hawera, 19 Dec. 1891; educ. Normanby; enlisted the day following the declaration of war, 6 Aug. 1914, and died 6 June 1915, of wounds received in action during the fighting at No. 3 Port, Gallipoli, on 31 May; unm.

WINKWORTH, HARRY, Chief Ship’s Cook, 176650, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Stephen Winkworth, of 17, St. Clement Street, Winchester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WINMILL, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4702, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WINN, ARTHUR, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd. Suffolk Regt., only s. of Arthur Thomas Winn, of the Uplands, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Henry Hicks, of Weybridge, Surrey; b. Ewell, co. Surrey, 13 April, 1884; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Suffolk Territorials, April, 1902, and promoted Lieut., and Capt. 23 Aug. 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war; went to France, Aug. 1914, attd. to the 2nd Suffolks, and was killed in action near Soissons, 9 Sept. 1914; unm.

WINN, ROBERT CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9831), 213622, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WINN, THOMAS, Private, No. 12897, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Henry Winn, by his wife, Selina Harriet; b. 1873; enlisted 28 Sept. 1914, and died 29 June, 1915, in No. 23 General Hospital, Etables, of wounds received in action at France. He m. at St. Mark’s, Bow, E., 4 June, 1899, Emma (137, High Street, Homerton), dau. of Walter Elson, and had five children: Henry, b. 27 Jan. 1905; Selena, b. 12 Aug. 1902; Alice, b. 26 Jan. 1907; Martha, b. 6 Aug. 1909; and Caroline, b. 2 June, 1913, and d. 29 June, 1915.

WINSHIP, ERNEST, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25790, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WINSHIP, JOHN, Stoker (R.N.R.), V. 282, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WINTER, WILLIAM, A.B., 230420, H.M.S. Aboukir, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WINTERBOTTOM, JACK HUDSON, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26734 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WINTERSON, GEORGE, Private, No. 9876, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Winterson, of Weir Cottages, Chirton, near Devizes, by his wife, Ann; b. Chirton, co. Wilts, 8 Oct. 1894; educ. Patney School there; enlisted in the 3rd Battn., Wiltshire Regt. in 1910; transferred to the Coldstreams, 6 Dec. 1912; went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 5 Nov. following. Buried there. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Windsor, 7 July, 1914, Minnie Jane (75, Hatherley Road, Reading, Berks), dau. of William Collyer, and had a son, Frederick Williams, b. 12 July, 1915.

WINTON, ALBERT EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6841), 194785, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

WINTON, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 9376, 2nd Battn., East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of John Winton, of East Ferring, Worthing, Council Labourer, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of Charles Pelham, of Angmering; b. Sutton, co. Sussex, 25 Feb. 1886; educ. Ferring Church of England School; was a Barman and Nurseryman; enlisted in Dec. 1909; served in India 1912–14; was recalled with his Regt. to England after the outbreak of the European War; arrived in England on Christmas Eve; went to France, 17 Jan. 1915, and was promoted L.-Corpl., previous to being killed in action, 22 May, 1915; unm.

WINWOOD, GEORGE, A.B., J. 2550, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WINWOOD, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4966), S.S. 1786, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WIRE, JOHN BERTRAM, Private, No. 2047, 11th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of John Benjamin Wire, of 35, Borthwick Road, Stratford, co. Essex, retired Builder; by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Nicholas (and Grace) Oldreive; b. Stratford, co. Essex; educ. Commercial and Civil Service College, Forest Gate, and emigrated to Australia in Sept. 1907, where he had two years training at the Australian Government College for Agriculturists. On the outbreak of war he gave up his farm of 420 acres; enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in June, and was killed in action in a bayonet charge 1 Aug. 1915, his battn. having been ordered by Lieut.-General Birdwood to clear the trenches opposite Tasmania Post. Buried at the rear of the battn. lines next to his Lieut.; unm. Private Wire gained distinction at the West Ham Technical Institute in Bookkeeping and a 1st Class Certificate from the Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, of London.

WISE, ARTHUR ERNEST, Steward, H.M. trawler Argyll, s. of the late Robert Wise, of Gainsborough; b. Newport, Isle of Wight, 30 Nov. 1873; educ. Bristol; joined H.M. cutter Argyll, 5 March, 1915, and was lost when she was torpedoed, 15 June, 1915. He m. at Bristol, 7 Aug. 1893, Maude (1, Auckland Terrace, Gillett Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of the late Frank Lewis; s.p.

WISEMAN, PHILIP JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4902), 204779, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WITTER, JAMES, Private, No. 742, 11th Battn. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Andrew Witter, of Kiltyferagle, Cloghan, co. Donegal, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John McDermott; b. Kiltyferagle, 9 May. 1887; educ. Cloghan National School; went to Australia, 11 May, 1911; worked on the gold fields; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Nov.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on 26 May, 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. His Company Commander wrote: “He had been in my company from its inception and I found him a fine reliable soldier, full of pluck and good nature. He was wounded in the trenches by a shell, and although he received prompt attention, it seems that he was too badly hit to recover. My company formed part of the first landing force of 1,500 men, and your son took part in this action. You have read the reports in the papers, and from that you can see what each man had to put up with. Some of my men informed me that during the first few days he carried several men under fire. Unfortunately he has lost his own life. Still you can look with pride on his record, which was a good one indeed.”

