Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Charles Waller, of
121–123, Edgware Road, London, W., Master Tailor (died 2 Feb. 1916), by
his wife, Alice Easter (123, Edgware Road, London, W.), dau. of James
Waller, of Old Catton, Norwich; _b._ New Cross, London, 14 June,
1896; educ. Regent Street Polytechnic; was a student at Selfridges;
enlisted in Aug 1914 on the outbreak of war; left for France, 12
March, 1915, and was killed in action, 7 May, 1915; _unm._ Buried
in the Military Cemetery on the Rue Petillon, near Neuve Chapelle.
Lieut. A. G. Groser wrote: “He was a universal favourite among the
non-commissioned officers and men of No. 3 Platoon. ‘Best man in my
section,’ his sergeant used to say to me. Among the men all spoke well
of ‘Nobby,’ as they used to call him.... On the night of May 7, your
son was in the party of 19 under myself which was to occupy an advanced
trench 70 yards in front of the trenches, and within 70 yards of the
German lines. We occupied this advanced trench at 8.30 p.m., and barely
had the sentries been posted, when a party of over 24 Germans, bent
on slaughter, appeared on all sides and attempted to rush this trench.
They had crawled up under cover of darkness, then jumping up they fired
at us and then rushed into close quarters. After a hand-to-hand fight
lasting a few minutes, they were beaten off with the loss of seven
killed and several wounded. But four of the platoon lay on the ground
wounded, and three more had slight wounds. Your son with five others
under Sergt. Hocking (who has since died of wounds) stood up and fought
like the gentleman he was against fully 15 of the Germans. Facing the
enemy who appeared in front, he was shot in the back by one of those
who sprang up from the rear. Though four were badly wounded they went
on fighting till they drove the Germans off, which undoubtedly went
a long way to saving the position. He behaved like a gentleman and a
hero, as I ever thought he would should such circumstances arise. He
was conscious the whole time he was waiting for a stretcher, and I
could tell from his face that he was in great pain. I talked to him
and gave him water, and he answered back though very feebly. Then
the stretcher came and he was carried to the billets right behind
the trenches. Not a murmur or cry of pain came from him while lying
in the trench in awful agony, because he was not half a hero but one
throughout;” and Sergt. G. W. Scott, writing “at the unanimous request
of the N.C.Os. and men of the Platoon” to “record the great affection
which every man in this platoon had towards him, and the high esteem in
which he was held by all who knew him, officers and men alike,” added:
“About 9 o’clock p.m. on Friday, May 7, just as the day party was
being relieved, the Germans rushed the sap. Our boys were absolutely
taken by surprise, but rose to the occasion and succeeded in driving
the Germans off, but not before your son was shot through the back and
several others wounded. Poor ‘Nobby’ lived for a few hours and remained
cheerful and brave to the end. His death actually occurred about 1
o’clock a.m. whilst he was being conveyed to the dressing-station.”
[Illustration: =William James Waller.=]
=WALLIS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6251, 2nd Battn. Royal West
Surrey Regt., _s._ of Frederick Wallis, of 55, Morecambe Street,
Walworth; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in
action, 16 May, 1915.
=WALLIS, HERBERT FRANCIS=, No. G. 3330, 2nd Battn. East Surrey
Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action,
27 April, 1915.
=WALMESLEY, RICHARD=, Lieut., attd. 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess
of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only _s._ of John Walmesley, of
Lucknam, co. Wilts, and the Hall of Ince, co. Lancaster; _b._
London, W., 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd (Reserve Battn.) Yorkshire Regt. 13
Aug. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1912; was posted on the outbreak
of war to the 2nd Battn.; went to France early in Oct. 1914, and was
killed in action about the 21st of the same month, near Ypres. He was
shot through the head, death being instantaneous and was the first of
his regt. to fall. Lieut. Walmesley is described as a thorough soldier
whom his men would have followed anywhere. He was also a keen sportsman
and a well-known and fearless rider to hounds. He was Master of the
Cambridge Harriers, 1912–13, and hunted with the Quorn, the Belvoir,
and the Cottesmore, during the winter of 1913–14.
