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GODALMING,
CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL MEMORIAL CHAPEL
World
War 1 & 2 - Detailed information compiled by Eric Webb & Chris
Wheeler 2008-2009
Copyright © Charterhouse School 2008
Extra detail Martin Edwards & Mal Murray
GREAT
WAR 1914-1918
SURNAMES W
| WALCOT,
DSO |
Basil |
Major,
Royal Engineers. Died on service 14 September 1918. Born 3 December
1880. Husband of Nora Constance Blanch (nee Kelly) Walcot, of Woodcorner
Farmhouse, Worplesdon, married 19 June 1913 in Worplesdon, St Mary,
Surrey; he was a Captain at that time. In the 1881 census he was
newborn, born Chelsea, Middlesex, son of Henry T and Florence F
Walcot, both born in Canada, boarding at 25 & 26, 25, Holles
Street, St Marylebone, Marylebone, London & Middlesex. In the
1891 census he was aged 10, born London, Middlesex, a scolar, visiting
school at Fonthill, Kingscote, East Grinstead, Sussex. In the 1901
census he was aged 20, born Chelsea, Middlesex, a Second Leiutenant,
Royal Engineers, billeted at Brompton Barracks, Gillingham, Medway,
Kent,. Served in the South African war. Awarded the Distinguished
Service Order (D.S.O.). Buried 17 September 1918 North West of the
Church in WORPLESDON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD, Surrey.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1894:
Walcot,
Basil. b. 3 Dec., 1880. (Daviesites); Left O.Q., 1897.- Joined R.E.,
1900; served in S. African War, 1902; employed on Steam Road Transport.
B. Walcot, Esq., R.E., Messrs. Cox d Co., 16, Charing Cross,
S.W.
Extract
from the Distinguished Service Order 1886-1915,
page 393:
WALCOT,
BASIL, Capt., entered the Royal Engineers 6 Jan. 1900;
became Lieutenant 19 Dec. 1902, and Captain 6 Jan. 1909. He served
in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in
the Transvaal, April to May, 1902; also in Cape Colony, May, 1902
(Queen's Medal with four clasps). For his services in the European
War he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order
[London Gazette, 23 June, 1915]: "Basil Walcot, Capt., Royal
Engineers. For distinguished service in the field." Major
Walcot died 14 Sept. 1918.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1918:
WALCOT
Basil of Hockley Lands Worplesdon Surrey
D.S.O. major R.E died 14 September 1918 Probate London
28 January to Nora Constance Blanche Walcot widow.
Effects £1567 16s. 10d.
Extract
from Kensington News and West London Times - Friday 20
September 1918, page 5:
PRO
PATRIA
Major
Basil Walcot, D.S.O., R.E., who died on September 14, of illness
contracted on active service, was the only son of the late Henry
Talbot Walcot of 8, Kensington gate, W. Bom in 1880, he was educated
at Charterhouse and the Royal Military Academy, and entered the
Royal Engineers in 1900 being promoted captain in 1909 and major
1916. He graduated at Staff College in 1912. Major Walcot served
in the South African War in 1902, receiving the Queen’s
Medal and four clasps. He embarked for France in August, 1914,
with the Headquarters Staff of the 2ndCorps and served continuously
in France until invalided in July 1917. For his services in the
present war he was six times mentioned in despatches and was awarded
the D.S.O., a brevet majority, and the Cross of the Legion of
Honour. Major Walcot married in 1913, Nora, only daughter of J.
R. Kelly and of Mrs. Kelly of Hockley Lands, Worplesdon, and leaves
two sons
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| WALFORD |
Oliver
Robson |
 Second
Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action
26 April 1915. Aged 19. Son of the late Col. William Swordes Walford
(R.A.) and Mrs. Mary Ella Walford. In the 1901 census he was aged
5, born Weymouth, Dorset, son of William S Walford (a widower),
resident Warden Lodge, 3, Totlands, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight
& Hampshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 15, born Weymouth,
Dorset, a student, resident St Minver E, Liss, Hampshire. Buried
in OOSTTAVERNE WOOD CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VIII.
Row E. Grave 12. Also commemorated on Freshwater War Memorial, Isle
of Wight.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1 page
362:
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, 28 April, 1915;
unm.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1916:
WALFORD
Oliver Robson of Warden Lodge Totland Isle of Wight
second lieutenant Hampshire regiment died 26 April 1915 in France
or Belgium Administration London 21 January to
Helen Isabel Walford spinster. Effects £103 4s. 5d.
Extract
from Hampshire Observer and Basingstoke News - Saturday
22 May 1915, page 8, and also Reading Mercury - Saturday
22 May 1915, page 5:
WALFORD.-Gloriously
fell near Ypres on April 26th Oliver Robson Walford Sec. Lieut
1st Batt. Hants Regt. elder son of the late Col. W. S. Watford,
R.A., and stepson of Mrs Walford, Warden Lodge, Totland Bay, I.W.,
aged 19.
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| WALFORD |
William
Geoffrey |
 Captain
(Observer), 62nd Squadron, Royal Air Force and Royal Monmouthshire,
Royal Engineers. Missing, believed killed in action, flying in a
Bristol F.2b Fighter, serial number E2513, 4 November 1918. Aged
23. Born 16 February 1896. Baptised 17 March 1896 in Rushall, St
Michael, Staffordshire. Son of Capt. William Walford and Laura Cooke
Walford, of Glanmonnow, Garway, Hereford. In the 1901 census he
was aged 5, born Walsall, Staffordshire. on of William and Lora
[sic] C Walford, resident Old Rectory, Hammerwich, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
In the 1911 census he was aged 15, born Walsall, Staffordshire,
aschool boarder, resident Charterhouse, Godalming Rural Detached,
Surrey. Buried near North-West corner of BLAUGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY,
Hainaut, Belgium. Also commemorated on the Greens Norton War memorial,
Northamptonshire.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1919:
WALFORD
William Geoffrey of Glanmonnon Garway Herefordshire
captain Royal Monmouthshire Engineers and R.A.F. died 4 November
1918 in Belgium Administration London 21 June to
William Walford solicitor.
Effects £227 8s. 6d.
Extract
from Lichfield Mercury - Friday 28 August 1914, page 4,
and also Walsall Observer - Saturday 29 August 1914, page
4:
Appointment
to a Commission.—Mr. William Geoffrey Walford has
been gazetted second lieutenancy in the Royal Monmouth Royal Engineers.
He is a member of an old Wolverhampton family, and a grandson of
the late Sir Rupert Kettle.
He
is also commemorated on the north wall of St Bartholomew's Church,
Towcester Road, Greens Norton, Northamptonshire.
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| WALKER,
DSO |
Edward
William |
 Captain,
1st/7th (Merloneth and Montgomery) Battalion (Territorial), Royal
Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action 6 November 1917. Aged 25. Son
of Mrs. Sarah Caroline Walker, of Bryntirion, Oswestry, and the
late Rev. William Greaves Walker, of Knockin Rectory, Oswestry.
In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born Birmingham, Warwickshire,
son of William G and Sarah C Waker, resident The Rectory (St Marys),
Knockin, Oswestry, Shropshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 18,
born Birmingham, Warwickshire, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse,
Godalming, Surrey. Gazetted to a Commission 8th Aug., 1914. Served
with 53rd Div at Gallipoli, 1915. Awarded the Distinguished Service
Order (D.S.O.). Buried in BEERSHEBA WAR CEMETERY, Israel and Palestine
(including Gaza). Section H. Grave 70.
Extract
from the Distinguished Service Order 1916-1923, page 359:
WALKER,
E. W. (D.S.O. L.G. 16.8.17); b. 1892; only s. of late Rev.
W. Greaves Walker, Rector of Knockin, and of Mrs. Walker, of Oswestry;
educ. Heswell; Charterhouse; Oxford; belonged to the Charterhouse
and Oxford O.T.C. He volunteered the day after war was declared;
commissioned in the T.F., became Capt., R. W. F., and saw service
at Suvla Bay, returning home after the evacuation with typhoid.
He rejoined his battalion and fought in the First Battle of Gaza
in March, 1917, where he won his D.S.O. After the. battle of Gaza
he was invalided home with malarial fever. Capt. Walker rejoined
his battalion, and was killed in action 6.11.17. His D.S.O. was
awarded for gallantry in Egypt 26.3.17.
Extract
from The London Gazette 16 August 1917:
WALKER,
EDWARD WILLIAM,
Capt., Royal Welsh Fusiliers. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion
to duty. He led his company forward and, assisted by an officer
and a few men of another unit, captured an important point and held
out against sharp counter-attacks until the re-in:tinder of the
enemy position urns won. He personally captured a machine gun and
a large number of prisoners.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1919:
WALKER
Edward William of Fairhavens Hampton-road Oswestry Shropshire
captain 7th battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers D.S.O. died
6 November 1917 in Syria Probate London 26 April
to Sarah Caroline Walker widow.
Effects £12399 3s. 8d. |
| WALLER |
Henry
Norman |
Captain,
2nd/4th Battalion (Territorial), Duke of Wellington's (West Riding
Regiment). Killed in action 3 July 1917. Aged 27. Son of Henry Hirst
Waller and Louise Waller, of Lyndhurst, West Vale, Halifax, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census he was aged 20, born Brighouse, Yorkshire, a
Cotton spinner, son of Henry Hirst and Louisa Waller, resident Lyndhurst,
92, Green Lane, Greetland, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (West Riding).
Buried in NOREUIL AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Row
H. Grave 4. Also commemorated on Greetland Memorial, West Yorkshire.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1918:
WALLER
Henry Norman of Lyndhurst West Vale near Halifax
captain 4th battalion West Riding regiment died 3 July 1917 in France
Administration (with Will) London 22 May to Dorothy
Louise 'Waller spinster.
Effects £1586 18s. 8d.
Extract
from Leeds Mercury - Wednesday 18 July 1917, page 2, and
Friday 20 July 1917, page 2:
WALLER.—On
July 3rd, killed in action, aged 27. Captain HENRY NORMAN WALLER.
Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, the dearly loved and only son
of Mr and Mrs. Hirst Waller, Lyndhurst, Greetland. Yorkshire. |
| WARE |
William |
 Second
Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action
27 October 1918. Aged 19. Baptised 8 June 1899 in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire.
Son of William and Elizabeth Ware, of Cwmwbwb, Caerphilley, Cardiff.
No known grave. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais,
France. Panel 6. Also commemorated on St. Martin War Memorial, Caerphilly,
Glamorganshire.
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| WARNE |
William
Millar |
 Lieutenant,
7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 22
May 1915. Born 23 December 1881. Buried in BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY
CEMETERY, FESTUBERT, Pas de Calais, France. Plot III. Row B. Grave
17. See also Eastergate
Memorial, Sussex
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1895:
Warne,
William Millar. b. 23 Dec., 1881. (Weekites); Left C.Q., 1899. Royal
Coll. of Science, London.-Analytical Chemist.
W. M. Warne, Esq., Abergele, Felppham, Bognor.
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916,
volume 2, page 493-494:
LIEUTENANT
(temp.) WILLIAM MILLAR WARNE, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY,
of Duchi - n - wai, Barnham, Sussex, was the second son of the
late Edward Warne, and was born at Forest Hill on the 24th December,
1881.
He was educated at Charterhouse, and received his commission
as temporary Lieutenant on the 11th December, 1914. He was killed
in action in France on the 22nd May, 1915.
His Commanding Officer wrote: "I was wounded, and directly
he heard it he went off at once to find me and see what he could
do for me. On his way he was hit by a shell—he had to
face a tremendous cannonading—and I knew nothing until
I was being brought back half an hour ago and found him lying
in the path. You know that he was my orderly officer."
And in a later letter: "You understand that it was entirely
his loyalty to me that caused his death; I had been wounded
down at the observing station, which was being very heavily
shelled and a message had been sent up without my knowledge
to say so. I sent through at once to say that no one was to
come down, knowing that they would have to come through an inferno
of bursting shells to get to me, but I knew he would come, and—may
I say it—I hoped be would, as there was no other officer
with me. My wound had been roughly bound up by a soldier, and
I wanted some one to come and help me in. I knew he would come
—I had only known him a few days, but I knew that he was
a man who would face anything if he thought he was wanted or
could do any good, and he knew that I should be wanting him.
My Adjutant tells me he started off immediately the message
came in.. . . He must have died at once—he cannot have
suffered, as he was found almost immediately afterwards. I suppose
he had told you that he had been appointed as my orderly officer;
he had only been with us a short time, but the time had been
quite long enough for him to gain my complete confidence and
my thorough liking."
The Adjutant wrote to Lieutenant Warne's widow: " Your
poor husband had only been with us about ten days or so, and
was really assisting me in my duties as Adjutant to the Brigade.
He did give me tremendous assistance too, and during the short
time I knew him we became groat friends. . . . Your husband
was laid to rest close to the guns of one of our batteries,
and in a very nice place. One could not have had a finer death
than his. He was sitting at the telephone with me when a message
came in to say that our Colonel bad been wounded, and your husband
at once got on to a bicycle and went to his assistance. He didn't
reach the Colonel, poor fellow."
Lieutenant Warne married Harriet, daughter of William Hunter,
and left one daughter, Marion, born in February, 1908.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1915:
WARNE
William Millar of Duchi-n-Wai Barnham near Bognor Sussex
died 22 May 1915 in France Probate London 10
August to Harriet Warne widow and Thomas Francis Leadbitter
esquire. Effects £4533 1s. 8d.
Extract
from Chichester Observer - Wednesday 7 February 1917,
page 1:
A
MEMORIAL WINDOW : EASTERGATE .—
A memorial window has recently been dedicated by the Vicar,
the Rev. W. D. Yoward, at the Eastergate Parish Church, in honour
of a former resident, Lieutenant William Millar Warne. R.G.A.,
who was killed in action at Ncuve Chapelle in August 1915. The
dedication ceremony was of a private character, only members
of the deceased officer's family attending. The window shows
two figures, representing Faith and Fortitude, with an inscription
below.
Extract
from Chichester Observer - Wednesday 7 February 1917,
page 1, and roughly the same in West Sussex Gazette
- Thursday 17 June 1915, page 9:
Lieutenant
William Millar Warne, Duchi-a-Wai, Barnham, was killed in action
on May 22 at the age of 33. He had lived at Barnham for about
eight years, and as a mining engineer spent much time abroad
in West Africa and India. As a big game hunter he had had many
adventures. After the war broke out he obtained a commission
and was gazetted to the R.G.A. in December. Two months later
he went out to France.
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| WARTNABY |
Charles
Richard Arnold |
Lieutenant,
Northamptonshire Yeomanry. Killed 11 March 1915. Aged 28. Born circa
1887 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Baptised 16 January 1888
8in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Son of Florence Mary Wartnaby,
of Clipston, Market Harborough, and the late William Wade Wartnaby.
In the 1911 census he was aged 23, born Market Harborough, Leicestershire,
a land Agent, son of Florence Mary Wartnaby (a widow), resident
The Hollies, Clipston, Market Harboro, Northamptonshire. Buried
in VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE, Pas de Calais,
France. Plot VII. Row A. Grave 10. Also commemorated on Market Harborough
Memorial, Leicestershire and Cottage Hospital War Memorial, Market
Harborough, Leicestershire.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1915:
WARTNABY
Charles Richard Arnold of The Hollies Clipston Northamptonshire
lieutenant Northamptonshire Yeomanry died 11 March 1915 in Northern
France Probate London 24 June to William Thomas
Wade Wartnaby engineer and John Edward Holdich Wartnaby lieutenant
R.F.A.
Effects £15147 4s.
Extract
from Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Tuesday 29 June 1915,
page 2:
LIEUT.
WARTNABY'S WILL.
Lieutenant
Charles Richard Arnold Wartnaby, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, of The
Hollies, Clipston, near Market Harborough, a well-known figure with
the Pytchley Hounds, killed in action, left unsettled property of
the value of £15,147 (net personalty £4,108). The following
are included in the bequests:
£500
if ten or more members of the Clipston Troop of Yeomanry be killed
in the present war, or £300 if less than ten, to be applied
by his trustees in their discretion for the benefit of the relatives
of those killed. |
| WATERHOUSE,
MC, MiD |
Alfred
William |
 Captain,
1st (Royal) Dragoons. Killed in action 12 January 1916. Aged 26.
Born 24 September 1889 in London. Son of Samuel Hugh and Lilian
Edith Waterhouse, of The Grange, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. Left
Royal Military College 15 September 1909. Awarded the Military Cross
(M.C.), Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Buried in VERMELLES BRITISH
CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot III. Row B. Grave 4.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1916:
WATERHOUSE
Alfred William of the Hill Thorpe Mandeville Northamptonshire
captain 1st Royal Dragoons died 12 January 1916 in France Administration
London 27 May to Samuel Hugh Waterhouse esquire.
Effects £5452 19s. 6d.
Extract
from Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 18 January 1916,
page 4:
Captain
Waterhouse, Royal Dragoons.
Captain
Alfred William Waterhouse, 1st Royal Dragoons (killed in action
France on January 13), was born in September, 1889. He was the only
son of S. H. Waterhouse of Thorpe Mandeville, Banbury, and was educated
at Sandhurst. Captain Waterhouse had been twice mentioned in despatches.
He was wounded last May, and returned to the front in December.
The family is an old one in Yorkshire.
Extract
from Truth - Wednesday 26 January 1916, page 6:
Captain
Alfred William Waterhouse, who was killed on the western front on
January 14, was the son of Mr. Waterhouse, of Thorpe Mandeville,
Banbury, and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royals
in 1909, getting his star in 1911. He was promoted captain in May
of last year for distinguished service in the field, and after being
badly wounded and recovering, joined the 5th Reserve Regiment of
Cavalry, returning to the front at the end of December. He was a
born cavalry officer, and a fine rider to hounds, as well as a first-class
polo player. He was only twentysix when he met his death.
Extract
from Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Saturday 15 January
1916, page 7, and Northampton Mercury - Friday 21 January
1916, page 5:
The
following are unofficially reported:—
KILLED.
WATERHOUSE, CAPT. A. W., 1st (Royal) Dragoons.
Captain
Alfred William Waterhouse, killed in action in France on January
13, was the only son of Mr. S. H. Waterhouse. of Thorpe Mandeville,
Banbury. He twice had tho distinction of being mentioned in Field-Marshal
Sir John French's despatches. Last May he was wounded, and he only
returned to the front at the end of December. |
| WATSON |
John
Eben |
 Second
Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Killed in action
26 September 1915. Aged 18. Son of Amelia P. Watson, of 16, Belhaven
Terrace, Glasgow, and the late Thomas Watson McNab Watson, C.A.
Educated at Kelvinside Academy and Charterhouse. In the 1911 census
he was aged 14, born Glasgow, Lanarkshire, a school boarder, resident
Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey. No known grave. Commemorated on
LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 46 to 49. Also commemorated
on the family grave in Glasgow Necropolis.
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| WAY |
George
Currey |
 Major,
16th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Killed
in action 28 January 1916. Aged 36. Son of William Robert and Emma
Way (nee Currey); husband of Ethel Georgina Way, of Natal; father
of Robert Edward Way, born 19 December 1912. In 1906 he obtained
a commission in the Natal Border Mounted Rifles, in which he became
captain and adjutant. Resident Herdstown, Ixopo, Natal, South Africa.
Buried in CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France. Row
L. Grave 19. Also commemorated on Upminster War Memorial, Essex.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1894:
Way,
George Currey. b. 23 Aug., 1880. (Saunderites); Left C.Q., 1898.-Farmer.
G. C. Way, Esq., Herdstaun, Ixopo, Natal.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1916:
WAY
George Currey of Upminster Essex and of Winklesea
Winklespruit Natal major 16th Middlesex regiment died 28 January
1916 in France Probate London 15 April to the
Public Trustee. Effects £13257 8s. 2d.
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| WEARNE |
Keith
Morris |
 Captain,
3rd Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Killed in
action 21 May 1917. Born 8 June 1892. In the 1901 he was aged 8,
born Kensington, Middlesex, son of Frank and Ada Wearne, resident
89, Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead, London & Middlesex. In the
1911 census he was aged 18, born Kensington, London, a Gentleman
cadet, a student, resident Royal Military College For Training Officers
For The Army, Camberley, Surrey. Grave lost. Buried in ORANGE TRENCH
CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX, Pas de Calais, France. Special Memorial
3.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1917:
WEARNE
Keith Morris of the Manor Lodge Worcester Park Surrey
captain 1st battalion Essex regiment died 21 May 1917 in France
Administration London 31 August to Frank Wearne
esquire. Effects £262 11s. 9d. Further grant 4 September 1924.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1924:
WEARNE
Keith Morris of Manor Lodge Worcester Park Surrey
died 21 May 1917 in France Administration London
4 September to Ada Wearne widow. Effects£125.
Former Grant P.R. August 1917.
Extract
from Banbury Guardian - Thursday 7 June 1917, page 5:
Captain
Keith Morris Wearne, Essex Regiment, killed, was the eldest son
of Mr. and Mrs Frank Wearne, of The Manor Lodge, Worcester Park.
Surrey. He passed out of Sandhurst in 1911 and joined his regiment,
then stationed in India. Captain Wearne was severely wounded in
Galipoli. He was with his regiment when it was stationed in Banbury.
Extract
from Daily News (London) - Friday 3 August 1917, page 1:
THE
NEW V.C.s.
Second
Lieut. Frank Bernard Wearne. of the Essex Regiment, one of the new
V.C.s, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wearne, of the Manor
Lodge, Worcester Park, Surrey, and was in his 23rd year.