WOGAN, JOHN HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3770), S.S. 101411, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WOLSELEY, WILLIAM SPENCER JOSEPH, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 6th s. of Edward Talbot Wolseley, of Maryland, Ascot, formerly Capt. 3rd Staffordshire Militia, by his wife, Florence Mary, 3rd dau. of Edward Joseph Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, and nephew of Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, of Wolseley, 9th Bart.; b. Holme Chase, Weybridge, co. Surrey, 23 March, 1886; educ. St. Augustine’s College, Ramsgate; went to Canada in March, 1913, but on the outbreak of war came home and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Reserve of Officers to the 3rd Battn. East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He went to France with his regt. on 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. His yst. brother, Robert Francis Joseph, who was commissioned in the same battn. at the same time, was wounded at Ploegsteert on 4 Feb. 1915, and his 2nd brother, Hubert Joseph, was killed in action at Elandslaagte, during the South African War, 27 Oct. 1899, while serving with the Imperial Light Horse.

WOLSTENHOLME, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109673, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WOMBWELL, ROBERT BERTIE, Sergt., No. 8207, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Robert Wombwell, of Lower Holbrook, Ipswich, Hay Binder, by his wife, Elizabeth Louise, dau. of William Buttle; b. Holbrook, co. Suffolk, 16 March, 1892; educ. there; enlisted in 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action, 25 Nov. 1914; unm. His Chief Officer, Capt. V. C. de Crespigny, wrote: “He was a brave man and died a soldier’s death, and I cannot say how sorry we all are. He had had narrow escapes, having had amongst other things, a bullet through his clothes, and as his Company Commander I knew him well. Good men such as he are scarce. When sick before, he refused to go to hospital till ordered to do so.”

WOOD, ALFRED JOSEPH, Private, No. 1817, 2/9th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Arthur Henry Wood, of 29, Devonshire Road, Pinner Road, Harrow, Civil Servant, by his wife, Ellen Elizabeth, dau. of Alfred Brown of Roxeth, Harrow; b. Finsbury Park, London, 17 June, 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow; was a Dental Mechanic; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne, was attd. 2/10th Middlesex, went to the Dardanelles, 18 July, 1915; took part in the heavy fighting at Suvla Bay during Sept. 1915, and died in Alexandria Government Hospital, 16 Oct. from dysentery, contracted after six weeks in the trenches; unm. He was buried at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria.

WOOD, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, Plumber’s Mate, M. 5490, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WOOD, CHARLES EDMUND, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. s. of Edward John Wedg Wood, of Meece House, near Stone, Staffordshire, by his wife, Lettice, 3rd dau. of the late Charles Challinor, of Basford; b. Watford, co. Herts, 23 Dec. 1884; educ. at Elstree Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs., Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 11 April, 1913, and was Adjutant to the 5th (Territorial) Battn. at Flint from 20 Oct. 1913 to Nov. 1914, when he left for France to join his own battn., which formed part of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, under General Sir Thomson Capper. He was acting Adjutant and 2nd in Command at the time of his death, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm. Buried at Fauquissart, near Laventie. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915, being incorrectly described there as of the 2nd Battn. Capt. Wood was a keen and zealous officer, well spoken of by his Divisional General and all who came in contact with him. He was well known in the hunting field with the North Staffordshire and other packs.

WOOD, CHARLES WILLIAM, A.B., J. 11863, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WOOD, EDGAR ADRIAN, Signalman (R.F.R., B. 2104), 206288, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WOOD, FRANK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10376), 204911, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WOOD, GEORGE DOUGLAS HARRY, Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, and A.D.C. to Capt. Kennedy, H.M.S. India, yr. s. of the late George Wood, of Gordon Terrace, Edinburgh, Wholesale Boot Factor, by his wife, Annie Champion (9, Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Capt. William Bastard, of Padstow, Cornwall; b. Edinburgh, 7 Dec. 1897; educ. Edinburgh Academy and H.M.S. Conway; was appointed Midshipman (temp.), R.N.R., 24 March, 1915, and posted to H.M.S. India, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 8 Aug. 1915.

WOOD, GEORGE WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9617), S.S. 106983, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WOOD, HARRY, Private, No. 5562, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John Wood, Cloth Drawer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of James Broxombe; b. Burley, Leeds; educ. Church Schools there; enlisted 31 Aug. 1904; passed into the Reserve, 1907, then went into the Police Force, North Riding, at South Bank; was called up on mobilisation; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; was wounded at the Aisne, 14 Sept., and was home for six months, returned to the Front 19 April, 1915; was again wounded at the Battle of Festubert, and died at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert two days previously. He was buried at Boulogne. Private Wood m. at Middlesbrough, 1908, Edith Mary Ellen (4, Rockcliff Street, Ventnor Street, Kirkstall Road, Leeds), dau. of John Hughes, and had three children: John Henry, b. 26 Oct. 1908; Rowland George, b. 11 Feb. 1912; and Ivy, b. .. June, 1910.