[Illustration: =Richard Walmesley.=]
=WALSH, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 3796, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards; enlisted 28 Feb. 1901; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901, to
4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); obtained his discharge,
14 Feb. 1903; re-enlisted. 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct.
following, and was reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov., and is
now assumed to have been killed in action between those dates; _m._
=WALSH, GEOFFREY PENNELL=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn.
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), elder _s._ of the late
James Joseph Walsh, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, R.N. (who was lost on H.M.S.
Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), by his wife, Eveline
Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell;
_b._ Sheerness, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Eversley School, Southwold;
St. Paul’s and Pembroke College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd
Sherwood Foresters, 15 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1915; went to
France, 16 May, 1915; was attd. to 2nd Battn. and was killed in action
at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge; _unm._ His
Commanding Officer wrote: “Though he had only been with us a few weeks,
he was very popular with both officers and men, and he is a great loss
to the service;” and his tutor from Pembroke College, Oxford, wrote:
“He only gave us pleasure. From the first he took his full share of
college life, his energies mostly given to the river. He leaves behind
him a memory upon which it is a pleasure to dwell.”
=WALSH, JAMES=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 205302, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WALSH, JAMES=, Acting Corpl., No. 12/1822, Auckland Infantry
Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; served in Egypt and at the
Dardanelles, was reported missing after the fighting on 8 Aug. 1915,
and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.
=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH=, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, Royal Navy, H.M.S.
Good Hope, yst. _s._ of the late Patrick James Walsh; _b._
Wexford, 29 Sept. 1863; educ. St. Peter’s College, Wexford, and the
Royal University of Ireland; graduated. M.B. 1885, and was appointed
Surgeon, Royal Navy, 20 Aug. of the same year; promoted Staff Surgeon,
20 Aug. 1897, and Fleet Surgeon, 20 Aug. 1901, and was lost in the
sinking of H.M.S. Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914. He
_m._ at St. Paul’s Church, Sheerness, Kent, 21 Jan. 1891, Eveline
Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell,
and had two sons: Geoffrey Pennell, Lieutenant 3rd Sherwood Foresters,
_b._ 28 Oct. 1892, killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915; and
Raymond Neville, _b._ 10 July, 1906.
=WALSH, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 5846, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,
3rd _s._ of Thomas Walsh, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of John
Tyrrell, of Bolton; _b._ Earlestown, co. Lancashire, 3 Jan. 1885;
educ. St. Patrick’s School, Bolton; enlisted 19 Nov. 1904; was called
up from the Reserve on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30
Aug. 1914. He was reported missing, 27 Oct. 1914, and is supposed to
have been killed in action on that date. He _m._ at Nelson, 6
April, 1912, Florence Ellen (8, Eastbank Street, Barrowford, Nelson,
Lancs.), dau. of Henry Edwards, of Madeley Salop, and had a dau. Norah,
_b._ 19 March, 1913.
[Illustration: =Joseph Walsh.=]
=WALSH, PATRICK=, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 1741, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=CORMAC-WALSHE, EDWARD JOSEPH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn Prince of
Wales’) The Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th _s._ of Edward
Cormac-Walshe, of Castle Hill, Crossmolina, co. Mayo, D.L., by his
wife, Annita, dau. of Henry Hodgens, of Beaufort, co. Dublin; _b._
Bath, 6 Feb. 1892; educ. Stoneyhurst and Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.
1912), and obtained a University commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut.
2nd Leinsters, 19 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 7 May, 1913; went to
France with his regt, which formed part of the 6th Division, 22 Sept.
1914, and died in No. 13 Base Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914, from
wounds received in action on 20 Oct.; _unm._ The 6th Division was
holding the Radinghem-La Vallée-Emnetières-Copingham-Premesques Railway
Line, 300 yards east of Halte, and according to information received
from a brother officer at Premesques, Lieut. Walshe volunteered to go
with a despatch some distance, and when returning with the report to
his superior officer (Capt. Maffett, who had meanwhile been killed)
found himself under severe machine-gun fire, and sheltered behind a
hay stack, which was 300 yards from his trench. After half an hour
he emerged running head down, but received a mortal scalp wound. His
Colour-Sergeant ran out and fetched him in, and after 18 hours in the
trench he was removed to the dressing station. His Colonel wrote:
“During the attack on Premesques on the 18 Oct. he led his platoon in
a gallant and skilful manner, always the first up to show his men the
way. During that night and following night, he worked hard getting his
men entrenched. When we were counter-attacking on the morning of the
20th, he was wounded when apparently bringing a report to his Company
Commander, Capt. Maffett, who had just been killed. Your son was a
gallant officer, very popular with all ranks. We all deplore his loss.”