His
elder brother, Captain Keith Morris Wearne, also of the Essex Regiment.
was killed on May 21. Another brother, fighting with the Canadians,
has been wounded, whilst a fourth, the youngest brother, joins up
next Month. |
| WEBB |
Philip
Edward |
Second
Lieutenant. Born 14 July 1886 in Notting Hill, St John's, 2nd son
of Sir Aston Webb and Lady Webb, of 1 Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke
Square, London. In the 1891 census he was aged 4, born London, Middlesex,
son of Aston and Marian Webb, resident Hanover Terrace, Kensington,
London & Middlesex. He was at Charterhouse [S] 1900 - 1905.
In the 1901 census he was aged 14, born London, Middlesex, a school
boarder, resident Charterhouse Block, Godalming Rural, Guildford,
Surrey. He became an architect. In the Great War he was commissioned
into the Royal Engineers, he served with 59th Field Company. He
was killed in action near Morval on 25 September 1916. He is commemorated
on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 8A and 8D.
See also London, Royal
Academy and individual plaque in Notting
Hill, St John's Church
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1900:
Webb,
Philip Edward. b. 14 July, 1886. (Saunderites).
P. E. Webb, 1, Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, W.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1916:
WEBB
Philip Edward of 1 Hanover-terrace Holland Park Middlesex
second-lieutenant R.E. died 25 September 1916 in France Probate
London 3 November to sir Aston Webb K.C.V.O.
Effects £1188.
Extract
from Kensington News and West London Times - Friday
6 October 1916, page 5:
SIRE
AND SON
To
the lengthening Roll of the sons of leading men the public life
of the Royal Borough of Kensington is now the name of Second
Lieutenant Philip Edward Webb, R.E., youngest son of Sir Aston
and Lady Webb of Hanover terrace, Ladbroke Square, W., who was
killed on September 25th, aged 30 years.
Thus
yet another prominent member of the Royal Borough Council becomes
included in the list of those whose work in the public interest
in municipal and other civilian paths has been nobly supplemented
by the deathin his country’s cause of a gallant son. Sir
Aston Webb, as an Alderman of the Royal Borough Council, took
a prominent share in the initiation and establishment of the
Improvements Committee, whose energies, though interrupted by
the war, will undoubtedly be of incalculable benefit to Kensington.
Needless
to state, Sir Aston Webb enjoys a fame extending far beyond
local areas, being recognised as one of the greatest of British
architects. The Victoria and Albert Museum, the last public
edifice opened by the late King Edward, was built according
to Sir Aston’s plans.
Kensington, however, to-day regards him, and the profound sympathy
of all within the Royal Borough goes out to him, most directly
as one who laboured long and conspicuously well in its best
and most important interests, who, like so many other of its
public men, mourns a hero son fallen nobly in our cause. Once
again we bare our heads in reverence of the sire who lives and
the son who died for their Country and their King.
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| WEDDERBURN-MAXWELL |
James |
 Second
Lieutenant. Born 22 March 1899, 3rd and youngest son of Helen Mary
Godfrey Wedderburn-Maxwell, of Glenlair, Dalbeattie Kirkcudbrightshire,
and the late Major James Andrew Colville Wedderburn-Maxwell. He
was at Charterhouse [B] 1913 - 1916. He went up to Edinburgh University
where he joined the O.T.C. Charterhouse; OTC 1914-15. University
OTC Infantry, March to October 1917, Cadet; Officer Cadet October
1917. Aged 18 he was commissioned into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers,
he joined 3rd Bn. and was later attached to 6th Bn. He was wounded
near Passchendaele and killed in action at Ledeghem Station, Belgium
on 1 October 1918, aged 19. His grave is in DADIZEELE NEW BRITISH
CEMETERY (outside Ypres), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot V. Row
D. Grave 4.
Extract
from The Scotsman - Wednesday 30 October 1918, page 8:
Sec.
Lt. JAMES WEDDERBURN-MAXWELL, K.O.S.B. (previously reported wounded
and missing on October 1, now reported killed on that date), was
the youngest son of the late Major -Wedderburn-Maxwell (Bengal
Staff Corps), of Middlebie and Glenlair. He was born on 22nd March
1899, and educated at Charterhouse. He passed for Sandhurst, but
was disqualified medically. Subsequently, however, he entered
a Cadet Battalion and was gazetted to the King 's Own Scottish
Borderers in March last. He went to the front on August 17, and
fell in his first action. The Brigadier wrote of him, "He
would have been an asset to the brigade, and in years to come
his manner of going out will be a perpetual honour to his family."
|
| WELCH |
Walter
George Frederic |
 Lieutenant.
Born 7 March 1890, only son of R. Courtenay Welch, of Army College,
Heath End, Farnham, Surrey. In the 1891 census he was aged 1, born
London, Middlesex, son of Reginald and Adeline Welch, resident Southwick
Place, Paddington, London & Middlesex. He was at Charterhouse
[V] 1904 - 1905. In 1910 He was commissioned into the Royal Field
Artillery, he joined 127th Bty. In the 1911 census he was aged 21,
born Paddington, London, unmarried, serving soldier, Lieutenant,
Royal Field Artillery, 127th Battery, billeted at Louisberg Barracks,
Bordon Camp, Bordon, Headley, Hampshire. He was killed in action
at Ypres on 30 October 1914,aged 24. His grave is at RAMPARTS CEMETERY,
LILLE GATE, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Row I. Grave 4.
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916,
volume 1, page 436:
LIEUTENANT
WALTER GEORGE FREDERIC WELCH, 117th BATTERY. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY,
only son of Reginald Courtenay Welch, Principal of the Army College,
Farnham, near Aldershot, was born on the 7th March, 1890, at 6,Southwick
Place, London, W. He was educated at Charterhouse and the Army
College, and in November, 1908, passed twenty-fifth into the R.M.A.,
Woolwich. After three terms he was gazetted, in July, 1910, 2nd
Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, and was posted to the
127th Battery, then at Bordon. He was promoted Lieutenant three
years later.
In January, 1913, he went to the depot at Preston, where he soon
became a great favourite, and remained there till mobilisation.
when he joined the 44th Ammunition Column. Shortly afterwards
he was posted to the 117th Battery with which he served both onthe
Aisne and in Flanders. It was on the evening of the 30th October,
1914, during the first Battle of Ypres, that this gallant young
officer met his death. His guns were posted in a wood about twelve
hundred yards south of Veldhoek, east-south-east of Ypres. The
position was rapidly becoming untenable, and just before the order
to retire was given Lieutenant Welch was struck down by a shell,
and buried "alongside the guns he had fought." A high-spirited
lad with a keen sense of humour, Lieutenant Welch was, in the
words of his Commanding Officer, "the life and soul of our
little mess, a keen and good soldier." One of those who served
under him wrote: "Mr. Welch was always very popular with
the men, but especially so in action."
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1,
page 372-373:
 WELCH,
WALTER GEORGE FREDERIC, Lieut., 117th Battery, Royal
Flied 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., 23 July, 1910, and posted to 127th Battery
at Bordon; went to Depot at Preston, Jan. 1913, and was promoted
Lieut. 23 July following. On mobilization he was attached to column
he was attached to the 44th Brigade Ammunition 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.
Extract
from The Scotsman - Wednesday 30 October 1918, page 8:
DEATHS.
WELCH.—Killed
in action on Oct. 30-31st, Lieut. Walter George Frederic Welch,
Royal Field Artillery, the only and dearly-loved son of Reginald
Courtenay and Mrs. Welsh, of the Army College, Heath End, Farnham,
and Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W., aged 24.
Extract
from Surrey Advertiser - Wednesday 3 January 1917, page
3:
WAR
SHRINE AT HALE.
A Tribute to Local Patriotism.
Situated on the triangular piece of
ground just above the Hale Recreation Ground, and standing by
the roadside, the war shrine given by Mr. R. Courtenay Welch,
in memory of his only son, Lieut. W. G. F. Welch, R.F.A., who
fell near Ypres, and others from the parish who have made the
supreme sacrifice, was dedicated on Saturday afternoon by Canon
Cuningham. The shrine, which is beautifully made, is of polished
oak. The roof modelled after the fashion of lychgate, and is surmounted
by a plain gilt cross. The centre panel records the names of 55
men who have made the supreme sacrifice. Above it are the words:
“For King and Empire, 1914-19. —ln proud and grateful
memory of those who have fallen.” At its foot appears the
quotation, “Not once or twice in our rough island story,
the path of duty was the way of glory.” On two side panels
are the names of 820 men who voluntarily offered their services,
and of whom 153 are in The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment.
A tablet at the base bears the following record: “In ever
loving memory of Walter George Frederic Welch, Lieutenant, 117th
Battery, R.F.A., who was killed in action near Ypres, Oct. 30th,
1914, and buried alongside the guns he had fought. ‘He was
the life and soul of our little mess, a keen and a good soldier.’
—O.C."
The Bishop of Winchester had arranged to perform the ceremony,
but was subsequently taken ill, and the Bishop of Guildford, who
was to have taken his place, also fell a victim to influenza.
The dedication was therefore performed by Canon Cunningham, who
is acting Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester during the war.
The other ministers present were the Rev. H. D. Birley (Vicar
of Hale), the Rev. A. Woodward (superintendent minister of the
Aldershot and Farnham Wesleyan Circuit), and the Rev. A. H. Starey.
The service was conducted from a platform surrounding the shrine,
which is affixed to a screen supported on uprights, two Union
Jacks furled being crossed over the shrine.
A detachment of The Queen’s was present in charge of Captain
Passmore, and there was also a large and representative gathering.
The Farnham Urban Council was officially represented by several
members and their clerk (Mr. J. W. Wright). The mounted band of
the Royal Artillery, conducted by that veteran bandmaster, Mr.
H. Sims, played an opening voluntary the Priests’ War March
from “Athalie” (Mendelssohn). The Lord’s Prayer
was then recited, followed by prayers with responses. Psalm cxliv.
was read by the Rev. H. D. Birley, and the Rev A. Woodward read
the lesson, Isaiah xli., 1-13.
Following the Angels’ song, "It came upon the midnight
clear,” sung as a hymn. Canon Cunningham having explained
the absence of the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Guildford,
proceeded: It is not, however, the man who dedicates but the thing
which is dedicated round which our thoughts centre this afternoon.
This war shrine commemorates the share which the parish of Hale
has borne in the service and sacrifice asked of the English nation
and the British Empire. It is a generous share, it is one of which
this place may rightly be proud. The panels either side of the
shrine contain some 820 names, more than 25 per cent. of the population
of this place, men who offered willingly for King and Empire whatever
might be asked of them. It is the central panel before which we
bow our head in deeper reverence. That panel you will notice is
not yet complete, for none can tell how many names, before this
war is brought to victory, to righteous peace, shall be added
to that honourable place. But it at present contains the names
of men, for the most part young, eager and truly alive, men who
followed the path of duty, from whom the great sacrifice was asked,
and who shrank not from it. . . . With them it is well. They have
followed Him Whose symbol on the shrine is over their names. Who,
because of the sin which was in the world, and the love that was
in His heart, gave His life for others upon the Cross. They have
known “the fellowship of His sufferings,” we believe
also that they know the power of the risen life. As the people
of Hale and their children and children’s children for generations
to come, citizens, please God, of a free country, look upon this
shrine and read these names, may they lift their hearts in thankfulness,
may they with deeper resolve to make England more worthy to be
saved at so dear a cost.
Canon Cunningham then performed the dedication, using the following
form: "In the faith of Jesus Christ, Who came to serve and
to give His life for others, and to the glory of God, we dedicate
this shrine in lasting memory of those who have offered themselves
for King and Empire in the cause of freedom and of honour, in
name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.”
The Russian National Anthem was then sung as a hymn, and following
prayer for the soldiers and sailors, the band played Chopin’s
Funeral March. Afterwards the Last Post was sounded, and the impressive
service concluded with the singing of the National Anthem.
|
| WELDON,
DSO, CVO |
Sir
Anthony Arthur, Bart |
 Brevet
Colonel. Born 1 March 1863, 1st son of Sir Anthony Crosdil Weldon,
husband of Lady Winifred Bruce (nee Varty-Rogers) Weldon of 17A,
Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London, married Janury to March
Quarter 1902 in St. George Hanover Square Registration District,
London. He was at Charterhouse [P] 1877-1879, then at Trinity College,
Cambridge. In 1885 He was commissioned into the Leinster Regiment.
He followed a regular army career and served in the South African
War, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). In
1900 he succeeded his father as 6th Baronet and returned to civilian
life. From 1908 he was State Steward and Chamberlain to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland and in 1913 Lieutenant of County Kildare.
He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.).
In the Great War he served with 4th Bn., Leinster Regiment. He died
in a private hospital in Dublin on 27 June 1917, aged 54. According
to his obituary in The Times, he commanded a battalion of his Regiment
during the ‘Irish rebellion’, presumably the 1916 Easter uprising.
His name appears on the C.W.G.C. Register. According to the Sunday
Mirror, Sunday 1 July 1917, "He had seen many years of
military service, and was a fine sportsman." The Charterhouse
Register states him to have died ‘on active service’ He is buried
at ATHY (ST. JOHN'S) OLD CEMETERY, Republic of Ireland, in the family
vault. See also Trinity
College, Cambridge.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1877:
Weldon,
Anthony Arthur. b. 1 March, 1863. (Pageites ); Left O.Q., 1879.
Trin. Coll., Camb.; B.A., 1884.-Joined 4th Batt: Leinster Regt.,
1885; Major, 1899; A.D.C. to F.M. Viscount Wolseley (Commander-in-Chief),
1895-1900; served in S. African War with Natal Field Force,°
1899, 1900; D.S.O.- 6th Baronet, 1900.-D.L.; J.P. (Kildare &
Queen's County).
Major Sir A. A. Weldon, Bart., D.S.O., Kilmorony, Athy,
Co. Kildare.
Extract
from the Distinguished Service Order 1886-1915,
page 181:
WELDON,
SIR ANTHONY ARTHUR, Major, was born in London 1 March,
1863, eldest, son of the 5th Baronet. and Elizabeth, daughter
of the late Colonel Arthur Kennedy. He was educated at Charterhouse,
and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A.
in 1884; joined the 4th Battn. Leinster Regt. in 1885, and
became Major 13 Oct. 1889; was A.D.C. to F.M. Lord Wolseley,
Commander-in-Chief, 1895-1900; served in the South African
Campaign, 1899-1900, as Special Service Officer, with the
Natal Field Force, under Sir Redvers Buller; as Railway Staff
Officer, Lines of Communication, afterwards attached to the
Army Service Corps. Operations in Natal, 1899; Relief of Ladysmith,
including actions at Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz; operations
on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb. 1900 ), and action at Pieter's
Hill; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900. He was mentioned
in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1901],
received the Queen's Medal with two clasps, and was created
a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette,
27 Sept. 1901]: "Sir Anthony Arthur Weldon, Bart., Major,
4th Battn. Royal Canadians (Leinster Regt.). In recognition
of services during the operations in South Africa." The
Insignia were presented by the King 17 Dec. 190]; the Warrant
sent 24 Jan. 1902. He was created a C.V.O., 1911. He was Deputy-Lieutenant,
Queen's County; Justice of the Peace, Queen's County and County
Kildare; State Steward and Chamberlain to the Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland. He married, in 1902, Winifred, daughter of the
late Colonel Varty Rogers, of Broxmore Park, Romsey, late
of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and His Majesty's Bodyguard
of Gentlemen-at-Arms; and they had three sons. Sir A. A. Weldon
died 29 June, 1917, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by
his eldest son, Anthony Edward Wolseley Weldon, born 1 Dec.
1902.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1918:
WELDON
sir Anthony Arthur of Kilmorny Athy Queens County
C.F.O. D.S.O. H. M. L. baronet died 29 June 1917 at the
military Hospital 33 Upper Fitzwilliam-street Dublin Probate
Dublin to lady Winifred Bruce Blakeney
Weldon widow. Effects £181 14s. 1d. in England.
Sealed London 26 February.
Extract
from The Times - Saturday 30 June 1917, page
3:
OBITUARY.
COL. SIR ANTHONY WELDON.
Colonel
Sir Anthony Arthur Weldon, sixth baronet, his Majesty's
Lieutenant for County Kidare, died, yesterday, in Dubliin.
He was born in 1863, and succeeded to the baronetcy in
1900. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College,
Cambridge, and joined tho 4th Battalion of the Leinister
Regimnent in 1885, seeing service with the Natal Field
Force under Sir Redvers Buller in the South African War.
From 1895 to 1900 he was aide-de-camp to Lord Wolseley.
In 1908 he becaune a member of the Household Staff of
the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Aberdeen), and was Estate Steward
and Chamberlain for some years. During the present war
he was in command of a battallon of the Leinster Regiment,
and did good service at Limerick during the Irish rebellion.
In 1900 he received the D.S.O., and in 1911 the C.V.O.
He married Winifred,daughter of the late Colonel Varty
Rogers, and is succeeded by his son Antliony Edward.
Extract
from Dublin Daily Express - Saturday 30 June
1917, page 6:
OBITUARY
LIEUT.-COL. SIR A. WELDON C.V.O., D.S.O.
We
regretto announce the death, which occurred last evening
at Surgeon Wheeler’s Privaio Hospital of Lieut.-Colonel
Sir Anthony Arthur Weldon. Bart., H.M.L., C.V.O., D.S.O.
The deceased gentleman had been ailing for several weeks
past, aud the end was not unexpected.
Sir
Anthony Weldon was the sixth baronet of a creation dating
from 1723, and represented a family of great antiquity,
the original founder of which settled Northumberland
at the time of the Conquest, and was the common ancestor
of the Weldons of Rahinderry, Swanscombe in Kent, Shottesbroke
in Bcrkshire, and Thorby in Northamptonshire. One Hugh
Weltden was "sewer" to King henry the Seventh,
and his son Edward became Master of the Household to
henry the Eigth, while his grandson, the first family
to bear the name iof Anthony, waS appointed Clerk of
the Spicery and Board of Green Cloth by Queen Elizabeth,
who, it is alledged, granted the family the right to
use her bust as one of their crests as a special mark
of her Royal favour, a privilege which has been handed
down to the present day. Born in March 1963 [sic
- s/b 1863] Sir Anthony was educated at Charterhouse,
which he left in 1881 for Trinity College, Cambridge,
where he took his B.A. degree in 1884. His earliest
ambition was to go to the Bar, and he accordingly began
rewading law, only abandoning his studies at the express
wish of his father, who was residing abroad and wished
his son to live at home. On returing to ireland Sir
Anthony joined the 4th Batt. Leinster Regiment 9Quee's
County Militia), and shortly afterwards made the acquaintance
of Lord Wolseley, at the time commanding the Forces
in ireland, who, to the very natural gratification of
the young Militia subaltern, invited him on several
occasions to act as an extra aide-de-camp on his staff
at the irish Army manoeuvres. During the remainder of
Lord Wolseley's term in Ireland Sir Anthony spent a
great deal of time at the Royal Hospital on Headquarters
staff duty, and in 1895, when Lord Wolseley was appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Sir Anthony accompanied
him to London, and had the distinction of being the
first Militia officer to be employed by the C.I.C. at
the War Office, his appointment lasting till Lord Wolseley's
retirement in 1900. On the outbreak of the Boer War
in 1899 Sirt Anthony voluteered for active service,
and went out to South Africa "to spend his leave,"
journeying to Cape Town in the ship that took out Sir
Redvers Buller and his staff. There was not much doubt
of the authorities finding plenty of use in South Africa
for a smart young officer like Sir Anthony (who suceeded
to the baronetcy in Jan uary, 1900 on the death of his
father), and one, moreover, who came to them straight
from the War office. So the two and a half months "leave"
extended to seven or eight before Lord Wolseley got
his aide-de-camp back again. Sir Redvers Buller too
Sir Anthony on at once, and employed him as special
service officer with the Natal Field Force, in which
capacity he was present at the battle of Colenso and
at all the great engagements that followed, including
Spion Kop and Pieter's Hill. One of his saddest experiences
was the death of his friend, "Freddy" Roberts,
with whom he remained to the last. A happier memory
is the Relief o Ladysmith, at which Sir Anthny was present
under Lord Dundonald, and he stayed on at ladysmith,
looking after stores and hospital supplies, until June,
1900, when he was invalided home owing to ptomaine poisoning,
which very nearly proved fatal. When well enough Sir
Anthony resumed his duties at the War office, remanining
until Lord Wolseley's retirement in the following October.
He then went to Dover to join his regiment, taking practicl
command in the absence of the Colonel, Lord Castletown,
whose retirment promotoed Sir Anthony to the colonelcy.
In February, 1902, Sir Anthony married Miss Winifred
Varty-Rogers, daughter of the late Colonel Varty-Rogers,
of Broxmore Park, Romsey, late Dublin Fusiliers and
H.M. Bodyguard of gentlemen-at-Arms; and he consequently
decided not to go out to South Africa again but to bring
his bride home and settle down. Kilmorony is a fine
old house, pleasantly situtated on high ground overlooking
the river Barrow, the windows and terraces commanding
charming views of the river and the valley. The beautiful
gardens were laid out chiefly by Sir Anthony's mother,
but he himself and Lady Weldon have done much to improve
both the house and place, and he had lately gone in
for exensive fruit culture ..er the Irish Department
of Agriculture planting several acres in apple trees.