WOOD, JAMES MACGREGOR, Private, No. 7941, 2nd Battn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, eldest s. of James Wood, of 11, Maxwell Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of William Fraser, of New York; b. Edinburgh, 20 July, 1882; educ. North Merchiston, South Morningside and Bruntsfield Board School there; joined the 3rd Royal Scots, was for some time in the 8th Provisional Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, joining the 1st Battn. in Jan. 1900. He was three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve and was a Postman at the G.P.O. in Edinburgh when war was declared; went to the Front in Aug. 1914, with the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 10 Nov. 1914. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. Wood m. at Morningside, 4 Oct. 1909, Martha (25, Stewart Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of Patrick Currie, of Ballymena, co. Down, and had two children: James, b. 27 March, 1911; and Robert MacGregor, b. Sept. d. Oct. 1912.

WOOD, JOHN, Chief Stoker, 279879, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WOOD, JOSEPH, Acting Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4528), 305734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WOOD, LEOFRIC, Private, No. 2049, 11th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Frederic Wood, of Wrington, co. Somerset, Solicitor, by his wife, Amy Elizabeth, dau. of George Pizey, late of Clevedon, Somerset, M.R.C.S.; b. Wrington, 22 Aug. 1894; educ. Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare; was for some time in the Accountant’s Office of the British Imperial Tobacco Co. at Bedminster, but in April, 1912, went out to Western Australia; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 27 Jan. 1915, did three months’ training at Perth; sailed for Fremantle with the 5th reinforcement for the 11th Battn. in April, arrived at Cairo towards the end of May, and landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula 15 June, and after six weeks in the trenches died from dysentery, 2 Aug. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers are with the Colours, Dubric as a motor-cyclist despatch rider, with the Expeditionary Force in France, Godric with the R.E., in France, and Wilgric, O.T.C., Bristol, and a fourth brother, Yetric Wood, is a Midshipman R.N.R., training on H.M.S. Excellent at Portsmouth.

WOOD, ROBERT, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., A. 1933), 161053, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WOOD, THOMAS, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9935), 215158, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914.

WOOD, WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 2300, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Arthur Wood, of 260, Oxford Street, Stepney, E., Bricklayer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late William Whale; b. Mile End Road, London, E., 12 Nov. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Square, White Horse Lane, and Cooper’s Company School, Bow; was a Clerk at C. & E. Morton’s, Ltd., Milwall; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the attack on Hill 70 during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. The Sergt. of his platoon wrote of him saying that “he fought like a man until the end, and was cheerful throughout.” While at school he won the Junior County Scholarship 1906, and passed the Oxford Senior Local Exam. at the age of 16.

CARTER-WOOD, JOSEPH ALLAN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Joseph Edmund Carter-Wood, of Skinburness Tower, Silloth, co. Cumberland, by his wife, Evelyn Alice, dau. of Brig.-Gen. Alexander William Adair, of Heatherton Park, Somerset, late Coldstream Guards, who served in the Crimea; b. London, 3 Nov. 1884; educ. at Mr. Burgess’ School, Epsom, and Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 10 Oct. 1914, and promoted Lieut.; went to the Front, 22 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried in the military graveyard there. His Commanding Officer, Col. Pereira, wrote: “Your son had only been in the battn. about a week, but in that short time his company commander, Capt. Leigh-Bennett, had found him a most useful and invaluable officer”; and Col. R. Drummond Hay: “For even though your boy had been in the regt. such a short time he had shown what good metal he was made of, and in spite of his health was already a very valuable addition to our strength. Some few of our youngsters showed themselves born soldiers from the first, and he was one of the few.” Lieut. Carter-Wood was a good landscape painter, and had had several pictures hung in the Royal Academy and other exhibitions; he was also a keen fisherman and game shot.

WOODFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2050), 205828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WOODGATE, CHARLES ARTHUR, R.N.R., Skipper, 217 W.S.A., H.M. steam-drifter Linsdell; reported missing after the sinking of the Linsdell by a mine, 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914.

WOODHOUSE, GEORGE, A.B., J. 10624, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

WOODLAND, HERBERT EDWIN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26779, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WOODNUTT, GEORGE HENRY, Private, No. 11559, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Woodnutt, of 16, Brewer Street, Brighton; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 4 March, 1915. Buried 500 yards past the Le Touret turning on right of Bethune-Richebourg Road via Rue du Bois; unm.

WOODROFF, HENRY, Private, No. 1426, 1 Coy. 14th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late James Woodroff by his wife, Jessie Sarah (27 E Block, Peabody Buildings, Shadwell, E.), dau. of James Maclachlan; b. Stepney, 12 April, 1883; educ. Broad Street School, Ratcliffe, E. Was employed for some years at a cork manufacturers, afterwards went to Australia, where he worked in an iron foundry. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 29 Nov. 1914, and died of fever, in the Base Hospital, Egypt, 19 July, 1915; unm.