At Stoneyhurst he was in the football fifteen and cricket eleven, and
was for a short time before leaving Capt. of the Officer’s Cadet Corps.
[Illustration: =E. J. Cormac-Walshe.=]
=WALTER, ARGYLE FRANCIS BRADFORD=, Private, No. 2795, 13th
(Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest
_s._ of the late Francis Edward Walter, of Hornsey, N., by
his wife, Ellen Annie (65, Middle Lane, Crouch End, Hornsey, N.):
_b._ Holloway, N., 9 March, 1893; educ. L.C.C. School, Duncombe
Road, Holloway; was a Clerk in the Scottish Provident Association
Institution, Lombard Street, E.C.; volunteered and enlisted in the
Kensingtons on the outbreak of war; went with his battn. to France, 28
March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles on Sunday morning,
9 May, 1915; _unm._ A comrade said that on Sunday morning the
13th were ordered to capture certain German trenches--three successive
lines of them--and they carried out their orders with great gallantry
and success. Between the second and third lines was an open field,
across which the battn. had to rush. Private Walter was among those who
succeeded in reaching the third trench unhurt. It was then discovered
that the red flag which they carried with them to indicate to the
British Artillery behind them the point they had reached in their
advance, had been left behind inadvertently at the second line of
trenches. The officer in command called for volunteers to return and
fetch it. Before he had finished Private Walter was out of the trench
racing back across the open field under heavy fire from the enemy. He
was about five yards from the flag when he fell. So far as could be
judged he was killed instantaneously, as he was never seen to move
again.
[Illustration: =Argyle F. B. Walter.=]
=WALTER, CHARLES RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 1654, 4th Battn. (Royal
Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late Charles
Walter; _b._ Haggerston; educ. Shap Street School there; joined
the Royal Fusiliers in May 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the
outbreak of war in Aug. 1914: served with the Expeditionary Force in
France, and died in Boulogne Hospital, 3 May, 1915, of wounds received
in action; _unm._ Buried at Boulogne.
=WALTER, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 15801, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914
=WALTERS, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17428, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WALTERS, HENRY JAMES=, C.P.O (N.S.), 179888, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WALTERS, VIVIAN ARTHUR WALKER=, Leading Signalman, 228510, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WALTHAM, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Private, No. 6423, 2nd Battn Coldstream
Guards, 3rd _s._ of George Hamlin Waltham, of 3, Harold Street,
Selby, by his wife, Ellen Eliza; _b._ Hull, 7 June, 1888; educ.
Buckingham Street Board School there; was a Boilermaker; enlisted in
the Coldstreams, 17 Nov. 1905; served three years with the Colours;
went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 4 Field Ambulance, 9
Nov. following, of wounds received at the First Battle of Ypres that
day. He was buried in the N.W. corner of the field, east of Château,
1½ miles west of Ypres, on the Vlamertinghe Road. He _m._ at the
Congregational Church, Selby, 1911, Harriett (Staynor House, Denison
Road, Selby, co. Yorks), 3rd dau. of William Cass, and had a son,
William Ernest, _b._ 31 Jan. 1912.
[Illustration: =William E. Waltham.=]
=WALTHO, THOMAS JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5537),
S.S. 100433, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=WALTON, GEORGE HENRY=, Sergt., R.M.A. (R.F.R., 0696), R.M.A.
4367, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WALTON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8670,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=WALTON, RICHARD CRAWHALL=, Lieut., 1st Battn. 9th Gurkha Rifles,
Indian Army; elder _s._ of Richard Walton, of 5, Croxteth Grove,
Liverpool, Secretary in Liverpool Northern Assurance Co., Ltd.,
President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool, and Fellow of the
Chartered Insurance Institute, by his wife, Judith, dau. of the late
Joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; _b._ Clifton, Bristol, 1
March, 1886; educ. Liverpool College, and passed into Sandhurst in
1905, being third on the list in that half-year’s examinations. A year
later he passed out second in order of merit, with honours, and was
placed first of the Cadets for the Indian Army, winning the coveted
Norman medal, then presented for the first time. He was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 29 Aug. 1906, and
promoted Lieut. 29 Nov. 1908; served his first year with the 1st Prince
of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt.; was posted to the 9th Gurkhas, 12
Nov. 1907; appointed Double Company Officer, 17 Nov. 1907, and Qr.-Mr.