When at Kilmorony he farmed a good deal, and thoroughly
enjoyed hunting, shooting, and fishing. The offices
of State Steward and Chamberlain were, until Lord Aberdeen's
time, entirely distinct; but his Excellency considered
it advisable to amalgamate the two departments under
one responsible head, and the scheme was found to work
admirably and greatly to lessen the labour. Lord Liverpool
was the first to hold dual appointment, with Sir Anthony
Weldon as his Vice-Chamberlain; and on his resignation
the then Viceroy at once offered the vacant post to
Sir Anthonym whi held it until the departure of the
Marquis of Aberdeen from ireland. He was for many years
Deputy Lieutenant for Queen's County, and in 1913 he
was appointed H.M.L. for County Kildare. Since the outbreak
of the war the deceased gentleman has been actively
employed in various military duties. He leaves two sons.
|
| WENDEN |
George |
Captain
(Pilot), 35th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and Border Regiment.
Killed while flying an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 16 March 1917.
Aged 23. Native of Dursley, Gloucestershire. In the 1901 census
he was aged 7, born Cam, Gloucestershire, son of James G and Christina
Wenden, resident The Chantry, Long Street, Dursley, Gloucestershire.
In the 1911 census he was aged 17, born Cam, Gloucestershire, a
school boarder, resident Sanatorium Paperharow Road, Godalming,
Surrey. Buried in WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY, Pas
de Calais, France. Plot V. Row E. Grave 1. Also commemorated in
St James The Great Church War Memorial, Dursley, Gloucestershire.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1918:
WENDEN
George 61 The Chantry Dursley Gloucestershire
major Border regiment attached R.F.C. died 27 March 1917 in France
Administration London 21 January to Mary Hoffman
(wife of Geoffrey Arthur Hoffman). Effects £288 9s. 10d.
Extract
from Gloucestershire Chronicle - Saturday 24 March 1917,
page 3, and much the same in Gloucester Journal - Saturday
24 March 1917, page 6:
LOCAL
WAR NOTES
CAPT. G. WENDEN KILLED.
The
family of the late Mr. J. G. Wenden, The Chantry, Dursley, received
official notification on Tuesday that Capt. George Wenden had
been killed in action in France. The deceased oflicer was a man
about 21 years of age, and previous to joining the Army at the
outbreak of war was studying law with the intention of joining
his father in the profession. On the occasion of the recent death
of the latter Capt. Wendren came over to England. He was taken
ill whilst here, and had only returned for service a few days
before his death. The family will have the sympathy of the neighbourhood
in their further bereavement.
|
| WHARTON |
Guy
Fitzgerald |
 Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry attached to 1st Battalion,
King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Died of wounds suffered at
the Second Battle of Ypres 9 May 1915; wounded the previous day
near Ypres. Aged 20. Son of John Henry Turner Wharton and Edith
Wharton, of "Cherwell," Westwood Rd., Southampton. Educated
at "Scaitcliffe," Charterhouse and Sandhurst. In the 1901
census he was aged 6, born Southampton, Hampshire, son of John Henry
Turner and Edith Wharton, resident Cherwell, Westwood Road, Portswood,
South Stoneham, Hampshire. Buried in BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot I. Row A. Grave 19. See also
Highfield Memorial, Southampton
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916,
volume 2, page 505-506:
LIEUTENANT
GUY FITZGERALD WHARTON, 2nd BATTN. DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, attd.
1st BATTN. THE KING'S OWN (YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY), was
born on the 5th August, 1894, and was the youngest son of Mr. J.
H. T. and Mrs. Wharton, of Westwood Road, Southampton. Lieutenant
Wharton was a member of a well-known military family, his paternal
great-grandfather fought at Waterloo, and all the male members of
his mother's family have been or are in one of the Services. One
brother is a Lieutenant in the Navy, and another is serving in India.
He was educated at Scaitcliffe, Charterhouse, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst,
from which he was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light
Infantry (formerly commanded by his uncle, Brigadier-General H.
S. FitzGerald, C.B.) on the 8th August, 1914, and was promoted temporary
Lieutenant in November, receiving the substantive rank to date from
December, 1914. For active service in the Great War Lieutenant Wharton
was attached to the 1st Battalion King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry),
and went with them to Flanders. He was wounded three times while
showing extraordinary gallantry in going out of trenches to rally
his men during a heavy attack at Verlorenhoek, north-east of Ypres,
during the second battle of Ypres on the morning of the 8th May,
1915. He was taken to the Convent of Braudhoek, on the Ypres-Poperinghe
road, where he died on the following day, and was buried in the
meadow adjoining the Convent.
Lieutenant Wharton was keen on all forms of sport; he was a good
rider, and on occasions represented Charterhouse in the cricket
and football field. The regimental accounts all speak of his popularity
and his cheerfulness under trying conditions, and say that he met
his death doing a very gallant action. His Adjutant adds: "He
was a splendid soldier, loved by the men and mourned by them all."
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1915:
WHARTON
Guy FitzGerald of Cherwell Westwood-road Southampton
lieutenant Durham Light Infantry died 9 May 1915 at Brandstocke
near Ypres Belgium Administration London 14 June
to John Henry Turner Wharton solicitor.
Effects £283 14s. 3d.
Extract
from Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 15 May 1915, page
10:
A
telegram has been received by Mr. J. H. T. Wharton, solicitor, of
Southampton, announcing the death cf his youngest son, Lieut. Guy
Fitzgerald Wharton, of the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry.
He was educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, and received his
commission in July last. Early in January he went to the front,
attached to the 1st Battalion Yorkshire Light Infantry, with which
regiment he served continuously in the operations in Flanders. The
telegram reports he died of wounds on the 9th instant, but there
are no further particulars to hand.
He
is also commemorated on a plaque in Highfield Church, Southampton:
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
GUY FITZGERALD WHARTON
LIEUTENANT 2ND BATTN DURHAM
LIGHT INFANTRY. WHO DIED ON 9TH MAY 1915.
OF WOUNDS AT 2ND BATTLE OF YPRES, AGED 20. |
| WHINNEY,
MC, MiD, Croix de Guerre (Belgium) |
Frederick
Stoddart |
Captain.
Born 3 December 1886, 1st son of Frederick and Elizabeth Constance
Whinney, of 66, Avenue Rd., Regent's Park, London. He was at Charterhouse
[G] 1900-1905. In the 1891 census he was aged 4, born Marylebone,
son of Frederick and Elizabeth C Whinney, resident St Edmunds Terrace,
St Marylebone, Marylebone, London & Middlesex. In the 1901 census
he was aged 14, born Hampstead, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse
Block, Godalming Rural, Guildford, Surrey. In 1907 he was commissioned
into the Lincolnshire Regiment, at his death he was serving as Brigade
Major to 88th Inf. Bde. In the 1911 census he was aged 24, born
London, Middlesex, a serving soldier, Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion,
Lincolnshire Regiment, billeted at Fort Gomer With Detached Quarters,
Gomer, Alverstoke Gosport, Hampshire. He was Mentioned in Despatches
(MiD) and was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.) and the Croix de
Guerre (Belgium). He was killed in an accident in Cologne on 17
March 1919, aged 32. His grave is at COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY,
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot I. Row F. Grave 5.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1900:
Whinney,
Frederick Stoddart. b. 3 Dec., 1886. (Gownboys).
F. S. Whinney, 66, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1919:
WHINNEY
Frederick Stoddard of 66 Avenue-road Hampstead Middlesex
M.C. captain Lincolnshire regiment attached to staff as brigade-major
88 Infantry Brigade died 17 March 1919 at Cologne Germany Administration
(with Will) London 3o August to Gladys Saltmarsh
Whinney spinster Effects £1210 11s 6d.
|
| WHITE,
MC |
William |
 Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 12 October
1916. Aged 23. Baptised 16 November 1893 in Compton, Hampshire.
Son of Henry White and Alice Mary White, of Oakbank, Bishopstoke,
Eastleigh, Hants. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). In the 1901
census he was aged 7, born Shawford, Hampshire, son of Henry and
Alice mary Whte, resident Shawford Close, Shawford, Compton, Winchester,
Hampshire. Buried in CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL, Somme,
France. Grave lost. Commemorated on McCormick's Post Memorial 1.
Also commemorated on Bishopstoke Bells Memorial, Bishopstoke, Hampshire.
Extract
from West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 27 January 1916, page
4:
Lieutenant
William White, age 20, youngest son of Mr. Henry White, of Bishopstoke,
who was recently mentioned in despatches, has has awarded the Military
Cross. He belongs to the Royal West Surrey Regiment.
Extract
from Hampshire Telegraph - Friday 21 January 1916, page
3:
Lieut.
William White, who has been awarded the Military Cross for distinguished
service in the field, is the youngest son of Mr. Henry White, the
well-known County Coroner and solicitor, who lives at Oakbank, Bishopstoke.
Lieut. White belongs to the Royal West Surrey Regiment, but is attached
to the 2nd Bedfordshires for service. He van mentioned in despatches
by Sir John French.
Extract
from Hampshire Independent - Saturday 4 November 1916,
page 7:
IMPESSIVE
MEMORIAL SERVICE
AT BISHOPSTORE.
A
memorial service to the late Lieut. William White, of the Bedfordshire
Regt. (youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, of Bishopstoke),
who was killed in action on October 12th, was held at Bishopstoke
Parish Church Saturday. It will be remembered that the deceased
officer, who won the Military Cross, was desctribed by his colonel
as a gallant officer, a splendid character, and one of the best
officers a company could have. A few minutes before his death he
desired to lead a bombing party to withstand an attack upon a recently
captured trench.
Lieut.
William White was well known at Bishopstoke, and many parishoners,
friends, and others gathered in the church of St. Mary's on Saturday
to pay a tribute of respect to his memory.
Among
the congregation were Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
White, jun., Mr. and Mrs. Harman White, Mr. and Mrs. Birtwhistle,
the Misses Margaret, Edith, and Maud White, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cotton,
Dr. and Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Simmons, sen., Dr. and Mrs. Langley,
Dr. and Mrs. Langley, Mrs. Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. Cumming, Mrs. Gubbinst,
Captain the Hon. R. Moreton, Mrs. Moreton, Mr. A. Messervy, Miss
Wallace, the Misses Stansfeld, Mrs. W. M, Harvey, Mr. G. A. Beattie
(chairman of the Hursley Guardians), Mrs. Beattie, Mr. J. Lawrence
(clerk to the Eastleigh and Bishopstoke Urban Council), Mrs. Lawrence,
Mrs. Cawte, Mr. P. St. J. Bishop, Mrs. Head, Mrs. Tuersley, Miss
Way, Miss Ward, Mr. P. E. Billington, Mr. H. Potter, Mr. W. G. Maffey,
Mr. T. Pointin, Mr. H. Ivill, and others. A number of Boy Scouts
were under Scoutmaster T. Stone.
A
half-muffled peal was rung on the bells before the service, which
was of an impressive character. The choir were in attendance, and
Mr. A. Hill presided at the organ. The service began with the hymn
"The son of God goes forth to war," after which the Rev.
C. H. Thompson, vicar of Newport, formerly of Eastleigh, read opening
Sentences of the Burial Service. The choir then chanted Psalm 46,
and after the Lesson, read by the Rev. M. E. Rush (of Holy Trinity,
Southampton, the National Mission Messenger), the congregation sang
"Fight the good Fight." Further prayers from the Burial
Service were read by the Rev, C. H. Thompson; and in the prayers
offerred by the Rev. S. N. Sedgwick (rector of Bishopstoke) was
one beseeching God "to sanctify the distant grave where our
dear brother is buried to be a peaceful resting place for his body,"
and another "for those who have fallen in the present conflict."
The hymn "Let Saintss on Earth in concert sing" brought
the Service to a conclusion.
Extract
from Biggleswade Chronicle - Friday 10 November 1916, page
3:
COLONEL'S
TRIBUTE TO BRAVE
OFFICER'S MEMORY
Lieut.
William White, M.C. Bedford Regt., was killed on October 12th. He
was educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, and as he did not obtain
his commission immediately enlisted in the Royal West Surrey Regiment
in September, 1914, and within three months received a commission
in that regiment. He went abroad in May, 1915, has been at the front
ever since. While at the front he was attached to the Bedford Regiment,
and was gazetted to a commission in the Regular Army for that regiment
in February last. He was mentioned in dispatches last January subsequently
being awarded the Military Cross. His colonel writes:— "There
was never a finer character or braver man. His loss to me can never
be replaced; he was a brother to us all, and worshipped by the men.
They would do anything for him. He was one of the best officers
and company commanders that I have ever seen.”
Extract
from Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 21 October 1916, page
7:
EASTLEIGH
Much
sympathy will bo extended to Mr. and. Mrs. Henry White, of Oakbank.
Bishopstoke, who lost on October 12th their youngest son, Lieut.
William White, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, who was killed in action
on that date. The deceased officer some time ago was awarded‘the
Military Cross.
Extract
from Norwood News - Friday 10 November 1916, page 5:
Lieut.
Wm. White.
Lieut.
William White, M.C.. Bedford Regiment, was killed on October 12th.
He was the nephew of the Rev. J. Warner, vicar of South Norwood,
and son of his only sister. He was educated at Charterhouse and
Sandhurst, and as he did not obtain his commission he immediately
enlisted in the Royal West Surrey Regiment in September, 1914, and
within three months received a commission in that regiment. He went
abroad in May, 1915, and had been at the front ever since. While
at the front he was attached to the Bedford Regiment, and was gazetted
to a commission in the Regular Army for that regiment in February
last. He was mentioned in dispatches last January, subsequently
being awarded the Military Cross. His colonel writes:—'There
was never a finer character or braver man. His loss to me can never
be replaced ; he was a brother to us all and worshipped by the men.
They would do anything for him. He was one of the best officers
and company commanders that I have ever seen." This is the
second nephew the Vicar has lost during the war. |
| WHITEHEAD |
Charles
Hugh Tempest |
 Major,
56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army formerly Highland
Light Infantry attached 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Killed
in action at the Battle of Loos 25 September 1915. Aged 34. Baptised
16 January 1881 in Escrick, Yorkshire (East Riding). Son of the
late George and Mary Jane Whitehead, of Deighton Grove, York. Served
in the South African Campaign. No known grave. Commemorated on NEUVE-CHAPELLE
MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 23. Also commemorated on
a brass plaque in the Church of St Helen, York Road, Escrick, Selby,
North Yorkshire.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1894:
Whitehead,
Charles Hugh Tempest. b. 26 Oct., 1880. (Gownboys); Left C.Q., 1898.-Joined
Highland L.I., 1901; served in S. African War, 1901.
C. H. T. Whitehead, Esq., Deighton Grove, York.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume
2, page 313:
WHITEHEAD,
CHARLES HUGH TEMPEST, Major, 56th Punjabi Rifles, Indian
Frontier Regt., attd. 10th (Service) Battu. Highland Light Infantry,
7th s. of the late George Whitehead, of Deighton Grove,
York, by his wife, Mary Jane (Deighton Grove, York), dau. of
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines; b. at Scarborough, 26
Oct. 1880; educ. at Charterhouse; joined the Highland Light
Infantry (Militia) in Aug. 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Highland
L.I. 5 Jan. 1901; transferred to Indian Army, and promoted Lieut.
19 Oct. 1903, and Capt. 56th Punjabi Rifles 5 Jan. 1910; served
in the South African War 1901-2; took part in operations in
Cape Colony Oct. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen's Medal with three
clasps); became Double Company Officer 20 March, 1904, and Acting
Adjutant after 1909; was appointed Temp. Major, 10th Highland
L.I. 21 Oct. 1914; went to the front in France May, 1915, and
was killed in action 25-26 Sept. 1915, during the advance at
Loos. Five of his brothers are (1918) on service: Capt. L. 1).
Whitehead (twice wounded in France); Capt. A. V. Whitehead (three
times wounded in France), attached East Surreys; 2nd Lieut.
A. 0. Whitehead (wounded in France), Grenadier Guards; Capt.
F. A. Whitehead, R.N., and Capt. E. T. Whitehead, Intelligence
Dept., War Office; unm.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1916:
WHITEHEAD
Charles Hugh Tempest of Deighton Grove York
major 56th Rifles Indian Frontier Force attached 10th Highland
Light Infantry died 25 September 1915 in France Probate London
20 January to the reverend George Talbot Whitehead clerk. Effects
£8925 16s. 4d.
Extract
from Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 25 January 1916, page
5:
TO-DAY’S
YORKSHIRE WILLS
The
following are amongst the latest wills:
| Gross
Value |
Major CHARLES HUGH TEMPEST WHITEHEAD, of Deighton Grove,
York, of the 56th Rifles (Indian Frontier Regiment), attached
to the 10th Highland Light Infantry Served in the South
African War. Left £50 to the National Service League
for furtherance of the the cause for universal service.
Net personalty £4,678 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .
|
£8,925
|
Extract
from Leeds Mercury - Monday 18 September 1916, page 4:
A
PATRIOTIC FAMILY.
FIVE YORK BROTHERS AND SISTER ACTIVELY SERVING,
Captain
Frederick Aubrey Whitehead, whose name appears in the list of Jutland
honours as a recipient of the Croix d’Officier of the Legion
Honour, is a son of Mrs. Whitehead, of Deighton-grove, York. He
joined the Navy in 1893, and obtained his seniority in 1910.
He
has four brothers serving in the Army, viz., Capt. E. T. Whitehead,
Yorkshire Hussars; Capt. L. D. Whitehead, Monmouthshire Regiment;
Capt. A. V. Whitehead, South Staffordshire Regt.; and Sec.-Lient.
A. O. Whitehead, Grenadier Guards; whilst a sister is Commandant
of the Escrick (York) Red Cross Hospital.
A
fifth brother, Major Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead, Highland Light
Infantry, was killed in action last year.
Extract
from Grantham Journal - Saturday 9 October 1915, page
8, and almost the same in London Evening Standard -
Saturday 2 October 1915, page 5:
MELTON
AND THE WAR.
MAJOR C. H. T. WHITEHEAD.
The
sad intelligence has reached Mrs. Whitehead, Deighten Grove,
York, of the death in action, September 25th or 26th, of her
son, Major Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead, 56th Rifles, Indian
Frontier Regiment, attached to the 10th Battalion Highland Light
Infantry. Major Whitehead was 34 years of age. He came from
a family that has given its all to the service of the nation,
for five of his six brothers are serving in the Forces at tho
present time, and the only remaining one also volunteered, but
was rejected on account of his eyesight. It is interesting note
that Captain A. V. Whitehead. of the East Lancs. Regiment, was
badly wounded for the third time the same day as his brother
was killed. His sister is Commandant of the Escrick Red Cross
Hospital, and his mother has been a firm friend of every local
cause connected with the war. The following are the names of
the members of the family who are serving their King and country:—Capt.
F. A. Whitehead, H.M.S. Magnificent; Capt. E. T. Whitehead,
Yorkshire Hussars; Capt. L. D. Whitehead, 3rd Monmouth Regiment;
Capt. A. V. Whitehead, East Lancs. Regiment; Lieut. A. Whitehead,
H.L. Infantry; Miss Whitehead, Commandant of the Escrick Red
Cross Hospital. Major Hughes-Onslow, who was son-in-law of Mrs.
Whitehead, died on board a transport in the Channel soon after
the outbreak of the war, while on his way to France, where he
have been engaged in the Remount Department. Capt. L. D. Whitehead
was the founder of the Deighton Steel Works, Tredegar, South
Wales. The father of this patriotic family, the late Mr. George
Whitehead, at one time served in the Yorkshire Hussars. He died
while on a visit to Egypt about ten years ago.
Extract
from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday
2 October 1915, page 6:
MAJOR
CHARLES HUGH TEMPEST WHITEHEAD, 96th Punjabi Rifles.
Indian Frontier Regiment, attached to the Highland Light Infantry,
news of whose death in the recent fighting has reached his mother,
Mrs. Whitehead, Deighton Grove, near York, was 34 years of age.
He had served in the South African War. Four of his brothers
are officers in the Army, and a fifth is captain in tho Royal
Navy, while his sister, Miss Whitehead, is commandant of the
Escrick Red Cross Hospital.
Extract
from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday
25 January 1916, page 6:
RECENT
WILLS
Among
the wills recently proved are the following:
Major Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead, of Brighton Grove,
York. 56th Punjab Rifles, attached Highland Light Infantry,
killed action in France on September 25 last, left £50
each to the National Service League, Dr. Barnardo's Homes,
the Boy Scouts, and the Fresh Air Fund; £l00 each
to his sisters, and the residue of his property to his brothers,
"who nobly threw up their positions as directors of
the Whitehead Steel Company to save their country"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|
£8,925
|
|
| WHITEHEAD,
MiD |
Hugh
Maguire |
Lieutenant,
5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion (Territorial) attached 8th Battalion,
Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action 21 March 1918. Aged 23.
Born 13 May 1895. Baptised 27 June 1895 in Collaton St Mary, Devon.
Son of Mrs. Whitehead, of Orchardleigh, Paignton, Devon, and the
late Percy Whitehead; brother of Percy (below - both died on the
same day). In the 1911 census he was aged 15, born Paignton, Devon,
at school, son of Elizabeth Reid Whitehead (a widow), resident Bay
Mount Southfield Road, Paignton, Devon. Mentioned in Despatches
(MiD). No known grave. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme,
France. Panel 46 and 47.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1919:
WHITEHEAD
Hugh Maguire of South Mount Paignton Devonshire
lieutenant Royal Sussex regiment died on or since 21 March 1918
in France Administration London 24 January to Elizabeth
Reid Whitehead widow.
Effects £163 3s.
Extract
from Western Times - Wednesday 22 May 1918, page 3, and
Friday 24 May 1918, page 9:
ROLL
OF HONOUR
West - Country Soldiers in Latest
Casualty List
Lieut.
Hugh Maguire Whitehead, who is reported killed, was born at Barton
Pines, Paignton, in May, 1895, and was educated at Charterhouse.
He enlisted in the Cyclist Battalion of the Devon Regiment on August
6th, 1914, and was given his commission in the same Battalion in
November of that year. In February, 1916, he transferred to the
Royal Sussex Regiment, joining them in France, and was severely
wounded in October the same year. He rejoined his regiment in March,
1917, and, after a year's consecutive service in France, was again
transferred to his County Regiment, but fell in action before he
joined them. On the morning March 21st, 1918, with six volunteers
of the Royal Sussex Regiment, he went on a reconnoissance, and was
officially reported missing, but has since been unofficially reported
killed. |
| WHITEHEAD,
MC, MSM |
Percy
Neil |
Captain,
174th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 21 March
1918 in France. Aged 29. Born 16 December 1888, baptised 9 June
1889 in Collaton St Mary, Devon, son of Percy and Elizabeth Reid
Whitehead. Resident Paignton. Son of Mrs. Whitehead, of Orchardleigh,
Paignton, Devon, and the late Percy Whitehead; brother of Hugh (both
died on the same day). Educated Charterhouse and Camborne School
of Mines (1910-1913). Also served in German South West Africa. Awared
the Military Cross (M.C.) and Meritorious Service Medal (M.S.M.).
In the 1891 he was aged 2, born Essex, resident with his mother,
Elizabeth R Whitehead, at Barton Pines, Oakleigh Terrace, Paignton,
Totnes, Devon. No known grave. Commemorated at ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas
de Calais, France. Bay 1. See also Camborne
School of Mines
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1918:
WHITEHEAD
Percy Neil of South Mount Paignton Devonshire
captain R.E. M.C. died 21 March 1918 in France Administration London
26 September to Elizabeth Reid Whitehead
widow. Effects £1073 18s. 8d.
Extract
from Evening Mail - Monday 21 August 1916, page 6:
Temp.
Lt. (temp Capt.) PERCY NEIL WHITEHEAD. R.E.
For conspicuous gallantry. When a party of out troops
had lost their direction during an attack, he immediately went
out and led them to the correct line. At the enemy's parapet he
was wopunded in two places at a point blank range, but was rescued.
His gallant act saved a serious situation.
|
| WHITEROD |
Alfred
George Wallace |
Company
Quartermaster Serjeant WR.501371. Born in Steyning, Sussex in
the first quarter of 1883. Son of Thomas Whiterod (a Coach Builder);
husband of Alice (nee Boxall) Whiterod of 2, Quarry Road, Hurtmore,
Godalming, Surrey, married 1 April 1907 in Shackleford, St Mary,
Surrey. He was a Carpenter at the time of his marriage. The 1891
census shows him as a ‘pauper inmate’ in Steyning
workhouse, along with his [?] father. He does not appear in the
1901 census, hence perhaps he had taken the ‘Queen’s
shilling’ and served in South Africa, later became a reservist
and was recalled to the colours in 1915. He served with the Royal
Engineers, 5th Port Construction Company, Inland Water Transport
from 11 October 1915. Went to France 28 June 1917 with B.E.F.
Qualification listed as Foreman Carpenter. He was attached to
3rd Port Construction Company, Royal Engineers when he was accidentally
killed at Rouen (fractured skull) when a French Motor Car ran
into him knocking hm over on the public road near his camp on
the night of 11/12 November 1918; he was aged 35. His grave is
in ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France.
Section S. Plot III. Row Y. Grave 20.
He
is one of the names added later to the Chapel panels, after
their installation. He was neither a boy nor a master at Charterhouse.
He was probably therefore a member of the ground or domestic
staff, records of whom for the period are incomplete. Referring
to the C.W.G.C. register 1914 - 1918, he can be identified beyond
reasonable doubt.
Extract
from Witness statement and Summary of Evidence - note
some dates listed as October but should be November:
Summary
of evidence in the case of the accident to the u/m N.C.O's
of No.3 Port Construction Coy., R.E., OISSEL, on the night
of October [sic]
11th, 1918
(Killed) No. WR/501371, C.Q..S. Whiterod, A.G.W.
*(Severely Injured No. WR/505656, Corporal Collins, A.G.
Cpl.Collins has since died. He died on the afternoon of 13/11/18.
1st Witness: No. WR/509523,-Sgt. Nicholls, w., states:-
At about 12 o'clock midnight on 11th October [sic
- corrected in pencil to November], 1918, I was
walking from OISSEL on the OISSEL - S. ETIENNE road, with
Sgt. Jordan, C.Q.M.S. Whiterod, Cpl. Collins and Cpl. Gittus.
When we were about 500 yards from the port Construction Camp,
a French touring car ran into us. Three of us were knocked
down by it. C.Q.M.S. Whiterod was killed and Cpl. Collins
severely injured.
I heard no horn sounded, or warning of any sort.
The car appeared to be travelling very fast. The driver pulled
up in about 15 yards after running into us.
(Signed) W. Nicholls,
Sgt. R.E.
Taken down by me in the presence of the Witness.
-
2 -
2nd
Witness: No. WR/504238, Sgt. Jordan, E., states:-
On
the night of the 11/11/18, at about midnight, I was walking
along the OISSEL - ST ETIENNE road in the direction of ST. ETIENNE
with C.Q.M.S. Whiterod, Sgt. Nicholls, Cpl. Collins and Cpl.
Gittus, all of No.3 Port Construction Camp.
A French car ran into us when we were about a quarter of a mile
from our camp, No.3 Port Construction.
I heard no horn or warning of any sort.
The car knocked over C.Q.M.S. Whiterod, Cpl. Collins and Sgt.
Nicholls.
C.Q.M.S. Whiterod was killed and Cpl. Collins was very badly
injured.
The car was travelling very fast, and did not pull up for about
20 yards after running us down.
I took the number of the car.
I then went to the Port Construction Camp and telephoned for
the Doctor and an ambulance.
I spoke to the driver of the car. I think he was sober at the
time.
Sgt., R.E.
Taken down by me in the presence of the Witness.
Capt., R.F.A.
3rd
Witness: No. WR/503780, Cpl. Gittus, G., states:.
On the night of October 11th [sic], 1918, I was walking back
from OISSEL to the Port Constructio Camp, near ST. ETIENNE,
with C.Q.M.S. Whiterod, Sgt. Nicholls, Sgt. Jordan and Cpl.
Collins.
When
we were about a quarter of a mile from our camp, a French
car suddenly ran into us.
It
knocked down C.Q.M.S. Whiterod, Cpl. Collins and Sgt. Nicholls.
C.Q.M.S.
Whiterod was killed and Cpl. Collins badly injured.
I heard no sound from the car before it ran into us. It was
evidently travelling very fast.
It pulled up about 20 yards after running into us.
The
accident happened about midnight.
C.Q.M.S. Whiterod was walking on the left of the party, so would
be nearest the centre of the road.
Taken
down by me in the presence of the Witness.
Capt., R.F.A.
|
| WHITFIELD,
MiD |
Gilbert
Henry |
 Second
Lieutenant, Indian Reserve of Officers attached to 14th King George's
Own Freozepore Sikhs. Killed in action 8 August 1915. Born 30 April
1888. Baptised 10 June 1888 in Wimbledon, St Mary, Surrey, son of
William Henry and Amy Elizabeth Whitfield, resident Wimbledon. In
the 1891 census he was aged 3, born Wimbledon, Surrey, son of William
H and Amy Elizabeth Whitfield, resident Abbotsford, Woodside, Wimbledon,
Kingston, Surrey. Educated Charterhouse and King's College London
(Engineering) (1906-1909). Planter in Sri Lanaka 1909-1914 where
he was Private 2039 in the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps. Mentioned
in Despatches (MiD). No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL,
Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 253. Also commemorated on the
Wimbledon Warrior Memorial, Surrey
Extract
from London Evening Standard - Monday 6 September 1915,
page 7:
Second
Lieutenant Gilbert Henry Whitfield, of the 14th Sikhs, who was killed
in action at the Dardanelles, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Whitfield.
of Dumbarton-road, Wimbledon. The deceased was only 27 years of
age, and, being in Ceylon at the outbreak of the was, he joined
the 'Tea Planters' Rifle Corps, who left for England to complete
their training. Through Turkey entering into the conflict, the corps
was landed at Port Said, where Mr. Whitfield obtained his commission.
He was attached to the 51st Sikhs, afterwards transferring to the
14th. |
| WHITTLE |
Cyril
Herbert Spencer |
Lieutenant, 15th (The King's) Hussars. Killed in action near Mons
24 August 1914. Aged 31. Son of Herbert John Whittle. In the 1891
census he was aged 7, born Sutton, Yorkshire, a scholar, son of
Herbert J and Caroline H Whittle, resident Stephenson Terrace, New
Walk, St Mary, Beverley, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (East Riding).
No known grave. Commemorated on LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL,
Seine-et-Marne, France.
Extract
from Bexhill-on-Sea Observer - Saturday 12 September
1914, page 10:
Heartfelt
sympathy will be extended to Lieut.-Colonel Whittle, the recruiting
officer for the Hastings district, which includes Bexhill, in
the sad news received by telegram that his son, an officer in
the 15th Hussars, has been killed in action in France. The late
Mr. C. H. S. Whittle was 32 years of age, and was educated at
Charterhouse, going thence to Sandhurst. He joined the Yorkshire
Light Infantry (mounted), and subsequently the 15th Hussars. He
was seconded for the Egyptian Army, and was awarded a medal for
an expedition to the interior. On leave at the time of the outbreak,
he rejoined the 15th Hussars, and immediately went to the Front.
He was unmarried.
Extract
from Army and Navy Gazette - Saturday 12 September 1914,
page 14:
LIEUT.
CYRIL HERBERT SPENCE WHITTLE, 15th HUSSARS.
Lieut. C H. S. Whittle, aged thirty-one, was formerly serving with
the Egyptian Army, which he joined January, 1912 Ha was gazetted
2ad Lieut, in the Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1932, and was promoted
Lieutenant in 1906, and transferred the 15th Hussars two years later.
|
| WILKINSON |
Bernard
Kedington Rodwell |
 Captain,
7th Battalion [SDGW states 6th Battalion (Territorial)], Prince
of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment). Died of wounds 24 January
1918. Aged 45. Born 4 November 1872 in Highgate, Middlesex. Son
of the late Col. Josiah and Mrs. Wilkinson; husband of Margaret
Mary (nee Cripps) Wilkinson, of "Grassways," Dunsfold,
Surrey, married 7 July 1900 at St Margaret, Westminster. Native
of Highgate, London. Educated Charterhouse and New College, Oxford.
Listed in the Royal And Imperial Calendars 1912, 1913, 1915, as
an officer of the Duchyof Cornwall, Assistant Secretary. Buried
in BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey. Plot VI. Row A. Grave 4.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1887:
Wilkinson,
Bernard Kedington Rodwell. b. 14 Nov., 1872. (Saunderites); Football
XI, 1888-'89, '89-'90, '90-'91; Left C.Q., 1891. New Coll., Oxf.;
M.A. played Football for Old Carthusians (Winners of the Amateur
Cup, 1897; the London Senior Cup, 1895, '97). - Barrister, 1898;
Inner Temple; Oxford Circuit.
B. K. R. Wilkinson, Esq., 35, Porchester Square, W.
Extract
from Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 7 July 1900, page
2:
MARRIAGES
Wilkinson—Cripps—June
30, at Saint Margaret’s, Westminster, by the Rev. L. R.
Phelps. Fellow of Oriel College. Oxford, assisted by the Rev.
F. H. Slocock, Rector of Mottisfont, Hants, Bernard Kedington
Rodwell. youngest son of Colonel Wilkinson, of Southampton Lodge,
Highgate, to Margaret Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Lawrence
Cripps, of 12, Southwell-gardens, South Kensington.
Extract
from The London Gazette - 9 April 1918, page 4337:
BERNARD
KEDINGTON RODWELL WILKINSON, Deceased.
Pursuant to the Statute 22 and 23 Vic., cap. 35.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all persons having any claims against
the estate of Bernard Kedington Bothwell Wilkinson, of 3, Courtfield-road,
London S.W., Barrister-at-Law and a Captain in the 7th Staffordshire
Regiment (who died on. the 24th day of January, 1918, at 18,
Cadogan-gardens, Chelsea, and whose will was proved at London,
on the 5th day of March, 1918, by Margaret Mary Wilkinson, the
sole executrix), are required, to send particulars thereof'
to the undersigned, on or before the 11th day of May, 1918,
after which date the assets of the said deceased will be distributed
by the said executrix, and regard had only to the claims of
which she shall then have had notice.—Dated this 8th day
of April, 1918.
PEACOCK and GODDARD, 3, South-square, Grays Inn, W.C., Solicitors
for the said, Executrix.
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| WILLIAMS |
Charles
James |
 Lieutenant.
Born 21 April 1887, 2nd son of Henry Clissold Williams, I.C.S.,
and Mary Williams, of 16, The Beacon, Exmouth, Devon. Baptised 23
May 1887 in North Tawton, Devon. In the 1891 census he was aged
3, born North Tawton, Devon, resident with a brother and sister
at Ashbridge House, North Tawton, Okehampton, Devon. In the 1901
census he was aged 13, born North Tawton, Devon, a school boarder,
resident Hindhead Road, Godalming, Guildford, Surrey. He was at
Charterhouse [R then D] 1900 - 1906, he won a scholarship
to Clare College, Cambridge (B.A. and B.C.L., Cantab.) and became
a solicitor. In the 1911 census he was aged 23, born North Tawton,
Devon, a Solicitor's Articled Clerk, son of Mary Williams, resident
2 -4, Clapham Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire. In the Great War he was
commissioned into the Bedfordshire Regiment and joined 8th Bn. He
died of wounds on 19 December 1915, aged 28, when he was caught
by gas shells and died from the effects at No. 10 Casualty Clearing
Station (CCS). His grave is at LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Plot II. Row A. Grave 14. See also Bedford
St Andrew's and Bedford
St Martin's War Memorial, Bedford.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1900:
Williams,
Charles James. b. 21 April, 1887. (Robinites- Daviesites).
C. J. Williams, Claremont, St. Leonard' s Road, Exeter.
Extract
from Luton Times and Advertiser - Friday 31 December
1915, page 6:
Bedfordshire
Officer’s Death.
Lieutenant
Charles James Williams, who died on Dec. 19th from wounds and
gas poisoning received near Ypres, was the second son of Mr. H.
C. Williams, Deputy-Mayor of Bedford, and formerlycommissioner
in Bengal. Born in 1887, educated at Charterhouse and Clare College,
Cambridge, where he obtained an open classical scholarship in
1906, took his degree in 1909 after getting second in classical
and historical tripos, and later took degree of Bachelor of Civil
Law. On leaving the university he entered the office of Messrs.
Walker and Martineau, solicitors, Theobald-road, London, and became
a solicitor in 1911. He joined the Inns of Court Training Corps
on the day after declaration of the war, and was gazetted to the
8th Bedfordshire Regiment.
Extract
from Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday
24 December 1915, page 5:
We
deeply regret to announce the death at the front of Lieut.
Charles James Williams, 8th Bedfords, second eon of Mr.
H. C. Williams, Deputy Mayor of Bedford, and formerly
Commissioner in Bengal. On Tuesday a telegram was received
by Mr. Williams, which briefly stated that death was due
to wounds and gas poisoning, and occurred near Ypres.
A promising career has thus been cut shot. Born in 1887,
Lieut. Williams was educated at Charterhouse and Clare
College, Cambridge, where he obtained an Open Classical
Scholarship in 1906. He took his degree in 1909 after
getting a second in Classics and History, and afterwards
took the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. leaving the University
he entered the firm of Messrs. Walker and Martineau, Theobalds-road,
London, and became a solicitor in 1911. The day after
war was declared he joined the Inns of Court Training
Corps, and was gazetted to the 8th Batt. Beds. Regt.,
as soon as it was formed. He went out to France last August,
and is the first officer of the 8th Battalion to be reported
killed. Lieut. Williams was well-known in Bedford, and
the kindly and pleasant nature which made him so popular
in civil life, endeared him to his brother officers, a
fact made evident by the many messages of sympathy that
have been received by the bereaved family. He frequently
played hockey for Bedford and County XI. Mr. Williams’
youngest son is still a prisoner in German East Africa,
having been captured in November, 1914. The deepest sympathy
will be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Williams in the great
loss that has befallen them.
Extract
from Newcastle Journal - Monday 27 December 1915, page
2:
Lieutenant
Charles James Williams, 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (died
on December 19 of wounds and gas poisoning sustained near Ypres),
was the second son of Mr H. C. Williams, Deputy Mayor of Bedford,
and formerly Commissioner in Bengal. Born in 1887, he was educated
at Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained
an open classical scholarship in 1906. He took his degree in 1909
after getting a second in classical and historical tripos, and
afterwards received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. On leaving
Cambridge he entered the office of Messrs. Walker and Martineau,
solicitors, Theobald's Road, London, and was admitted a solicitor
in 1911. He joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on
the day after declaration of war, and was gazetted to the 8th
Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, receiving promotion to the rank
of lieutenant in February of this year.
Extract
from Broad Arrow - Friday 31 December 1915, page 26:
Lieut.
Charles James Williams, 8th (Service) Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment,
who died on the 19th inst., in Flanders, from the effects of
wounds and gas poisoning, was the second son of Mr. H. C. Williams
(Indian Civil Service, retired), of Bedford, and was twenty-eight
years of age. He was a solicitor by profession and was appointed
a temporary lieutenant in February last.
Extract
from Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 29 December
1915, page 3:
WILLIAMS,
Lieut. C. J., 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment.
[Lieutenant
Charles James Williams was 28 years of age, and the second
son of Mr. H. C. Williams, deputy-mayor Bedford, and formerly
Commisssioner in Bengal. He was educated at Charterhouse and
Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained an open classical
scholarship in 1906. He obtained his degree in 1909, and subsequently
received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. On leaving Cambridge
he entered the office of a London solicitor, and was admitted
a solicitor in 1911. He received his commission from the Inns
of Court Officers’ Training Corps, which he joined the
day following the declaration war. He was promoted full lieutenant
in February of this year.]
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| WILLIAMS |
Idris
Havard Joseph |
 Captain,
3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Died of
wounds 3 June 1915. Born 29 December 1878 in Neath Registration
District, Glamorganshire. Baptised 27 July 1879 in Llanfabon, Glamorganshire,
son of Thomas and Amelia Williams. In the 1881 census he was aged
1, born Glamorganshire, son of Thomas and Amelia Williams, resident
Graig Berthllwyd Victoria Inn, Llanfabon, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire,
Wales. In the 1891 census he was aged 11, born Llanfabon, Glamorganshire.
son of Thomas and Amelia Wiliams, resident Primrose Villa, Prospect
Place, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales. Buried in ABERPERGWM
(ST. CADOC) CHURCHYARD AND PRIVATE EXTENSION, Glamorganshire.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1893:
Williams,
Idris Havard Joseph . b. 29 Dec., 1878. (Weekites); Left C.Q., 1896.-Joined
5th Royal Fusiliers, 1899; served in S. African War, 1899-1902; joined
2nd Batt., 1901.
L H. J. Williams, Esq.. St. Donato Castle, Llantewit Major,
Glamorganshire.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1,
page 379-380:
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.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1916:
WILLIAMS
Idris Havard Joseph of 9 Stratford place Oxford-street
Middlesex captain Royal Fusiliers died 3 June
1915 at the Army hospital Boulogne France Probate London
30 May to Sybil Williams spinster. Effects £12196 18s. 9d.
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| WILLIAMS |
James |
Captain,
18th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Died of wounds 22 July 1916.
Aged 20. Son of James and Josephine Anne Mathew Williams, of Dessmuir,
Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 5, born Aberdeen,
Aberdeenshire, son of James and Josephine A Williams, resident Albyn
Place, 39, Aberdeen, St Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Buried
in LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE, Somme, France. Plot I.
Row D. Grave 29.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1916:
WILLIAMS
James of Dakota Aboyne Aberdeenshire lieutenant
18th battalion Lancashire Fusiliers died 22 July 1916 in France
Confirmation of James Williams distiller and wholesale spirit merchant.
Sealed London 15 November. |
| WILLIAMSON |
John
Alexander |
 Lieutenant
(Pilot), 28 Reserve Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 10th (Royal
East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent
Regiment). Killed in a flying accident, in a Sopwith 1½ Strutter,
serial number A1113, caused by error of judgment, 10 April 1917.
Aged 20. Son of John James and Mary Williamson, of Hawks Hill House,
Walmer. Buried in WALMER (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD, Kent.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1918:
WILLIAMSON
John Alexander of Walmer Kent lieutenant East Kent
Mounted Rifles attached R.F.C. died 10 April 1917 at Ullesthorpe
Leicestershire Administration London 6 May to John
James Williamson solicitor.
Effects £245 0s.10d.
Extract
from Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph - Saturday
21 April 1917, page 5, and Maidstone Telegraph - Saturday
21 April 1917, page 5:
Lieut.