18 Jan. 1914; left India with the Expeditionary Force for France on the
outbreak of war, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, during
the first Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914; _unm._ Lieut. Walton was
an all-round sportsman, and when in garrison at Chitral engaged in big
game shooting, fine specimens of markhor, oorial, tahr, black and red
bear, deer and leopard, being among his trophies. He was also an expert
horseman and polo player, and was considered one of the best judges of
ponies on his station. He rode Mr. Lee’s Ringette, the winner of the
Murree Cup at the Gharial Races in 1907.
[Illustration: =Richard Crawhall Walton.=]
=WAND, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R), Ch./8521, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WANDBY, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5312), S.S. 42, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WANDS, ANDREW EASTON=, L.-Corpl., No. 7689, 8th Battn. Highland
L.I. (T.F.), attd. 1/7th Royal Scots (T.F.), _s._ of the late
James Wands, of 65, Glasgow Road, Wishaw, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau.
of Andrew Easton; _b._ Wishaw, co. Lanark, 18 Aug. 1893; educ.
Berryhill School there; was Craneman G.I.S.W., Wishaw; joined the 8th
Highland L.I., 1908, and served five years, rejoining, 15 Aug. 1914,
after the outbreak of war; was attached to the 1/7th Royal Scots, and
left with them for the Dardanelles 22 May, 1915, and was killed in
action at the capture of the Sagir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, following;
_unm._
=WARBURTON, JOHN ALFRED=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East
Lancashire Regt., _s._ of the late Joseph Warburton, Cooper, by
his wife, Emma (117, Walter Street, Blackburn); _b._ Blackburn,
10 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Matthew’s School there; enlisted 18 March,
1901; served through the South African War, 1901–02 (Queen’s medal),
after which he proceeded with his regt. to India, but later returned to
South Africa, where he was stationed until the outbreak of the European
War; went to France 2 Nov., came through the action at Neuve Chapelle
safely, but was killed the following day, 15 March, 1915, while trying
to locate a German sniper; _unm._ While in India he scored many
successes in regimental competitions.
=EGERTON-WARBURTON, PIERS (PETER)=, Private, No. 903, 10th Light
Horse (Western Australian) Regt., Australian Imperial Force, 4th
_s._ of the late Rowland Egerton-Warburton, by his wife, Mary
(Stonyhurst, Williams River, Western Australia), dau. of John M.
Kail, and grandson of the late George Edward Egerton-Warburton, of
St. Werburgh’s, Albany, Western Australia, sometime 51st Regt [5th
_s._ of the Rev. Rowland Egerton-Warburton. of Warburton and
Arley, co. Chester]; _b._ Perth, Western Australia, 13 July,
1892; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt
in April; went to the Dardanelles in May, and died in No. 1 General
Hospital, Alexandria, 19 Aug. following, of wounds received on the 9th
in the great attempt to storm the Turkish positions, when the 8th and
10th Light Horse were almost annihilated; _unm._
[Illustration: =Piers Egerton-Warburton.=]
=WARD, ARTHUR=, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 6330, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARD, ARTHUR PERCY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 3850),
196305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARD, ARTHUR RENOLD=, Private, No. 1196, 2nd Battn. (Royal
Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late (--) Ward,
by his wife, Eliza (126, Commercial Road, Camberwell, S.E.); _b._
Walworth, S.E., 3 Sept. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Street Board School
there; joined the 2nd London Regt. about Aug. 1912; volunteered for
foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in
Dec. and died 4 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._
=WARD, BASIL MIGNOT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Essex Regt., yr. _s._
of Arthur John Hanslip Ward. V.D., D.L., Town Clerk of Harwich, and
Col. 1st Suffolk and Harwich R.G.A. Vol. (which he raised and commanded
1899–1906), by his wife, Eleanor Katherine Mignot, only dau. of John
Brown, of Altwood, Maidenhead; _b._ Dovercourt, co. Essex, 20 Feb.