John Alexander Williamson, R. East Kent Mounted Rifles and Royal
Flying Corps, eldest son of Mr. J. J. Williamson, of Hawks Hill
House, Walmer, was killed while flying in Liecestershire. With
Corpl. C.. M. Rider, an Australian, he had gone on a flight
for the purpose of delivering a message, and was returning to
the starting point when something went wrong, and the machine
crashed to the earth. Both men were killed instantaneously.
At the Inquest, when a verdict of "Accidental Death"
was returned, it was stated there was nothing to indicate what
caused the mishap.
Extract
from Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday
21 April 1917, page 2:
LIEUTENANT
JOHN WILLIAMSON, OF
DEAL, KILLED WHILE FLYING
The
death occurred last week, as the result of an accident while
flying of Lieutenant John Alexander Williamson, aged 21, eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. J, J. Williamson of Upper Wahner. Educated
at Tunbridge Wells and at the Charterhouse, Lieut, received
a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal East Kent Mounted
Rifles Sept. 1914, and saw active service with his corps in
Gallipoli and Egypt. He was afterwards attached to the Royal
Flying Corps, and halving obtained a pilot's certificate, went
to the Somme, where in the course of his duty he made many flights
over the enemy's lines. In January this year he returned to
England on account of frostbite. After a short period of leave
at home he reported for duty near Birmingham, and it was while
flying over Leicestershire that the fatal accident occurred.
His machine, which was travelling very fast and high, came crashing
down and the lieutenant, strapped in his seat, and the observer,
who fell out, were killed. Lieut. Williamson's younger brother,
Midshipman E. J. Williamson, at the age of 15, was lost in H.M.S.
Bulwark, which was blown up off Shearness in November, 1914.
Extract
from Leicester Chronicle - Saturday 14 April 1917,
page 2 (another version is reported in the Leicester Journal
- Friday 20 April 1917, page 3):
AEROPLANE
SMASH.
Lieutenant and Corporal Killed in Leicestershire.
Evidence at the Inquest.
Two
airmen, Lieut. J. A. Williamson and Corporal G. M. Ryder, were
killed while flying at a great height shortly after six o'clock
on Tuesday evening. The machine was observed to be in difficulties,
and it turned over and crashed to earth, instantly killing both
passengers.
The
inquest on the bodies of Lieut. John Alexander Williamson, East
Kent Yeomanry, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, and Corporol
Clifford M. Ryder, of the Australian Flying Corps, was held
on Thursday.
The
coroner, after referring to the accident, said he was sure the
jury all sympathised with the relatives and friends of the deceased
men, who had lost their lives in defending the people and the
country just as much as if they had been killed in France.
A
flight-commander of the R.F.C. gave evidence of identification,
and said the machine with Lieut. Williamson as pilot, and Corpf
Ryder as observer, left the flying ground on Tuesday afternoon.
When they started the weather was moderately windy, with local
snow showers. Witness had been on the machine that morning,
and it was then in perfect order. Before the machine left the
ground it was examined and found to be all right. Lieut. Williamson
was an experienced aviator, and was an instructor. After the
accident witness examined the machine, but it was impossible
to say how the accident occurred. Both the officer and corporal
appeared to be in good health when they left the flying ground.
He did not think, with an experienced pilot like Lieut. Williamson,
that the machine getting into a snow cloud would account for
the accident.
A
local doctor gave evidence to the effect that death was instantaneous
in each case. There was no traces, on the bodies, of an explosion.
A
retired army doctor said he was particularly struck by the composed,
peaceful expression on Lieut. Williamson's face, so different
from what he had seen in similar fatalities. From the pallor
of the face he might have fainted, or become unconcious, before
the machine fell or while it was falling. He might have fainted
or become unconcious before the machine got out of control.
A
local police officer said he saw the aeroplane, at 5.50 p.m.
on Tuesday, flying at a great height. He could bear the hum
of the engine all the time it was in sight. He lost sight of
the aeroplane when it got into a snow cloud. Snow was falling,
but not very heavily. It was blowing hard and the machine was
meeting wind and snow. After he lost sight of the machine he
heard an explosion, and a crack, as if someone was shooting.
The
Flight Commander, interposing; said the explosion or the crack
might have been the noise made by one of the wings breaking
or snapping.
The
constable proceeding, said that after hearing the noise he looked
up, and saw the machine diving. Before it reached the ground
one of the men fell out of the machine. Corparal Ryder's body
was in one field and the machine and Lieut. Williannon's body
in another about 100 yards away.
A
farmer from the locality deposed to seeing the machine going
into a snow cloud and then falling. He ran to the spot, and
was the first to reach the machine. The airman in the machine
was quite dead.
This
concluded the evidence, and the Coroner said there was only
one conclusion they could come to, and that was that it was
an accident. He did not think there was a shadow of blame on
anyone. They all knew the courage of our airmen, and if it had
not been for the mastery of the air on the part of our airmen
the recent advance in France might have been anything but the
success it had proved.
A
verdict of "Accidental death" was returned, and the
foreman said the jury desired to express their sympathy with
the relatives and friends of the deceased men. It was owing
to the courage of such men that people at home were protected,
and they ought to be proud that they had such men in the Empire.
The
Coroner joined in the jury's expression of sympathy.
Mr.
Williamson, speaking under stress of great emotion, said he
desired to thank the Coroner and jury for their sympathy, and
also every one who had been so kind to them in their sad bereavement.
Lieut.
Williamson's home was at Walmer, Kent, and though he was only
20 years of age he had seen service in France and Gallipoli,
and had driven an armoured car across the desert in Tripoli.
His younger brother, a midshipman, lost his life in the explosion
on H.M.S. Bulwark.
Other
newspapers record various versions of the above including:
-
Deal,
Walmer & Sandwich Mercury - Saturday 14 April 1917,
page 3
-
Whitstable
Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 21 April 191,7
page 2
-
South
Eastern Gazette - Tuesday 17 April 1917, page 3
-
Deal,
Walmer & Sandwich Mercury - Saturday 21 April 1917,
page 3
-
Leicester
Daily Post - Monday 16 April 1917, page 2
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| WILLS |
Robert
Bruce Melville |
Captain, 2nd (Wessex) Field Company, Royal Engineers. (T.F.). -
Mentioned in Despatches. Killed in action 15 February 1915. Aged
24. Recommended for V.C. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Melville Wills,
of Bracken Hill, Leigh Woods, Bristol, and of "Killilan,"
Ross-shire; husband of Beryl (Daisy) E. Wills, of Birdcombe Court,
Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Charterhouse, and Trinity College,
Cambridge. In the 1891 census he was newborn, born Bristol, son
of Walter M and Louisa G Wills, resident Alfarnaes, Elton Road,
Bristol, Gloucestershire. In the 1901 census he was aged 10, born
Bristol, Gloucestershire, son of Walter M and Louisa G Wills, resident
Bracken Hill, Leigh Woods, Long Ashton, Somerset. In the 1911 census
he was aged 20, born Bristol, a Cambridge Undergraduate, boarding
at Tynycornel Hotel, Talyllyn Corris, Talyllyn, Merionethshire,
Wales. No known grave. Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 9. See also Trinity
College, Cambridge and also All Saints
Church War Memorial, Wraxall Avon
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916,
volume 2, page 513-514:
CAPTAIN
ROBERT BRUCE MELVILLE WILLS, 2nd WESSEX FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS
(T.F.), serving with an Imperial Service Unit, was the
second son of W. Melville Wills, of Leigh Woods, Somersetshire,
and Killilan, Ross-shire.
He was born on the 26th May, 1890, at Clifton, Bristol, and was
educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
was in the O.T.C. for three years (1908-11), and where he took an
Honours Degree in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. He was gazetted
2nd Lieutenant in the R.E. (T.F.) in June, 1911, and passed first
on the list of his year after his course of instruction at Chatham;
he was promoted Lieutenant in September, 1913, and Captain in September,
1914. He was killed on the 15th February, 1915, at St. Eloi, while
helping to carry out a wounded officer, who lay, the sole occupant,
in a trench Captain Wills and his men had been sent to repair.
Captain Wills married Beryl Emmeline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
R. Sutton, of Clifton, Bristol, and left one daughter, Ione Bruce
Melville, born after her father's death in July, 1915. Captain Wills'
recreations were stalking, shooting, fishing and hunting.
Extract
from Clifton Society - Thursday 27 May 1915, page 6, and
Central Somerset Gazette - Friday 28 May 1915, page 6:
CAPTAIN
WILLS.
Captain
Robert Bruce Melville Wills, 2nd Wessex Field Co., R.E., of Birdcombe
Court, Wraxall, tobacco manufacturer, who was killed in action near
St. Eloi on the 15th February last, son of Mr. Melville Wills (a
director of the Imperial Tobacco Company, Limited), left unsettled
property of the gross value of £12,476 1s. 11d. Probate has
been granted to his widow, Mrs. Beryl Emmeline Wills, the sole executrix.
The testator left £200 to Mrs. Eleanor Farley, and all other
his property to his wife absolutely. |
| WILLSON |
Edgar
Brian |
 Lieutenant.
Born 26 May 1893, 2nd son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Willson, of 11,
The Beacon, Exmouth. In the 1901 census he was aged 7, born Streatham,
Surrey, son of Samuel and Marion Wilson, resident Rosendale, College
Road, Epsom, Surrey. He was at Charterhouse [W] 1907-1911. In the
1911 census he was aged 17, born Streatham, London, a school boarder,
resident Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey. He was commissioned into
the 8th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment but later joined
the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), serving with 25th Battalion. He
was killed in action on the Marne 27 May 1918. He is commemorated
on the SOISSONS MEMORIAL, Aisne, France. Also commemorated on Fishbourne
War Memorial, Sussex
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1919:
WILLSON
Edgar Brian of Salt Mill. House near Chichester
lieutenant Machine Gun Corps died 27 May 1918 in France Administration
Chichester 31 January to Samuel Willson (the
younger) gentleman.
Effects £210 19s. 11d.
Extract
from Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 15 June 1918, page
5:
Lieut.
E. B. Willson M.G.C., killed on May 27th, was the younger son
of Mr. S. Willson, jun., of Chichester, and late of Down Lodge,
Epsom.
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| WILSON |
Charles
Edgar Andrew |
 Captain.
Born 30 November 1876, eldest son of The Rev. Alfred Wilson, M.A.,
Vicar of Bedford Park, Chiswick, London, and Fanny Wilson; husband
of Mary Barnes Wilson, of The North House, Petworth, Sussex; brother
of Laurence Trench Wilson (below).
In the 1881 census he was aged 4, born Hammersmith, Middlesex, son
of Alfred and Fanny Wilson, resident 2, Woodstock Road, Bedford
Park, Chiswick, Brentford, Middlesex. He was at Charterhouse [D]
1891-1895. In the 1891 census he was aged 14, born Hammersmith,
Middlesex, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse, L Marshall,
Sandy Road, Godalming, Guildford, Surrey. He went up to Christ Church
College, Oxford where he read medicine. Listed in the Medical Register
1913 as resident Petworth, Sussex, registered 6 October 1902, M.B.,
Bacheor of Surgery 1902, University College, Ocford. He joined the
Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the Rifle Brigade.
He died of wounds on 8 April 1918, aged 41. His grave is at ETRETAT
CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, Seine-Maritime, France. Plot II. Row C. Grave
9. See also Petworth
War memorial, Sussex.
Extract
from the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1891:
Wilson,
Charles Edgar Andrew. b. 30 Nov., 1876. (Daviesites), Science Exhibitioner;
Left C.Q., 1895. Ch. Ch., Oxf.; B.A.; M.B.; B.Ch.-Medical Student,
St. Thomas' Hospital.
C. E. A. Wilson, Esq., St. Thomas' Hospital, S.E.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume
3, page 288:
WILSON,
CHARLES EDGAR ANDREW, Capt.; R.A.M.C., attd. 9th Battn.The
Rifle Brigade, s. of the late Rev. Alfred Wilson, Vicar
of St. Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London,
W., by his. wife, Fanny, dam. of Charles Henry Cobbe, Major
Bengal Infantry; b. London, 30 Nov. 1877; educ. Ashtead,
co. Surrey; Charterhouse, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he
obtained Final First Class Honours in-Physiology; joined St.
Thomas's Hospital,. London, S.W., in 1899; graduated in 1902;
subsequently held house appointments at the. General Hospital,
Birmingham, and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick
Children, London, W.C., and later practised at Petworth, co.
Sussex; gazetted Capt. R.A.M.C. in Sept. 1916; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from that month,
and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Etretat, 8 April, 1918,
from wounds received In action at St. Quentin, on the 28th of
the previous month. The Colonel of the Northumberland Fusiliers,
to which he was attached, wrote: "He was loved and admired
by us all, and I know that personally I have lost a great friend,
one of the kindest and most sympathetic men I have known,"
and the Colonel of the Rifle Brigade: "h is a great loss
to us all, the best doctor we ever had; we all loved him."
He was recommended for the Military Cross for conspicuous courage
and bravery under heavy fire, He m. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
23 April, 1908, Mary (The North House, Petworth. co. Sussex),
dau. of Nicholas Mein, and had a son, Richard Nicholas, b. 27
Feb. 1909.
Extract
from National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),
1918:
WILSON
Charles Edgar Andrew of the North House Petworth Sussex
captain R.A.M.0 died 8 April 1918 in France Probate London
7 August to Mary Barnes Wilson widow and the Public Trustee.
Effects £8450 14s. 3d.
Extract
from Middlesex County Times - Saturday 20 April 1918,
page 5:
"PRO
PATRIA."
CAPTAIN C. E. A. WILSON
Capt. Charles Edgar Andrew Wilson, R.A.M.C., who died of wounds
on April 8, aged 41. was the eldest son of the late Rev. A.
Wilson, formerly vicar of St. Michael and All Angels', Bedford
Park, and of Mrs. Wilson, of 4, Sheffield-terrace, Kensington.
He was educated at Mr. Sidney Johnson's School, Ashstead, Surrey,
at Charterbouae (Davisites), and Christ Church, Oxford, where
he obtained First-Class Final Honours in Physiology. He then
joined St. Thomas's Hospital, London, for the medical curriculum,
and finally settled into practice at Petworth. He volunteered
for active service in 1916. He was at first attached to the
Northumberland Fusiliers, and later to the Rifle Brigade, and
during the entire period of his service was engaged in front
line duty. He had been recommended for the Military Cross for
conspicuous courage in tending the wounded under heavy fire,
and it was while being so engaged that he was severely wounded.
In spite of the extreme gravity of his wounds, he insisted on
others being attended to first. His brother, Lieut. Laurence
Trench Wilson, R.G.A., was killed in France in 1915, and another
brother, Lieut. Harold Cobbe Wilson, Middlesex R., was kil!ed
at Spion Kop. Of his two remaining brothers, one is serving
in France and the other in Salonika. Capt. Wilson leaves a widow
and one young son.
|
| WILSON |
Geoffrey
Hutton |
 [Listed
as Geoffrey HUTTON WILSON in some records but sometimes listed as
Geoffrey Hutton WILSON in other records] Lieutenant, Royal Engineers.
Died on service 23 December 1918. Aged 34. Born 28 May 1884. Son
of Robert Hutton Wilson and Adeline Cecilia Hutton Wilson, of Buttsfield
House, Egglesclifle, Co. Durham; husband of Barbara Hutton Wilson,
of Westholme, Prestwich Park. In the 1891 census he was aged 6,
born Durham, son of Robert H and Adeline C Wilson, resident Eaglescliffe
Village, Egglescliffe, Stockton, Durham. In the 1901 census he was
a schoolboy, aged 16, born Egglescliff, Durham, pupil at St Aubyns,
London Road, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk. In the 1911 census he was
aged 27, born Egglescliffe, Co. Durham, an Electrical manufacturer,
boarding at 64, Wilbraham Road, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, South Manchester,
Lancashire. In the 1918 Electoral Register for Salford West Division,
Hope Ward, he was listed at the works in Bazaar Street, abode 62,
Platt Lane, Rusholme, occupation Lieutenant, Signalling Service,
Royal Engineers. No known grave. Commemorated on HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL,
SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire. Also commemorated on the Egglescliffe, St
John the Baptist, Durham Memorial and also on Egglescliffe Memorial,
Cleveland.
From
the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1898:
Wilson,
Geoffrey Hutton. b. 28 May, 1884. (Girdlestoneites); Left L.Q.,
1900.- Student of Electrical Engineering.
G. H. Wilson, Esq., Egglescliffe, co. Durham
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1919:
WILSON
Geoffrey Hutton of Ford-lane Pendleton Lancashire
lieutenant R.E. died 23 December 1918 at sea Probate London
20 August to Cecil Hutton Wilson and Aleck Bevan Hutton Wilson
chemical manufacturers and Alfred Rowley Webb chartered accountant.
Effects £29034 1s. 8d.
Extract
from The Roll of Honour of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
1914-1919:
LIEUTENANT
G H WILSON, ROYAL ENGINEERS
GEOFFREY
HUTTON WILSON was the fourth son of Robert Hutton and Adeline
Cecilia Wilson, of Egglescliffe, Yarm-on-Tees, Co. Durham (b.
at Egglescliffe, May 28, 1884).
He was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey (1898-1900).
He was apprenticed in January, 1901, as a Pupil with Messrs. Worth,
Mackenzie & Co., Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees, Yorks., and served
for two years in that capacity; during this period, he passed
through the several departments of the firm's Works.
In April, 1903, on the completion of his apprenticeship, he entered
Armstrong College (University of Durham), Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
took a special two years' course in elec¬trical and mechanical
engineering under Pro¬fessor W. M. Thornton, O.B.E.
He was engaged, in May, 1905, by The British Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Com¬pany, Ltd. (now The Metropolitan-Vickers
Electric Company, Ltd.), of Trafford Park, Manchester, as an Improver
and was employed principally in the Winding Department of the
Company's Works. He resigned his posi¬tion with The Westinghouse
Company at the end of 1906, and started in business on his own
account at Manchester under the firm name of The Manchester Armature
Repair Company. He specialized in the manufacture of armature
and field coils, and, at the same time, undertook general repair
work in connection with electrical machinery of all kinds.
He did not enjoy robust health; however, he was desirous of bearing
his share of the burden in the Great War. In consequence, he decided
in June, 1915, to work for the French Red Cross Society. Thereupon,
he placed his business in Manchester in the hands of a Chartered
Accountant with powers to act as his Attorney, and, crossing to
France, was employed at Rouen tending to sick and wounded soldiers.
After spending three months in France, he returned to England
and on October 30, 1915, was given a Commission in the Royal Engineers.
He was sent to the Rest Camp at Bletchley, Bucks„ in the
first instance, and a few days later proceeded to the Signal Service
Training Centre at Dunstable, Beds., where he was put through
a course of military training.
In the spring of 1916, he was placed under orders for duty in
British East Africa (now Kenya Colony) with the African Volunteer
Section, G.H.O., Signal Company, and sailed from Devonport in
H.M.T. inkosi on May 21; about a month later, he disembarked at
Kilindini (Mombasa). He joined the East African Expedi¬tionary
Force whilst the operations for the Seizure of the Railway from
Kilimatinde to Kilosa (June 24—Aug. 22, 1916) were in progress
and arrived in time to enter Morogoro with General Headquarters
on August 22, the enemy having retired from that place in order
to avoid being enveloped by the British Forces. He proceeded,
in the middle of October, to Dar es Salaam, which had been surrendered
on September 4, 1916, by the Germans to a British Force operating
from Bagayomo, and, after a short spell of duty there, returned
to Morogoro. He unfortunately met with an accident involving an
injury to his ankle which necessitated his admission into hospital
on Christmas Day, 1916, where he remained under treatment until
January 20, 1917.
On discharge from hospital, he rejoined his unit, which at the
time was in the neighbourhood of Dar es Salaam. The climate and
hardships of campaigning began to tell on his health, and, at
the end of February, he was invalided to South Africa and sent
down to Cape Town. On arrival in Cape Colony, he was admitted
into No. 2 Hospital, Simon's Town, where he remained under treatment
until March 26. On leaving, this Hospital, he was attached to
the Officer Commanding the Details at Simon's Town, and was employed
there until May 4, when he embarked for Dar es Salaam. He reached
Morogoro on May 31, and resumed duty with his old unit. He was
promoted Lieutenant on July 1.
Later, he was ordered south to take part in the final phase of
the Operations in the Kilwa and Lindi Areas in connection with
the advance to the Portuguese frontier. He embarked at Dar es
Salaam in H.M.T. Tuna on October 13, and was conveyed to Kilwa,
where he did duty with the Kilwa Signal Company for a couple of
months; he was then transferred to the Lindi Signal Company. On
arrival at Lindi on December 10, he became ill and was admitted
into the 1st African Stationary Hos¬pital, and subsequently
sent to Morogoro, where he was under treatment in the 13th Stationary
Hospital until December 29. On recovering from his illness, he
returned to Lindi and rejoined the Lindi Signal Company, with
which he did duty until October 21, 1918, when he was once more
sent to Dar es Salaam. His health had been completely shattered
by field service under extremely trying climatic and other conditions,
and therefore, at the end of 1918, he was ordered Home. He embarked
on board H.M.T. Ingoma on December 21, 1918, and sailed for England:
two days later, whilst at sea, he died, of cerebral malaria.
Age: 34 years 7 months.
The Inspector General, Lines of Communi¬cation, East African
Expeditionary Force, wrote:—
“Your husband had done splendid service, and was loved and
respected by all with whom he came into contact. To me personally
his loss was a great one, since he had served me loyally and well
for a long period, when he never failed to display the highest
qualities of a soldier and a God-fearing Britisher. He was a great
favourite throughout the Command and his loss is a deep one to
his many comrades and wide circle of friends."
A Brother Officer wrote:—
“I never met such a hard conscientious worker as dear old
Wilson. I always wondered how he ever managed to get through,
but he always did. . . His men were absolutely cut up about his
death: they were very fond of him, for he never told them to do
anything which he didn't do himself."
A Corporal wrote:—
"I feel it my duty to him and to yourself to try to tell
you something of the high esteem in which he was held by all with
whom he came in contact. I know myself that the native carriers
would go to any amount of trouble to do him a small service, and
his private ‘boy' just worshipped him. It is saying a great
deal of a man's sense of fairness and firm constant kindness when
the natives are pleased to work for him and are not domi¬nated
by the fear of the ‘kiboko.' I can't speak too highly of
Lt. Wilson's thought for the white men he was in charge of; he
would always make sure that they had just the same ‘comfort,'
poor though it often was, that he had himself. . . I am quite
sure that his cheery unflagging energy kept us going when under
adverse conditions, and so secured successful results that otherwise
would not have been obtained. His memory and example will live
forever in the hearts of those who knew him in one of the most
desolate parts of Africa."
He married, at the Parish Church, Hitchin, Herts., on April 4,
1916, Barbara Raine, the only daughter of the Rev. Canon Dorrity,
B.D., of St. Ann's Rectory, Manchester; he is survived by his
widow.
Institution record: Student, 1905; Associate Member, 1911.
Extract
from Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser
- Wednesday 24 March 1915, page 8:
FIVE
GERMAN PATENTS.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION BY
MANCHESTER ENGINEER.
In
the Patents Courts yesterday, before Mr. Temple Franks, an application
was made by Mr. Geoffrey Hutton Wilson, electrical engineer, of
Manchester, for five patents held by German firm (the Spezial
Fabric fur Alluminium Spulen, Leitungen, of Berlin), for the manufacture
of electrical field coils, used chiefly on tramways and industrial
motors, to be made of aluminium instead of copper wire.
The
advantages gained by this substitution, it was pointed out, were
its greater lightness, durability, cheapness, and the fact that
in ordinary temperatures it provided film oxide, which formed
natural insulation.
Mr.
Wilson said that a saving of from £500 to £700 a year
could be effected on the Manchester tramways alone by the use
the aluminium coil. The coils had been manufactured by witness's
firm by arrangement with the German patentees, but since the war
they had been continuing the work, and were prepared to pay royalty
to the Board of Trade for the patents. He thought five per cent
of its selling price was not unreasonable.
It
was agreed that five per cent on the selling price, to date from
the beginning of the war, was a fair sum until some arrangement
might come to the end of the war between the manufacturer and
the German patentee.
Extract
from Manchester Evening News - Saturday 23 August 1919,
page 3:
Lieutenant
Geoffrey Hutton Wilson, R.E., of Ford Lane. Pendleton, and of
the Egglescliffe Chemical Co., Ltd, Durham, who died at sea, left
£29,034 GROSS and £13,909 net.
|
| WILSON |
Laurence
Trench |
 Second
Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery attached to 171st Tunnelling
Company, Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 9 August 1915. Aged 30.
Son of Fanny Wilson, of 4, Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, London,
and the late Rev. Alfred Wilson (Vicar of St. Michael's, Bedford
Park, London); brother of Charles Edgar Andrew
Wilson (above). In the 1901 census he was aged 16, born London,
Middlesex, a school boarder, resident Hindhead Road, Godalming,
Guildford, Surrey. In the 1911 census he was aged 26, born Chiswick,
Middlesex, a Civil Engineer, son of Fanny Wilson (a widow), resident
4, Sheffield Terrace, Kensington W., Kensington, London & Middlesex.
Buried in CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES, Nord, France.
Plot IX. Row B. Grave 5. Also commemorated on Chiswick War memorial,
Middlesex.
From
the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1899:
Wilson,
Laurence Trench. b. 5 Jan., 1885. (Daviesites); Left C.Q., 1902.-Engineering
Student, University College, London.
L. T. Wilson, Esq., The Vicarage, Bedford Park, Chiswick, S.W.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1915:
WILSON
Laurence Trench of 4 Sheffield-terrace Campden Hill Kensington
Middlesex lieutenant R.E died 9 August 1915 in
France or Belgium Administration (with Will limited) London
13 November to Spencer Bernard Kendall solicitor attorney of Alan
Campbell Wilson.
Effects £8509 2s. 6d.
Extract
from West London Observer - Friday 20 August 1915, page
3:
LIEUT.
WILSON KILLED.—Second Lieut. Laurence Trench Wilson,
R.G.A., died in France on August 9th of wounds received the same
day, was 30 years of age, and the fourth son of the late Rev.
Alfred Wilson, Vicar of St. Michael's, Bedford Park, Chiswick,
and grandson of the late Major C. H. Cobbe, B.N.I. He was educated
at Charterhouse. and studied civil engineering at University College,
London, where he obtained the Chadwick Exhibition.
Extract
from Middlesex Chronicle - Saturday 21 August 1915, page
6:
Second-Lieut.
Laurence Trench Wilson, of the R.G.A., attached to the Royal Engineers,
fourth son of the late Rev. Alfred Wilson, Vicar of St. Michael
and All Angels, Bedford Park, Chiswick, was killed in action in
France the 9th inst.
|
| WILSON |
Robert
Meredith |
 Lieutenant,
6th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action
10 August 1915. Aged 23. Son of Edward Thomas and Mary Margaret
Wilson, of Wookey House, Wells, Somerset. Spent only three terms
at Charterhouse, then moved to Radley College. In 1911 he went up
to Exeter College, Oxford. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES
MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 152 to 154. Also listed
on St Michael & All Angels, Chiswick, Middlesex.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 2, page
318:
WILSON,
ROBERT MEREDITH, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. The Loyal
North Lancashire Regt., only surv. s. of Edward Thomas
Wilson, of 38, West Cliff, Preston, Acting Under Sheriff for Lancashire,
and a member of the firm of Wilson. Wright & Davies, of Preston,
by his wife, Mary Margaret, only child of the late Rev. John Warburton
Wharton; b. St. Anne's-on-Sea, co. Lancaster, 23 Feb. 1892;
educ. Radley College, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a
member of the O.T.C.; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak
of war, and obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. Loyal North Lancashire
Regt. 26 Aug. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 12 Dec. following; served
with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli from June,
1915; was reported missing after the fighting at Chunuk Bair 10
Aug. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that
date. Sir Ian Hamilton, in his Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London
Gazette, 6 Jan. 1916], referring to this attack, states: "The
two battalions of the New Army chosen to hold Chunuk Bair were the
6th Loyal North Lancs. Regt. and 5th Wiltshire Regt., on the night
of 9 Aug. At daybreak, on Tuesday, 10 Aug., the Turks delivered
a grand attack against these two battalions. First the men were
shelled by enemy guns. and then at 5.30 a.m. were assaulted by a
huge column consisting of no less than a full division, plus a regiment
of three battalions. The North Lancashire men were simply overwhelmed
in their shallow trenches by sheer weight of numbers. whilst the
Wilts, who were caught out in the open. were literally annihilated."
Unm.
Extract
from Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 18 August 1915,
page 3:
LIEUT.
R. M. WILSON.
PRESTON OFFICER REPORTED MISSING.
Lieut.
Robert Meredith Wilson, son of Mr. E. T. Wilson, West Cliff, Preston,
of the firm of Wilson, Wright. and Davies, solicitors, has been
reported missing at the Dardanelles from the 10th inst. Lieut. Wilson,
who is 23 years of age, was educated at Radley, near Oxford, and
three years ago passed on to Exeter College, Oxford. He was prominent
in athletics, playing in the college cricket and football teams,
both codes. He enlisted in the 6th Battalion L.N.L. Regiment, from
the University O.T.C. in August last year and obtained his commission
in January. He had been at the front about a month.
Extract
from Manchester Evening News - Thursday 19 August 1915,
page 4:
MISSING
Another Old Mancunian's Fate in Doubt
Another
officer whose fate is in doubt is Lieutenant Robert Meredith Wilson,
son of Mr. E. T. Wilson, West Cliff, Preston, of the firm Messrs.
Wilson, Wright, and Davies, the acting Under-Sheriff for Lancashire.
He has been reported missing the Dardanelles since the 10th inst.
Born twenty-three years ago, he was educated at Radley and Exeter
College, Oxford. He enlisted in the 6th Battalion Loyal Lancashire
Regiment from the University O.T.C. in August last, obtained his
commission in December, and went to the front a month ago.
Extract
from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 20
August 1915, page 4:
LIEUTENANT
ROBERT MEREDITH WILSON, son Mr. E. T. Wilson, acting Under
Sheriff for Lancashire, a member of the firm of Wilson, Wright,
and Davies, Preston, has been reported missing at the Dardanelles
since the 10th inst. He was 23 years of age, and was educated at
Radley and Exeter College, Oxford. He enlisted in the 6th Loyal
North Lancashire Regiment from the University O.T.C. in August last
year, and obtained his commission in December.
|
| WINCH,
DSO |
Gordon
Bluett |
 Major,
Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds 10 April 1918. Aged 42. Born
26 December 1876 at Chatham. Son of George Winch and Mary Bluett
Winch; husband of Gertrude Dale (nee Uzielli) Winch, of "Ridgecote",
Sevenoaks, married January to March Quarter 1904 in Marylebone Registration
District, London, Kent. In the 1881 census he was aged 4, born Chatham,
Kent, son of George Winch, resident 2, New Road, Chatham, Medway,
Kent. In the 1891 census he was aged 14, born Chatham, Kent, a scholar,
son of George and Mary Winch, resident The Terrace, Sea View, St
Helens, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight & Hampshire. In the 1901
censu he was aged 24, born Chatham, Kent, an underwriter for Lloyds,
resident, with his brother Arthur, at 26, The Avenue, Beckenham,
Bromley, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 34, born Chatham Kent,
an Insurance broker at lloyds, married to Gertrude Dale Winch weith
two sons, resident Ridgecote, Vine Court Road, Sevenoaks, Kent.
Awarded the Distinguished Service order (D.S.O.). Buried in HAVERSKERQUE
BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord, France. Row E. Grave 16. See also Trinity
College, Cambridge
From
the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1891:
Winch,
Gordon Bluett. b. 26 Dec., 1876. (Hodgsonites); Left L.Q., 1894.
Trin. Coll., Camb.; B.A.-Promoter & First Secretary of Cambridge
Football League.-Stock Exchange, 1901; in firm of Messrs. Levien
& Winch.-Barrister, 1902.
G. B. Winch, Esq., New Oxford & Cambridge Club, S.W.
Extract
from the Distinguished Service Order 1916-1923, page
369:
WINCH,
G. B. (D.S.O. L.G. 1.1.18); s. of late G. Winch; m.
Gertrude Dale, d. of the late T. Uzielli; educ. Charterhouse;
Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the H.A.C. in 1905; in
1013 he was commissioned in the 5th London Brigade; in March,
1915, he went to France and fought at Givenchy, Festubert, La
Bassee and Loos, at which latter place he commanded his battery;
in 1916-17 he was home for seven months' training a battery,
and during this period he obtained his majority; in Feb. 1917,
he went to the front again; was mentioned in Despatches, and
was awarded the D.S.O. for gallantry in the field at Langemarck,
in Dec. of that year. He died on 9 April, 1918, of wounds.
Extract
from Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 27 April 1918, page
3:
Major
Gordon Bluett Winch died on April 10th from wounds received
the day before. Forty-one years of age, he was the youngest
son of the late Mr. George Winch, of Chatham. He was an old
Territorial officer, and had his major's commission in the Yeomanry
ten years ago. He will be remembered as one of the officers
who attended the Yeomanry camps at Ramsgate and Margate.
Extract
from Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday
26 October 1918, page 1:
Major
Gordon Bluett Winch. D.S.O.. of Ridge Cote. Vine Court Road,
Sevenoaks, of the R.F.A., whose death occurred on active
service in France or Belgium on the 10th April last, left
estate valued at £24,569. Mr. George Bluett Winch,
of Chatham, his brother, is the surviving executor.
Extract
from Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser
- Friday 11 October 1918, page 5, and Kent & Sussex
Courier - Friday 11 October 1918, page 5:
LOCAL
WlLL.—Major Gordon Bluett Winch, D.S.O., of Ridge
Cote, Vine Court-road. Sevenoaks, of the R.F.A., whose death
occurred on active service in France or Belgium, on the
10th April last, has left estate valued at £24,569
14s. 8d., with net personalty £17,521 1s. 8d. Mr.
George Bluett Winch, of Chatham, Kent, his brother, is the
surviving Executor.
Extract
from Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 11 October
1918, page 2:
WILLS
AND BEQUESTS
Amongst
the latest wills proved are the following:
| Gross |
Major Gordon Bluett Winch, D.S.O., of Sevenoaks, of
the R.F.A., whose death occurred on active service (net
personalty £17,521) . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . .
|
£24,569 |
Extract
from South Eastern Gazette - Tuesday 30 April 1918,
page 8:
THE
LATE MAJOR G. B. WINCH.
Major
Gordon Bluett Winch, D.S.O., R.F.A., of Ridgecote, Sevenoaks,
youngest son of the late Mr. George Winch, of Chatham, whose
death from wounds we reported last week, was educated at Charterhouse
and Trinity College, Cambridge, and whilst at the latter, was
one of the originators of the present League Field Club. In
1905 he joined a field battery of the H.A.C., and eventually
obtained the rank of Sergeant, but, having regard to the rules
as to age in that corps, was unable to obtain a commission.
In 1913 he was offered and accepted a commission in the —London
Brigade, and In 1915 he went to France and fought at Givenchy,
Festubert, La Bassee, and Loos, at which latter place he commanded
his battery. In 1916-17 he was home for seven months training
a battery for foreign service, and during this period he obtained
his majority. In February, 1917, he went to France again, was
mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the D.S.O. for gallantry
in the field at Langemarck in December of that year. His Colonel
writes: — "Needless to say, he is a tremendous loss
to me, and was a tower of strength in every way. On the day
of the big attack he worked simply wonderfully, and solely by
his gallantry and example kept his battery in action under severe
conditions. It is so difficult to write and say how much I miss
him, as he has served with me practically throughout the war,
and I know I shall never meet a braver or better soldier."
Extract
from Faversham News - Saturday 27 April 1918, page
3:
DEATH
OF MAJOR G. B.
WINCH, D.S.O., R.F.A.
We
regret to state that an official intimation has reached Mrs.
Winch, of Ridgecote, Sevenoaks, that her husband, Major Gordon
Bluett Winch, succumbed on April 10th to wounds received the
day before. Forty-one years of age, Major Winch was the youngest
son of the late Mr. George Winch, of Chatham. He was an old
Territorial officer, and had his major's commission in the Yeomanry
ten years ago. He was a brother of Colonel G. B. Winch, who
for a short time was joint Master of the Tickham Foxhounds and
resided at Norton Court.
|
| WISE |
Lancelot
Charles |
 Lieutenant,
North Irish Horse attached 3rd Lancers (Skinner's Horse). Died on
service 2 May 1917. Aged 23. Son of Charles Dacres Wise and Madeline
Stella Wise, of Alleron, Loddiswell, Devon. In the 1901 census he
was aged 7, born Toddington, Gloucestershire, son of Charles D and
Madeline T Wise, resident The Lydes, Stow Road, Toddington, Winchcomb,
Gloucestershire. Educated Charterhouse and University of Edinburgh,
Student of Science, 1913-14. Admitted from No. 9 Staionary Hospital
hospital to 2nd General Hospital 5 March 1916 with diptheria, in
officer isolation, transferred to England 5 March 1916. Buried 2
May 1917 in RAWALPINDI WAR CEMETERY, Pakistan. Plot 4. Row A. Grave
6.
Extract
from Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) - Sunday 6 May
1917, page 12, and Wednesday 9 May 1917, page 11:
ESTATE
of the late Lieut. LANCELOT CHARLES WISE, Indian Cavalry.
Any one having claims against the estate of the above-mentioned
officer should forward the same supported by vouchers to the
undersigned before 3rd June, 1917, after which date no claims
will be considered. |
| (1847-3)
|
PRESIDENT,
Committee of Adjustment,
late Lieut. L. C. WISE,
Rawalpindi. |
Extract
from Englishman's Overland Mail - Friday 18 May 1917, page
1:
WISE.—At
Rawal Pindi, on the 2nd May 1917, after a short illness, Lieutenant
Lancelot Charles Wise, 3rd Skinner's Horse. Deeply regretted by
all officers, British and Indian, and all ranks of the Regiment.
(English, Irish and African Please copy).
Extract
from Northern Whig - Friday 11 May 1917, page 6:
Lieutenant
L. C. Wise
Lieutenant
Lancelot Charles Wise, North Irish Horse, attached Indian Army,
whose death has taken place at Rawal Pindi, was the second son of
Mr. D. Wise, Salisbury, Rhodesia. He received his commission in
the North Irish Horse in December 1914, being promoted in the following
July. He served for some time at Antrim, and was subsequently attached
to the Indian Army.
|
| WOOD |
Henry
George |
 Captain,
"D" Company, 3rd Battalion attached 1st Battalion, The
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed in action 25 September 1915.
Aged 38. Born 16 October 1876. Baptised 28 November 1876 in Birkenhead,
St John, Cheshire. Son of George William and Claudine Elizabeth
Wood, of Birkenhead. An Insurance Clerk in Liverpool; London Rubber
Broker. Joined Public Schools Battalion on outbreak of war. Gazetted
to 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in December, 1914.
Went to France 24 August, 1915. Buried in ST. MARY'S A.D.S. CEMETERY,
HAISNES, Pas de Calais, France. Grave lost. Special memorial Row
A. Grave 8.
From
the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1890:
Wood,
Henry George. b. 16 Oct., 1876. (Bodeites); Left C.Q., 1892. - Clerk
in Sea Insurance Company, Exchange, Liverpool.
H. G. Wood, Esq., 57, Devonshire Road, Claughton, Birkenhead.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1915:
WOOD
Henry George of 16 Marloes-road Kensington Middlesex
captain 3rd battalion. Loyal North Lancashire regiment
died 25 September 1915 in France Administration London
25 November to Mary Ellen Wood spinster.
Effects £1633 6s. 9d.
Extract
from Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 6 October 1915, page
8:
KILLED
IN ACTION
WOOD-September
26-27, killed in action in France, aged 38, Captain Henry Goerge
Wood, 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, beloved
son of the late GF. W. Wood, of Birkenhead, and of Mrs. Wood,
16 Marloes-road, Kensington, London W.
Extract
from Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 7 October 1915,
page 4:
L.N.L.
OFFICER KILLED.
Captain
Henry George Wood, 3rd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was killed
in France on September 26th or 27th. He was 38 years of age, and
was the son of the late George W. Wood, of Birkenhead and of Mrs.
Wood, of 16, Marloes-road, Kensington. He was educated at Yarlett
Hall and at Charterhouse. He was in business as a rubber broker
in London, but he joined the Public Schools Battalion of the Middlesex
Regiment on the outbreak of war and received his commission on
December 6th, 1914.
Extract
from Birkenhead News - Saturday 9 October 1915, page
3:
Former
Birkenhead Family Bereaved.
Another
brave soldier has given his life for his country is Captain Henry
George Wood, 3rd Batt. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was
killed in action in France on September the 26th or 27th. Cappin
Wood, who was 38 years of age, was the son of the late Mr. G.
W. Wood, formerly of Birkenhead, and of Mrs. Wood, of 16, Marloes-road,
Kensington, London, W.
|
| WOODBRIDGE |
Stephen
Anthony Ruston |
Second
Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died of
wounds received in France 15 September 1916. Aged 26. Born 22 July
1889. Buried in SOUTH EALING CEMETERY, Middlesex. Grave reference
G. A. 16. Also commemorated on the Solicitors and Articled Clerks
War Memorial, Holborn, Greater London and also Ealing War memorial,
Middlesex.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1917:
WOODBRIDGE
Stephen Anthony Ruston of 9 Webster-gardens Ealing Middlesex
captain 10th Royal Warwickshire regiment died 15 September 1916
at the London Hospital Whitechapel Middlesex Administration London
10 February to Stephen Woodbridge architect and surveyor Effects
£284 11s. 1d.
Further granty 11 October 1935
Extract
from Kensington News and West London Times - Friday 29
September 1916, page 6:
Captain
Stephen Anthony Ruston Woodbridge, Warwickshire Regiment who died
of wounds on September 15th, aged 26, was the elder son of Mr and
Mrs Stephen Woodbridge, jun., of Brentford and Ealing, and the grandson
of Mr Stephen Woodbridge and the late William Rushton both of Brentford,
solicitors. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and admitted
a solicitor in 1913 having served his articles with Mr. E. E. Wigan,
of the firm of Mr. John Holmes, Son and Wigan, of London. He joined
the Inns of Court O.T.C. in September 1914, and obtained his commission
in the following November, passing examinations of the Staff College,
Camberley, and obtaining first-class certificates at Hayling Island
and Birmingham in machine-gunnery. He had been on active service
at the Front for 13 months as machine-gun officer for the battalion,
going through the battle of Loos. Later, he was wounded slightly
in the foot. He received his captaincy in July last, and subsequently
was severely wounded in the hand by shrapnel. He died at the London
Hospital. He was described by his Colonel as a most efficient officer,
and very popular with the men.