1888; educ. The Tower School, Dovercourt; Felsted School and the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Essex Regt., 8
Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut., 25 Sept. 1911, and Capt., 26 April,
1915; served in Burma, India, and Mauritius; and with the Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force; and was killed in action during the landing at
the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried on the shore of
Gallipoli, just above W. Beach. His Commanding Officer (who was himself
killed a few days later) wrote: “He was such a good officer, and so
much beloved by us all. It must indeed be terrible for you, but you
have the consolation that he died fighting for his country, and no one
could die a more noble death. He fell the first day we landed, but not
before he had proved what a gallant fearless officer he was. In the
Regt. we shall miss him dreadfully.” He was a Freemason, and a member
of the Hanslip Ward Lodge, into which he was initiated by his father;
he was also a member of the St. Nicholas Mark Lodge.
[Illustration: =Basil Mignot Ward.=]
=WARD, HENRY DE COURCY=, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., 2nd _s._ of
the late Commander Henry Purcell Ward, R.N., by his wife, Elizabeth,
dau. of Robert Allan, of Springfield House, Havant, co. Hants, and
grandson of Capt. Richard Ward, R.N.; _b._ Kingstown, co. Dublin,
4 July, 1862; educ. Vickerys, Southsea; entered the Navy 15 July,
1878, and became Paymaster in 1895 and Fleet Paymaster in Aug. 1903.
He served on H.M. Ships Wolverine, Miranda and Rapid, Australian
Station; H.M.S. Emerald, North American Station; H.M.S. Firebrand,
China Station; and H.M.S. Triumph and Indomitable, Home Fleet; and was
appointed to H.M.S. Cressy in Dec. 1913, being present on the latter at
the action off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914. He was lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when the Cressy was torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine. A survivor said: “Ward managed to reach
a life-buoy, which was supporting the Doctor and Chaplain. When he
found he could hold on no longer without taxing the strength of the
others (our Chaplain, the writer says, could not swim), he slipped
off, telling the others to save themselves, and sank with a cheery
good-bye to us all.” And the Chaplain wrote: “The courage of Ward, the
calmness with which he faced death was typical of the bravery of the
rest.” Capt. Ozanne, R.M.L.I., another of the survivors, wrote: “I
hope someone has told his wife what a fine thing he did. Ward passed
me swimming hard. He was splendid, letting go a life-buoy which he
had hold of, as our Chaplain, who couldn’t swim, was on it, and so
was the Doctor, who was looking after him. He apparently thought they
would get on better without him. He is a great loss, he kept things
going in a wonderful way.” Fleet Paymaster H. de C. Ward was selected
as one of the Naval interpreters to escort the officers of the French
Fleet during the Entente Cordiale festivities in Aug. 1906, and was
also chosen when the Indomitable took the Prince of Wales (now King
George V.) to Quebec for the Tercentenary Celebrations in July, 1908.
He _m._ at Kilmaronaig Lodge, Connel, co. Argyle, 10 July, 1900,
Emelie Chisholm, 2nd dau. of the late Staff Surgeon Richard McClymont,
R.N., by his wife, Anne Constance (who _m._ 2ndly Archibald Argyll
Lochnell Campbell, 13th, of Lochnell), dau. of Inspector General
(of Asylums) John Francis Fitzgerald, of Glenlee Lodge, Cheltenham;
_s.p._ His brothers, Paymaster-in-Chief Charles A. Ward, R.N., and
Col. W. R. Ward, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, are on service.
[Illustration: =Henry de Courcy Ward.=]
=WARD, HENRY=, Private, No. 2010, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards;
_b._ co. Durham; enlisted 20 Sept. 1898; served in South Africa,
15 April, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the
Expeditionary Force in France from 11 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 22
Oct. 1914; _m._
=WARD, HERBERT ALFRED=, Sergt., R.M.A., 5345, H.M.S. Hogue; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARD, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 8066, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire L.I., 1st _s._ of Stephen Ward, of Westbury,
Brackley, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Merry;
b. Brackley, 20 May, 1886; educ. Brackley National School; joined
2nd Oxford and Bucks, L.I., 21 Oct. 1905; left for France, 14 Aug.
1914, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May, 1915;
_unm._ Buried, Rue du Bois, near Richebourg l’Avoué.
[Illustration: =James Ward.=]