Extract
from Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer - Saturday
23 September 1916, page 3:
CAPTAIN
S. A. R. WOODBRIDGE
DIES FROM WOUNDS IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL.
The Gazette regrets to state that Captain S. A. R. Woodbridge, Royal
Warwickshire Regiment, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Woodbridge,
of Brentford and Ealing, died on Friday in the London Hospital at
the age of twenty-five. In the great advance he led his men over
the parapet three times at La Boiselle, Bazentin-le-Petit, and Delville
Wood. He was slightly wounded in the foot at Bazentin-le-Petit,
but carried on until he was more seriously wounded at Delville Wood.
He lay for ten days unconscious in hospital at Boulogne, and was
then brought to England.
There was a regrettable incident in regard to the funeral at the
Ealing Cemetery on Tuesday. The War Office had promised a military
funeral, and an escort, consisting of firing party and buglers,
attended to take part, but the gun carriage promised failed to arrive.
A long delay was occasioned while the military authorities were
communicated with, but in the result the gun carriage did not arrive,
and an ordinary hearse had to be requisitioned at the last moment.
Consequently, the funeral was much after the announced time in reaching
the cemetery.
The
body was enclosed in an inner shell, with an outer case of unpolished
oak. The fittings were of bronzed steel, and the inscription was:
"Stephen Anthony Ruston Woodbridge. Captain. Royal Warwickshire
Regiment. Died of wounds, 15th September, 1916, aged 26 years."
During - the journey to the cemetery the remains were covered by
the flag for which the gallant officer had fought.
The
service was conducted by the Rev. F. A. Judd. of S. Saviour's, Ealing,
and the mourners present were: Mr. S. Woodbridge. jun. (father),
Mr. Claude Woodbridge. Mr. S. Woodbridge, Mr. A. S. Ruston, Mr.
Frank Woodbridge, Mr. T. Woodbridge, C.C., Mr. Robert Woodbridge,
and Private Jolley. Three volleys were fired at the close of the
service, and the buglers sounded the "Last Post."
So
many wreaths were sent that it was necessary to have a special carriage
to take them to the cemetery.
Extract
from Middlesex County Times - Saturday 23 September 1916,
page 6:
FUNERAL
OF CAPT. S. A. R. WOODBRIDGE
The
funeral of Capt. Stephen Anthony Ruston Woodbridge, Royal Warwickshire
Regiment, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Woodbridge, of Brentford,
and 9 Webster-gardens, Ealing, who died sounds in the London Hospital
last week took place with military honours at Ealing Cemetery on
Tuesday.
Owing
to the failure on the part of the military authouities to send a
gun carriage as arranged, the cortége was an hour and a half
late in starting from the house, a private hearse being procured
after a considerable time had been spent in waiting for the gun
carriage andcommunicating with the military as to its non-arrival.
A. number of people awaited the arrival of the procession at the
cemetery. The coffin, which consisted of an inner shell and an outer
cover of unpolished oak with bronzed mountings, was covered with
a Union Jack. The inscription on the plate was "Stephen Anthony
Ruston Woodbridge (Captain, Royal Warwickshire Regiment), died of
wounds 15th September, 1916, aged 26 years. An escort consisting
of firing party and bugler, was provided by the Royal Fusiliers
Depot at Hounslow, and was present under the command of a captain.
The
Rev F. A. Judd, of St. Saviour's, Ealing, officiated, and after
the committal three volleys were fired over the grave and the "Last
Post" sounded.
A large number of floral tributes were sent, a special carriage
being necessary for their conveyance.
The
mourners were Mr. S. Woodbridge, jun., Mr. Claude Woodbridge, Mr
S. Woodbridge, Mr. Stanley Ruston, Mr. Frank Woodbridge, Mr. Thomas
Woodbridge, Mr. Robert Woodbridge, and Pte. Jolley.
The
funeral arrangements were in the hands of Messrs. Myring and Son,
Ealing Broadway.
|
| WOODMASS |
Kenrick
Talbot |
 Captain.
Born 31 May 1877. Son of Montagu and Edith Alice Woodmass, of 7
Southwell Gardens, South Kensington, London. Native of Compstall,
Cheshire. In the 1881 census he was aged 3, born Compstall, Cheshire,
son of Edith A Woodmass, resident Green Hill, Romiley, Stockport,
Cheshire. He was at Charterhouse [g] 1891-1894. In the 1901 census
he was aged 23, born Marple, Cheshire, a Soldier in the Imperial
Yeomanry, visitor at Victoria Hotel, 97, Victoria Road, Aldershot,
Farnham, Hampshire. He was commissioned into the East Yorkshire
Regiment, and joined 2nd Bn. He served in the South African War
and in the Great War. He was killed in action near Ypres on 23 April
1915, aged 36. No known grave. He is commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN
GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 21 and 31.
From
the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1891:
Woodmass,
Kenrick Talbot. b. 31 May, 1877. (Girdlestoneites); Left C.Q.,
1894.-Served in S. African War with 24th Batt. I.Y.,* 1902; joined
East Yorkshire Regt., 1902.
K. T. Woodmass, Esq., Compstall, Marple Bridge, Yorkshire
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916,
volume 2, page 523:
CAPTAIN
KENRICK TALBOT WOODMASS, 2nd BATTN. EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT,
who was killed in action when leading his men near Ypres on
the 23rd April, 1915, was the son of Montagu Woodmass, Compstall,
Cheshire, and South-well Gardens, London, S.W.; he was related
to the Lord Erskine and General Inglefleld, C.B., D.S.O.
He was born on the 31st May, 1877, and was educated at J. C.
Pipon's School, Wales, and Charterhouse. He volunteered for
the South African War, serving in the ranks of the 1st York
Rough Riders, Imperial Yeomanry, for a year, and later for nearly
two years in the commissioned ranks, being present at operations
in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal from November,
1900, to May, 1902; he was mentioned in Despatches (Lond.
Gaz. of 29th July, 1902), and received the Queen's medal
with three clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. From
the Imperial Yeomanry he received his commission in September,
1902, and was promoted Lieutenant in August, 1904. From July,
1909, to July, 1912, he was Adjutant of his Battalion, and was
promoted Captain in December, 1912. When stationed at York he
won the Regimental Steeple Chase Cup, and he played polo for
his Regiment, being Captain of the polo club in Burma and India.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1915:
WOODMASS
Kenrick Talbot of 7 Southwell-gardens Middlesex captain
H.M. East Yorkshire regiment died 23 April 1915 in North West
Europe killed in action Administration London 20
September to Montagu Woodmass retired barrister.
Effects £795 10s. 1d.
Extract
from Globe - Friday 28 February 1913, page 3:
Capt.
K. T. Woodmass, 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, and Cipt.
F. Middleton, 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, will leave
Southampton on Wednesday in the Royal Indian Marine steamer
Dufferin for Karachi. The Dufferin will be the last transport
to leave for India this season.
Extract
from Broad Arrow - Friday 7 May 1915, page 28:
Capt.
Kenrick Talbot Woodmass, 2nd Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, who
was killed near Ypres on the 25th ult., was a son of Mr. M.
Woodmass, of Southwell Gardens, S.W., and formerly of Compstall.
Born in May 1877, he volunteered for the South African War -of
1899-1902, serving with the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders).
He was three times mentioned in despatches, and Gen. Kelly-Kenny
afterwards recommended him for a commission.
|
| WORKMAN,
MC, MiD |
Edward |
Lieutenant.
Born 4 December 1887, only son of Frank and Sara Workman, of “The
Moat,” Strandtown, Co. Down. Native of Belfast. He was at Charterhouse
[B] 1900 - 1905, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge then joined
his father’s shipbuilding company. In the 1901 census he was aged
14, born Ireland, a school boarder, resident Hindhead Road, Godalming,
Guildford, Surrey. In the Great War he was commissioned into Royal
Irish Rifles, he joined 5th Bn. and was later attached to 2nd Bn.
He was Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) and awarded the Military Cross
(M.C.). He died of wounds on 26 January 1916. His grave is at ETAPLES
MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row B. Grave 21.
See also Cambridge,
Trinty College
From
the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1891:
Workman,
Edward. b. 4 Dec., 1886. (Bodeites).
E.
Workman, Drummena, Bladon Park, Belfast
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume
3, page 292:
WORKMAN,
EDWARD, M.C., Lieut., 5th Battn. The Royal Irish Rifles
(Royal South Downs), only s. of Francis Workman, of
The Moat, Strandtown, co. Down, and of Sara, dau. of John M'Causland;
b. Belfast, co. Down, 4 Dec. 1886; educ. Charterhouse,
and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. degree
with Honours; became a Director in the Shipbuilding firm of
Workman, Clark a: Co., Ltd., Belfast, of which his father was
one of the founders; volunteered for Imperial Service on the
outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The
Royal Irish Rifles 14 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 22 May, 1915;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from
1 May. being attached for three months to the 1st Battn. The
York and Lancaster Regt.; was subsequently attached to the 2nd
Battn. The Royal Irish Rifles; took part in the fierce lighting
at Hooge 25 Sept. following, when lie was one of the three officers
of his regiment who came out scathless. After this attack the
2nd Battn. The Royal Irish Rifles was personally thanked by
the Commander of their Army Corps, who said "Your attack
was most brilliantly carried out.. . This attack against an
almost impregnable position will, when history comes to be written,
be looked on as one of the finest achievements of the whole
war. Your gallantry• has added to the already illustrious
name, not only of the 2nd Bat t n. The Royal Irish Rifles, hut
of the whole regiment of the Royal Irish Rifles." For his
own personal services and gallantry on this occasion, Lieut.
Workman was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord)
French [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 19161. On 19 Jan. 1916, in a
raid to gain information on the German trenches at Le Touquet,
River Lys, near Armentieres. he was mortally wounded, and died
at the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital, Le Touquet, 26 Jan.
1916. Buried in Camiers Road Cemetery, Etaples. His commanding
Officer, Lieut.-Col. Sprague, wrote: "The enterprise was
considered very successful, and the success was, to my mind,
mainly due to the exceptional coolness, good leading and pluck
of your poor son. I knew him well, and looked on hint as one
of my best officers, who served me in a most heroic and loyal
manner," and Capt. Norman, Adjutant: "He did magnificently,
and, as everyone says, the success of his party was entirely
due to him. . . . He has been given the Military Cross [London
Gazette, 19 Jan. 1916] for his splendid work." Sergt. Field
also wrote: "I have lost the finest company officer in
the Army, the best soldier I ever met." Lieut. Workman
was a member of the Ulster Club, and of the Royal Ulster and
the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Clubs, and steered his own
yacht successfully on many occasions. He was also a member of
the County Down Staghounds, and a keen motorist. Before the
war he had been an enthusiastic member of the Ulster Volunteer
Force, and during the grave political crisis of Easter, 1914,
he rendered most practical valuable service to the Unionist
cause; unm.
Extract
from Irish Officers Died In The Great War, 1914-1919:
Lieutenant
Edward Workman, 5th Royal Irish Rifles, died in hospital in France
on Jan. 26th, 1916, of wounds received in action on the 19th,
for his valuable services in which he was awarded the Military
Cross, having previously been mentioned in despatches for gallantry
at Hooge. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Workman, The
Moat, Strandtown, Co. Down, and had been a member of the firm
of Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., Belfast, but on the outbreak
of the war obtained a commission in the 5th R.I.R. He went to
the front on May 1st, 1915.
Extract
from Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 28 January 1916,
page 4:
Mr
E. Workman, Royal Irish Rifles.
Lieutenant
Edward Workman, 5th Royal Irish Rifles, attached 2d Battalion, has
died in hospital in France from wounds in the head. Mr Workman was
a director of Workman, Clark, & Co., Limited, of which his father,
Councillor Frank Workman, an ex- High Sheriff of Belfast, was one
of the founders. He was a member of the Royal Ulster and the Royal
North of Ireland Yacht Clubs, and was also connected with the County
Down Staghounds.
Extract
from Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 29 January 1916, page
5:
THE
CASUALTY LISTS.
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT E. WORKMAN
DIRECTOR OF SHIPBUILDING FIRM
A
telegram was received in Belfast on Thursday morning announcing
the death in an hospital in France of Lieutenant Edward Workman,
5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (Royal South Downs). The deceased
officer was attached to the 2nd Battalion of the Rifles, and was
wounded in the head while serving on the Western front. His condition
from the first was critical, and septic poisoning intervened.
The
late Lieutenant Workman was a director of the well-known shipbuilding
firm of Messrs. Workman, Clark, & Co., Ltd., of which his father,
Councillor Frank Workman, ex-High Sheriff of Belfast, was one of
the founders, and he resided with his parents at The Moat, Strandtown.
He dbtained his commission in the Royal South Downs on 15th August,
1914, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 22nd May last.
He had been serving at the front for a considerable period, and
in the last despatch received from Field-Marshal Viscount French
he was recommended for gallant and distinguished service in the
field.
Extract
from Irish Independent - Wednesday 2 February 1916, page
4:
Belfast
Corporation, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, Sir C. M'Cullagh,
seconded by Councillor Duff, and supported by Ald. Dr. King-Kerr,
passed a resolution of sympathy to Councillor Frank Workman on the
loss of his only son, Lieut. Edward Workman, who died in France
of wounds received in action, Councillor Duff said that the gallant
Lieut. won the respect of every employee in the firm of Workman,
Clark and Co., by reason of the fact that no duty was too irksome
for him.
Extract
from Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 29 January 1916, page
5:
OFFICERS
WOUNDED.
Lieutenant Edward Workman,
Official
intimation has been received in Belfast that Lieutenant Edward Workman,
5th Battalion. Royal Irish Rifles (Royal South Downs), attached
2nd Battalion, has been dangerously wounded in the head while serving
on the Western front. Lieutenant Workman is the only son of Mr.
Frank Workman, The Moat, Strandtown, and member of the firm of Workman,
Clark, & Co., Ltd. He obtained his commission in the Royal South
Downs on 15th August, 1914, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant
on 22nd May, 1915. In the last despatch received from Field-Marshal
Viscount French, Lieutenant Workman was recommended for gallant
and distinguished service in the field. Mr. and Mrs. Workman left
Belfast on Saturday night to visit their son. who is undergoing
treatment in a hospital in France.
Extract
from Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 29 January 1916,
page 5:
The
Military Cross has been conferred upon Lieutenant Edward Workman,
5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, for gallantry in Flanders. He
was a member of the Royal North Ireland Yacht Club and County
Stagbounds. He did not survive to receive the distinction.
|
| WORTHINGTON,
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. |
Reginald
George |
 Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, Oxfordfshire and Buckinghmashire Light Infantry.
Killed in action 16 September 1914. Aged 27. Son of George Montagu
Worthington and Eveline Fanny Worthington, of Dyson's Wood, Kidmore,
Oxon; brother of Walter Gustavus Worthington (below). In the 1891
census he was aged 4, born London, Middlesex, son of Eveline F Worthington,
resident Addison Gardens, Kensington, London & Middlesex. In
the 1901 census he was aged 14, born Kensington, Middlesex, son
of George M and Eveline F Worthington, resident Peperharow Road,
Godalming, Guildford, Surrey. In the 1911 census he was aged 25,
born London, Middlesex, a Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire
and Buckinghmahsire Light Infantry, billeted at Shorncliffe Camp,
Cheriton, Kent. Awarded Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Buried
in SOUPIR CHURCHYARD, Aisne, France. Row C. Grave 2. Also commemorated
on Godalming War Memorial.
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916,
volume 1, page 452-453:
LIEUTENANT
REGINALD GEORGE WORTHINGTON, 2nd BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT INFANTRY, who was killed in action on the 16th September,
1914, was the second son of the late George Montagu Worthington,
of Dyson's Wood, near Reading, and Mrs. Worthington, and was born
on the 4th December, 1880.
He was educated at Branksome, Godalming, and Charterhouse, and was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry in
February, 1904. From the Militia he was gazetted to the Oxfordshire
and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in May, 1908, and was posted
to the 2nd Battalion (old 52nd), he was Assistant Adjutant and Scout
Officer, and became Lieutenant in April, 1911.
Lieutenant Worthington was awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour. He was a member of the Junior Army and Navy and
the Junior United Service Clubs.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 4, page
244:
WORTHINGTON,
REGINALD GEORGE, Lieut., The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry, 2nd s. of George Montague Worthington,
of Dyson's Wood, near Reading, by his wife, Eveline Fanny (Lowood,
Godalming, co. Surrey), dau. of William H. Harrison; and brother
to Major W. G. Worthington, M.C. (q.v.); b. 4
Dec. 1886; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry,
from the Militia, 6 May, 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and
was killed in action 16 Sept. 1914.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1914:
WORTHINGTON
Reginald George of Lowood Peperharow-road Godalming Surrey died
17 September 1914 in France Administration London 19 November to
Eveline Fanny Worthington, widow. Effects £1963 14s. 11d.
Resworn £1975 2s. 5d.
Below
are a few of the newspaer articles mentioning this man, more can
be found:
Extract
from West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 26 November 1914, page
8, and Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser - Saturday 28
November 1914, page 4, and Surrey Advertiser - Saturday
28 November 1914, page 6:
Lieutenant
Reginald George Worthington (27), of Lowood, Peperharow-road, Godalming,
and of the Oxford and Bucks Light infantry, killed on September
17, left £1,963.
Extract
from Banbury Guardian - Thursday 1 October 1914, page 3:
Lieutenant Reginald George Worthington (killed in action), was bom
on December 4th, 1886, was transferred from the Militia to the Oxfordshire
and Rnckinahamshire Light Infantry May 6th, 1908, and gazetted lieutenant
on April 1st, 1911.
Extract
from Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette - Friday 25 September
1914, page 8:
Lieut.
Reginald George Worthington, who was killed on the 16th of September,
joined his regiment in 1906. He was the second son of the late Mr.
Worthington, of Dyson's Wood, near Reading, and was 27.
|
| WORTHINGTON,
MC |
Walter
Gustavus |
 Major,
12th (County of London) Battalion (The Rangers), London Regiment.
Died of wounds 27 April 1918. Aged 28. Son of George Montagu Worthington
and Eveline Fanny Worthington, of Dysons Wood, Reading; brother
of Reginald george Worthington (above). In the 1891 census he was
aged 1, born London, Middlesex, son of Eveline F Worthington, resident
Addison Gardens, Kensington, London & Middlesex. In the 1901
census he was aged 11, born Kensington, Middlesex, son of George
M and Eveline F Worthington, resident Peperharow Road, Godalming,
Guildford, Surrey. In the 1911 census he was aged 21, born Kensington,
an Articled Clerk with Solicitor, boarding at 11 Gordon Place Kensington
W, Kensington, London & Middlesex. Went to France Christmas
Day, 1914. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). Buried in ST. SEVER
CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France. Officers, Plot B. Row 3.
Grave 5.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 4, page
244:
WORTHINGTON,
WALTER GUSTAVUS, M.C., Major, 12th Battn. (The Rangers)
The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Montague Worthington,
of Dyson's Wood, near Reading, Barrister, by his wife, Eveline Fanny
(Lowood, Godalming, co. Surrey), dau. of William H. Harrison; and
brother to Lieut. R. G. Worthington (q.v.); b. Kensington,
London, W., 20 June, 1889; educ. Branksome, Godalming; Charterhouse,
where he was a member of the O.T.C., and Oriel College, Oxford,
where he rowed his 1st College Boat, and brought home his oar, 7
bumps; while at the University he joined the Oxford University O.T.C.;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Rangers (T.F.) 6 Feb. 1911; promoted Lieut.
5 Dec. 1912; Capt. 3 Sept_ 1914, and Major 1 July, 1916; was called
up on mobilization in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force
in France and Flanders from the following Dec.; was wounded at the
Second Battle of Ypres in May, 1915, and invalided home; returned
to France in Sept. of the same year, and died at No. 8 General Hospital,
Rouen, 27 April, 1918, from the effects of gas poisoning received
on the 21st. Buried there. He was awarded the M.C. [London Gazette,
1 Jan. 1917] for gallantry in the field; unm.Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1918:
WORTHINGTON
Walter Gustavus of Dysons Wood near Reading M.C.
major H.M. Army died 27 April 1918 in France Administration London
25 July to Eveline Fanny Worthington widow. Effects £2775
9s. 2d.
Extract
from Reading Mercury - Saturday 27 January 1917, page 2:
AWARDED
THE MILITARY CROSS
Captain
(temporary Major) W. G. Worthington. The Rangers, awarded the M.C..
1st January, is the youngest son of the late Mr. G. M. Worthington,
Dysons Wood.
|
| WREFORD
BROWN |
Claude
[Wreford] |
 Captain,
2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action 25 May
1915. Aged 29. Born 17 February 1876. Son of the late William
and Clara Jane Wreford-Brown, of 5, Litfield Place, Clifton, Bristol;
brother of Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown
(below). Served with the Nile Expedition 1898 (Battle of Khartoum);
occupation of Crete 1898; South Africa 1899-1902; North-West Frontier
of India 1906-1909. Instructor R.M. College, Sandhurst. Awarded
the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). No known grave. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
8 and 12.
Extract
from The V.C. and D.S.O.. Book Distinguished Service Order
1886-1915:
WREFORD-BROWN,
CLAUD WREFORD, Lieut., was born at Clifton, 17 Feb. 1876,
fifth son of the late William Wreford-Brown and Clara Jane, daughter
of Henry Clark, M.D. He was educated at Waynsflete, Durdham Down,
Clifton; Wells House, Malvern Wells, and Charterhouse. He was
commissioned from the Militia into the 1st Battn. 5th Northumberland
Fusiliers 15 May, 1697. In 1898 he served in the Sudan Campaign;
was present at the Battle of Omdurman and at the capture of Khartum
(Medal and Egyptian Medal with clasp). He was employed in the
Occupation of Crete in 1898; became Lieutenant 21 Nov. 1899, and
served throughout the South African War of 1899-1902, taking part
in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont,
Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; afterwards he took part
in the operations in the Orange Free State (March to May, 1900),
and in the Transvaal (July to Nov. 1900), including actions at
Venterskroom and Rhenoster River. He was twice mentioned in Despatches
[London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901]; received the Queen's
Medal with four clasps; the King's Medal with three clasps, and
was—for his services at Lichtenburg—created a Companion
of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 27 Sept. 1901]:
"Claud Wreford Wreford-Brown, Lieut., Northumberland Fusiliers.
In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa."
He was promoted to Captain 15 April, 1901. In 1908 he served on
the North-West Frontier of India, (luring the operations in the
Mohmand country, and was severely wounded, receiving the Medal
and one clasp. Capt. Wreford-Brown served in the Great War, and
was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 25 May, 1915.
From
the Charterhouse Register Vol 1, Charterhouse Register 1872-1900,
Oration Quarter 1890:
Wreford
Brown, Claude. b. 17 Feb., 1876: 5 s. of William Wreford Brown,
of Clifton; (Gownboys); Left O.Q. 1892.- Joined 4th Warwickshire
Militia & 5th (Northimberland) Fusiliers, 1897; served in
Soudan campaign, 1898; Occupation of Crete, 1898-'99; S. Adrican
War,** 1899-1902; D.S.O.; Capt., 1901; served in Mohmand Expedition,
severely wounded, 1908.
Capt.
C. Wreford Brown, Army & Navy Club, S.W.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume
1, page 57:
 WREFORD-BROWN,
CLAUDE, D.S.O., Capt., 2nd Battn. 5th Northumberland
Fusiliers (T.F.), 5th s. of the late William Wreford-Brown,
by his wife, Clara Jane (5, LitfieId Place, Clifton, Bristol),
dau. of Henry Clark, M.D.; b. Clifton, 17 Feb. 1876;
educ. Waynflete, Durdham Downs; Wells House, Malvern Wells;
and Charterhouse. After serving in the Royal Warwickshire Militia,
he obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. of
the "Fighting Fifth," 15 May, 1897, being promoted
Lieut. 24 Nov. 1899, and Capt. 15 April, 1901. In 1898 he took
part in the Soudan Campaign under Lord Kitchener, being present
at the Battle of Omdurman and the capture of Khartoum (Queen's
medal and Egyptian medal with clasp). He was employed in the
occupation of Crete in 1898, and then, under Lord Methuen, served
throughout the South African War, 1899-1902. He took part in
the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont,
Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. Afterwards he took part
in the operations in the Orange Free State (March-May, 1900)
and in the Transvaal (July-Nov. 1900), including actions at
Venterskroom and Rhenoster River. Twice mentioned in Despatches
[London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901], he received the
D.S.O. for his services at Lichtenburg and the Queen's medal
with four clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. He was
selected to represent his regt. at the Coronation of King Edward
VII. In April, 1908, he was on the North-West Frontier of India,
and while serving in the Mohmand Campaign was seriously wounded.
On 4 Sept. 1912, he was appointed an instructor at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst, which post he filled until 17 Feb.
1915, when he joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt., then in France.
Capt. Wreford-Brown was killed on the Menin Road, south of Ypres,
200 yards east of Wieltje Farm, north of Hooge, on Whit Monday,
24 May, 1915; unm. His regt. had been practically wiped
out on the 13th, and when he heard of this he insisted on leaving
Boulogne, where he was in hospital, and going back to reform
the regt. He arrived at headquarters west of Ypres, Friday,
21 May, and there found 85 worn-out men of his battn., and about
450 of the 5th Fusiliers and Durham L.I., and 15 officers, a
new draft which had just, arrived, all from the same depot.
These he formed into a battn., and on Sunday, 23 May, was ordered
to join the Brigade—only two clear days to form a new
regt. They marched between 15 and 29 miles on a sweltering hot
day, losing several men on the way under shell fire. They arrived
at Menin Road on Monday (Empire Day) the 24th; and were ordered
out into support at 6 a.m. Wreford-Brown was commanding. At
about 1 p.m. he received orders to advance to a certain point
and attack a position which was allotted to him. The battn.
shortly after leaving its support position came under heavy
fire, and for a distance of two and a-half miles across country
of open fields of buttercups, was continually under high explosive
fire and shrapnel, machine and rifle fire. The regt. was formed
up for the attack on the ridge which they took, but with very
heavy casualties. Ten of the officers were wounded in this,
leaving Wreford-Brown and two lieutenants. These and the remaining
men dug themselves in, and on getting to the ridge they found
the Germans very strong in a farm called Wieltje: it looked
as if the Germans were on three sides of them. The regt. on
the right could not be found, and two companies of the 5th were
taking on three miles of Germans. At 7 p.m he sent word as to
his position and the heavy casualties. The answer came back:
"You must try and take it and hold it at all costs."
One of the captains in the firing line who was wounded and lying
in a ditch reports that Wreford-Brown told him to go back to
hospital, and congratulated him on getting back to England wounded,
and said: "Good-bye, old fellow, I shall not see you again.
I am ordered to attack the place, it is hopeless, but I shall
lead my men to it"; and with that he turned to his men
and called for a rifle and bayonet and said: "Now we will
make the final charge of the Mohicans," which he did, leading
the men. The Germans had 20 to 25 machine guns concentrated
on them: Wreford-Brown fell 10 yards from the German trench
mortally wounded. The remaining Lieut. reformed for a second
attack and got wounded; the remaining few retired back to the
trench behind the hedge, which they had dug after gaining the
ridge. Only one officer got back safely, and he was with the
machine gun a long way behind, which did not come into action.
The regt. on the right had been delayed and came up afterwards.
In the opinion of all he was shot several times and was certainly
killed. Several attempts were made to recover his body, but
it lay between two trenches of the Germans, and it was impossible
owing to their withering fire. The Commander-in-Chief came round
himself and thanked the survivors for their bravery. His brother
officers bore general testimony to his capability and great
courage. His brother, Capt. O. E. Wreford-Brown, died 7 July,
1916, of wounds received in action on the Somme.
Extract
from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday
27 April 1908, page 7:
THE
WOUNDED OFFICERS.
Captain
Claude Wreford-Brown, wounded, had only recently rejoined the
Northumberland Fusiliers after going through a mounted infantry
course atSealkote owing to Mr. Haldane's scheme. He was selected
against his will for transfer to an outside regiment. He joined
the Warwickshire Militia in 1895, and passed two years later
into the "Fighting Fifth," and served in the Khartoum,
Cretan, and Transvaal operations. He was specially mentioned
for judgment and coolness in command of posts during the Boer
attack on Lichtenburg, and got the Distinguished Service Order.
Extract
from Clifton Society - Thursday 3 June 1915, page 12,
and Western Daily Press - Monday 31 May 1915, page
5:
CAPTAIN
WREFORD BROWN.
Captain
Claude Wreford-Brown, D.S.O., of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliera,
who was killed in action on May 25th, was the fifth son of the
late Mr. William Wreford- Brown and of Mrs W. Wreford-Brown,
of 6, Litfield-place, Clifton. He was educated at Waynfleet,
Clifton, Wells House, Great Malvern, and at Chartethouse.
He
served in the Royal Warwickshire Militia, obtaining his commission
in the "Fighting Fifth," 1st Northumberland Fusiliers
in 1897; his lieutenancy in 1899; and was promoted captain in
1901. He saw much active service. He took part in the campaign
in the Soudan under Lord Kitchener in 1898, and participated
in the battles of Omdurman and Khartoum for which he received
the British and Khedive medals with clasps.
Captain
Wreford-Brown served in the occupation of Crete in 1898 and
also under Lord Kitchener in the whole of the South African
War. His regiment, the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers,
was the first to arrive in South Africa. He was at the battles
of Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, and Lichtenhurg, and in recognition
of his distinguished services was awarded the Queen's and King's
medals with four clasps and was twice mentioned in despatches,
receiving his promotion and the D.S.O.
In
April, 1908, he was seriously wounded on the North-West Frontier
of India, in a battle against the Mohmaids. In 1912 he was appointed
an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, which
post he held until February 17 1915, when he joined the 2nd
Battalion of his regiment in Flanders. On May 4 he was invalided
to Boulogne Hospital, and returned to the trenches on the 21st,
and was killed in action on May 25.
Captain
Wreford-Brown's four brothers are serving— Major W. H.
Wreford-Brown, late Essex Regiment, now acting as a Censor;
the Rev. Gerald Wreford-Brown, an acting chaplain at the front;
Second Lieutenant O. E. Wreford-Brown,
in the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers; and Second Lieutenant
J. N. Wreford-Brown, in the 9th Essex.
A
striking tribute to the late Captain Wreford-Brown's heroism
is given in a letter which his relatives have received from
an officer at the front. The circumstances of his death are
given, showing he was last seen 10 yards ahead of his men, urging
them on, when he fell. The officer adds : "If he is not
a hero, then nobody is. I have just seen our Brigadier-General,
who tells me the same tale."
Extract
from Clifton Society - Thursday 2 September 1915, page
7:
WILLS
CAPTAIN C. W. WREFORD-BROWN, D.S.O.
Captain
Claude Wreford Wreford-Brown, D.S.O., 2nd Battalion Northumberland
Fusiliers, of 5, Litfield-place, Bristol, who saw service in
the Soudan and in the South African War, and who was killed
In action on the 24th May last, aged 30 years, left unsettled
property of the gross value of £7,810 10s. Probate of
his will, dated 27th January last, has been granted to his brother,
Lieutenant Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown, of 2, Threadneedle-street,
E.C. The testator left his medals and personal effects to his
brother Oswald, with the request, but creating no trust in the
matter, that he would distribute the same amongst his brothers
and sisters in accordance with any instructions he may have
left; and he left £400 to his brother Oswald, £50
each to his nephews and godsons, Claude William Holdsworth Hunt
and Tony Wreford-Brown; £25 to his nephews, Dick Wreford-Brown
and Evelyn Wreford-Brown, his niece, Daphne Holdsworth Hunt,
and his godchildren, Leopold Evans and Suzanne Le Callais. All
other his property he left equally between his nine brothers
and sisters, excluding his brother Louis, who is already provided
for.
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| WREFORD
BROWN |
Oswald
Eric |
Captain. Born 21 July 1877, 6th son of Son of the late William and
Clara Jane Wreford-Brown, of 5, Litfield Place, Clifton, Bristol;
brother of Claude Wreford-Brown
(above). He was at Charterhouse [G] 1891 - 1896. He became a stockbroker.
He was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers and joined
9th Bn. He was killed in action on 8 July 1916, aged 39. His grave
is at CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot 1.
Row B. Grave 48. See also Stock
Exchange War Memorial
From
the Charterhouse Register Vol 1, Charterhouse Register 1872-1900,
Oration Quarter 1891:
Wreford-Brown,
Oswald Eric. b. 21 July, 1877. (Gownboys); Cricket XI, 1894, '95,
'96; Capt., '96; Football XI, 1895-'96; Left C.Q., 1896. Played
Football for England v. Germany, 1899; for Old Carthusians (Winners
of the London Senior Cup, 1899; the Arthur Dunn Cup, with Old
Salopians, 1903).- Stock Exchange, 1902; Partner in firm of Messrs.
Kitcat, Mortimer, & Wreford-Brown.
O.
E. Wreford-Brown, Esq., South Sea House, Threadneedle St., E.C.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1,
page 39:
WREFORD-BROWN,
OSWALD ERIC, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. The Northumberland
Fusiliers, 6th s. of the late William Wreford-Brown, of 5, Litfield
Place, Clifton, by his wife, Clara Jane (5, Litfield Place, Clifton,
Bristol), dau. of Henry Clark, M.D.; and brother to Capt.
C. Wreford-Brown, D.S.O. [see Vol. I., page 57]; b.
Clifton, Bristol, 21 July, 1877; educ. Waynflete; Durdham Down,
and Charterhouse; was a member of the Stock Exchange, and a keen
sportsman; played for Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1900; he
had spent two years in Canada, and shortly after the outbreak
of war trained in the Inns of Court Corps, and was gazetted Temp.
Lieut. Northumberland Fusiliers 8 Nov. 1914; promoted Capt. 7
July, 1916; was for nine months in the Ypres salient, Flanders
wounded in action during the Battle of the Somme, by a shell in
the quadrangle trench, near Fricourt, 5 July, 1916, and died in
a casualty clearing station 7 July following. Buried in Corbie
Communal Cemetery, near Amiens, the following day. Though he had
no natural inclination for a military life, he gave himself up
wholly to it, and had become a capable officer; his one thought
was for his men, their comfort and welfare, and he had won their
respect and love; unm.
Extract
from the Stock Exchange Memorial Book:
CAPTAIN
OSWALD ERIC WREFORD BROWN,
Northumberland Fusiliers, was born in 1877 and educated at Charterhouse,
representing his school at both cricket and football. Before becoming
a member of the Stock Exchange in 1902 he had spent four years
in Canada.
Soon after the outbreak of war he joined an Officers Training
Corps and was given his commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers
in November 1914.
He went to France with his Regiment in the following July, and
soon after was promoted to Captain. He was mortally wounded at
Fricourt on 5 July 1916, and died three days later.
His Colonel wrote: "None gave his life with greater gallantry
or showed greater contempt for danger. No one was more solicitous
for the welfare of his men who loved him so well."
And another Colonel under whom he served: “Nobody could
possibly be more unselfish or so unsparing of himself. He treated
his company like his children. All our men, who spent two years
nearly with him, will be the better for it, for he gave them such
a splendid example of always playing the game."
One of his sergeants wrote: “A stouter heart I never knew.
He was a Britisher absolutely, and never flinched. He was everyone's
favourite."
One of his men wrote: "The captain had a heart like a lion."
And another: "He was always a soldier and a gentleman, and
the greatness of his loss to us all cannot be put into words."
A Charterhouse master: " To some of us older ones here .
. this is the worst knock we have had, and that 's saying a good
deal. We shall never forget the keenest and cheeriest of Carthusians."
Extract
from South Bristol Free Press and Bedminster, Knowle &
Brislington Record - Saturday 15 July 1916, page 2:
Capt.
Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown, Nothumberland Fusiliers, has died from
wounds received in action. He was the sixth son of Mrs. Wreford-Brown,
Clifton, and was 39 years of age. A brother, Capt. Claud
Wreford-Brown, was killed last year.
Extract
from The Sportsman - Thursday 13 July 1916, page 2:
We
regret to announce the death on July 7 from wounds received in
action of Capt Oswald Eric Brown, of the Northumberland Fusilier,
the sixth son of the late Mr W. and Mrs Wreford-Brown, of Litfield-place,
Clifton, Bristol. The popular Old Carthusian when at Godalming
figured in the cricket and football school elevens of his school
and was captain of the former in 1896. He figured in Gloucestershire
cricket and assisted the Old Carthusians, but was better known
at "Soccer" in connection with the Old Carthusians and
Corinthians. He was a member of the London Stork Exchange. Capt.
C. W. Wreford-Brown, D.S.O., of the Northumberland Fusiliers,
who was killed in June, 1915, was a brother.
Extract
from North Star (Darlington) - Thursday 13 July 1916,
page 6:
FOOTBALL
DEATH OF AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL
Captain
Oswald Eric Wreford-Brown, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, who
died of wounds on July 7th, was the sixth son of the late William
and Mrs Wreford-Brown, of Litfield Place, Clifton, Bristol. He
was educated at Waynflete and at Charterhouse, where he was a
member of both cricket and football elevens, and was captain of
the former in 1896.
He
afterwards played cricket for the Old Carthusians and Free Foresters,
and occasionally for Gloucestershire. He played football for the
Old Carthusians the Corinthians, and played for England against
Germany1899.
He
became a member of the London Stock Exchange after leaving Charterhouse.
He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as a lieutenant in November
1914 and was promoted captain 1915. His brother, Captain
C. W. Wreford-Brown, D.S.O., of the Northumberland Fusiliers,
was killed in June last year.
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| WRIGHT |
Charles |
 Lieutenant,
1st/1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Yeomanry. Killed in action 29 November
1917. Aged 28. Born 1 July 1889. Son of Charles and Isabel Marguerite
Wright, of Willingham House, Market Rasen, Lincs. Buried in RAMLEH
WAR CEMETERY, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza). Section F.
Grave 18.
Extract
from Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser
- Tuesday 11 December 1917, page 8:
KILLED
IN ACTION.
TWO OFFICERS KILLED.
The
deaths (killed in action) are announced of Major Robert Wright and
Lieut. Charles Wright only sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wright,
of Willingham House, near Market Rasen, and formerly of Ansto, Worksop.
They both to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry. Major Wright was on the
s.s. Mercia when it was attacked, and he was then severely wounded
in the jaw. By profession he was a solicitor. Lieut. Charles Wright,
the younger son, who was a famer, first joined the Sherwood Rangers,
and later received a commission. Some years ago Mr. C. Wright was
Field Master of Viscount Galway's Hounds, and the deepest sympathy
will be felt for him and his wife by many friends in North Notts.
Extract
from Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 7 December 1917,
page 6:
Brothers
Killed.
Major
Robert Wright and Lieut. Charles Wright, the only sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Wright, of Willingham House, near Market Rasen, have
been killed in action. They both belonged to a Yeomanry regiment.
Major Robert Wright was on the s.s. Mercia when it was attacked,
and he was then severely wounded in the jaw. By profession he was
a solicitor. Lieut. Charles Wright, the younger son, who was a farmer,
first joined the Sherwood Rangers, and later received commission.
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| WYNNE-JONES |
Morys |
 Lieutenant,
36th Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 29 October 1914.
Aged 27. Son of the Rev. J. W. Wynne-Jones, of Tre Iorwerth, Valley,
Anglesey. In the 1891 census he was aged 3, son of John William
Wynee-Jones, resident The Vicarage, Constantine Road, Llanbeblig,
Carnarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales. In the 1901 census he was aged
13, born Caernarvonshire, Wales, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse
Block, Godalming Rural, Guildford, Surrey. No known grave. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
9. See also Trinity
College, Cambridge and Caernarfon
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916,
volume 1, page 207:
LIEUTENANT
MORYS WYNNE-JONES, ROYAL ENGINEERS, of Treiorwerth, Anglesey,
who was killed in action near Zandvoorde on the 29th October,
1914, was the son of the Rev. J. W. Wynne-Jones, Vicar of Carnarvon,
and the Hon. Jessie F. Wynne-Jones, daughter of the late Lord
Aberdare.
He was born at Carnarvon on the 13th May, 1887, and was educated
at Fonthill, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he took his degree of B.A., becoming later a member of the Institute
of Civil Engineers. He was subsequently on the staff of the Mexican
Eagle Oil Co., Tampico.
Originally in the Special Reserve, R.E. (Supplementary Officers),
which he joined in June, 1912, as 2nd Lieutenant, he returned
unsummoned from abroad on the declaration of war, and in September,
1914, was gazetted Lieutenant in his corps. ("London Gazette,"
20th May, 1915).
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1, page
210:
WYNNE-JONES,
MORYS, Lieut., 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, only s.
of the Rev. John William Wynne-Jones, of Trelorwerth, Anglesey,
Vicar of Carnarvon, by his wife, the Hon. Jessie Frances née
Bruce, dau. of Henry Austin, 1st Baron Aberdare; b. Carnarvon,
13 May, 1887; educ. Fonthill, Charterhouse, and Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he rowed in his college boat and won his oar. He
graduated B.A. 1909, and after passing his A.M. Inst. C.E. examination,
was for nearly two years an engineer on the Cardiff Railway, under
the late Lord Merthyr, being subsequently appointed one of the engineers
of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., at Tampico, Mexico. He had joined
the Special Reserve of Officers of the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut.
26 June, 1912, and on the outbreak of war, without waiting to be
summoned, he at once returned to England. He was promoted Lieut.
4 Oct. 1914 ; left for France 4 Oct. 1914, with the 7th Division,
and was killed in action at Zandevoorde, during the 1st Battle of
Ypres on the 29th of the same month ; unm. Capt. (now Major)
Guy Williams, commanding 54th Field Coy., wrote that they were called
upon to counter-attack with the Yorkshire Regt. at a point where
the Germans had broken through the British firing line.
Lieut. Wynne-Jones was leading his section when the enemy's shrapnel
found them, and he was killed instantaneously. The Coy. feel his
loss very much. He understood his men and his job. I miss him personally
as an excellent and most efficient subaltern and as a good friend."
Capt. R. M. Burgoyne, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, now a prisoner
in Germany, also wrote of two engineer officers, Lieut. Wynne-Jones
and Lieut. J. M. Smeathman, who, he said, "Did a lot of good
work for them. both as engineers and infantry, always being ready
to take a rifle and bear a hand. They were two very gallant fellows."
Extract
from London Evening Standard - Saturday 7 November 1914,
page 6:
Second
Lieut. Morys Wynne-Jones was killed in action on October 29. He
was the only son of the Rev. J. Wynne-Jones, vicar of Carnarvon,
and nephew of Lord Aberdare.
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