Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only child of John Edward Ward,
of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent, employee of the South-Eastern
Railway, by his wife, Kate Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Warner, of 39,
North Street, Ashford, Kent; _b._ Ashford, 15 July, 1891; educ.
Grammar School there, and on leaving secured an appointment at the
Folkestone Branch of Lloyd’s Bank. After three years there he was given
a special appointment at the Southsea Branch; remaining there for 13
months, he was then transferred to the Westgate Branch and from there
to the head office in Lombard Street. Two days after the declaration of
war (7 Aug. 1914) he joined the London Rifle Brigade, left England with
it on 2 Nov. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ploegsteert,
Belgium, 9 Dec., 1914; _unm._ His Company Officer, Capt. H.
Macfeogh, wrote that by his death he “had lost one of the best men of
his Company.” Ward had for many years been studying organ and piano,
was a prize winner Trinity College, was assistant organist at Ashford
Parish Church, was also a gifted accompanist on the piano and in great
request at concerts. Was a choir boy at Ashford Parish Church for
some years, soloist for two years until his voice broke. Resting from
singing for some years, he again started by studying voice production
under Mr. Fletcher of Folkestone, and later on under Mr. Franklin
Clive, of London, and he developed a baritone voice of exceptional
quality and power, and was seen in many provincial productions, and was
heard to much advantage in the production of “The Geisha” at Portsmouth
Theatre Royal by the Portsmouth Orpheus Society. In this production he
played “Reggie Fairfax,” the part originally played in London by Mr.
C. Hadyn Coffin. His first appearance on the concert platform was at
the age of three, when he sang a little solo in a children’s operetta,
and at intervals he appeared for years in many operettas and at many
concerts, until his departure for the Front. He was a fine cricketer,
and still holds the record for the Ashford Grammar School Eleven
against club cricketers (not school cricket), viz., 168 not out, which
he scored against the Ashford Drapers Cricket Club for the Grammar
School in 1913. Another notable feat in his cricket career was 59 in
the morning, l.b.w. out, and 59 in the afternoon, l.b.w. out, against
a very strong combination Great Chart Cricket Club in 1910. His last
season of cricket he played on the London grounds for the Private Banks
C.C. and also for the Droits C.C. and scored up to the time of his
enlistment in Aug., 9 runs short of 1,000 runs. This would have been,
had he kept playing, his best season. He did not make a century in 1914
but scored 95, 98, 90 and 84, thus getting near it on four occasions.
He topped the averages in all clubs he played for at some time of his
cricket career, and was looked upon as a fine sporting bat by all good
judges of the game.
[Illustration: =John Edward Ward.=]
=WARD, THOMAS LEONARD=, Private, No. 1859, 11th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, only _s._ of the late Henry Walter Ward, of 34,
St. Paul’s Road, Camden Town, N., for many years an optician with Adam
Hilger, Stanhope Street, N.W., by his wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth, dau. of
William Bartlett; _b._ London, 28 March, 1890; educ. Camden Town
National School and Ditcheat Council School; went to Australia, 28 Oct.
1911; bought property in Narrogin, and farmed for himself 633 acres
at Corrogin, W.A.; joined the 11th Battn. Jan. 1914; sailed for Egypt
with the fourth reinforcements; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 25 May,
1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Alexandria, 10 Aug. following,
of wounds received in action at Shell Green, Anzac, on or about 5 Aug.
Buried in Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria, Grave No. 1240; _unm._ A
comrade wrote: “Tom’s first thought was for his comrades; he even went
so far as sharing his water allowance at a time when every drop was a
luxury.” Another wrote: “His fearlessness was noticeable even among
‘our set.’ He died the death he chose--one of many heroes.”
[Illustration: =Thomas Leonard Ward.=]
=WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1368), 194032, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=WARDALE, CLARENCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., C. 229), S.S. 1740, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARDE, BRIAN EDMUND DOUGLAS=, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve),
attd. 4th, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Major Charles
Aprilis Warde, late 7th Dragoon Guards and 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers,
and now 2nd in command of 15th Battn. R.F., by his wife Felicia,
dau. of James Richard Alexander Douglas, of Treaty House, Hounslow,
F.R.C.S.; _b._ Hounslow, 29 July, 1894; educ. at Bilton Grange,
Rugby; and Lancing College, Shoreham, where he was second classic, and
Captain of his house. He was intending to go to Ceylon as a planter,
but on the day war was declared applied for a commission and was
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old battn., 15 Aug. 1914, being
promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. following. After training at Dover and taking
part in the defences of the fortress, he left for the Front with a
draft of the 4th Battn. on 29 Dec. He served with that Battn. at Ypres,
St. Eloi, and elsewhere in Flanders, until his death in action at
Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. That day he was the last officer of
his company unhurt. He had helped to take three lines of the enemy’s
trenches, had then fallen back to the 2nd line again, where his wounded
Capt. saw him, quite calm and unconcerned, leading a handful of men
down the trench. He jumped on the parapet to fire at and bomb a party
of the enemy, when he fell shot through the head. An hour later he
died, never having recovered consciousness, and was buried in the
trench where he was shot; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote of
him: “He will be a great loss to us, he was always cheerful, was a
very brave officer, and a real good leader of men.... He was sniped
from the flank and killed dead.” Lieut. Warde was a splendid gameshot,
and devoted to field sports and to nature generally. He possessed an
excellent knowledge of French.
[Illustration: =Brian E. D. Warde.=]
=WARDEN, ERNEST=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24984 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WAREING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6370, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WARLOW, THEODORE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. King’s
Own Yorkshire L.I., elder _s._ of the Rev. George Edmund Warlow,
M.A., Vicar of Ledsham, South Milford, Yorkshire, by his wife, Ellen
Constance, dau. of Ferdinand Gozna Eiloart; _b._ St Anne’s
Wycombe, Marsh, co. Bucks, 15 March, 1895; and was educ. at Doon House,
Westgate-on-Sea, and Bradfield College, where he gained an Exhibition,
was a Sergt. in the O.T.C. and obtained Certificate “A.” He left
Bradfield, July, 1914, and was to have gone up to University College,
Oxford, the following Oct., but on the outbreak of war he applied for a
commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th K.O.Y.L.I., 14 Aug.
1914, he was promoted Lieut. 25 Oct. following, went to France 21 May,
1915; and died at a stationary hospital, Boulogne, 28 July, 1915, of
wounds received at Hooge on the 19th, while endeavouring to bring in a
wounded Corpl. Buried at Boulogne; _unm._ Major E. H. Rigg wrote:
“He was a good soldier, and his loss is deeply felt by all ranks,” and
2nd Lieut. R. G. Royle: “Being in the same company, I can bear personal
witness to the great esteem his soldierly abilities and his remarkably
sunny disposition have engendered amongst everybody.”
[Illustration: =Theodore W. Warlow.=]
=PICTON-WARLOW, WILFRED=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., and Royal
Flying Corps, 7th and yst. _s._ of Col. John Picton Turbervill,
formerly Picton-Warlow, of Ewenny Priory, Bridgend, Glamorgan, late
Indian Staff Corps, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, yst. dau. of Sir
Grenville Temple, of Stowe, 10th Bart.; _b._ Laleston House,
Bridgend, 6 April, 1884; educ. Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
the 2nd Welsh from the Guernsey Militia, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted
Lieut. 28 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 7 June, 1913; attached Military Wing of
the Royal Flying Corps as Flying officer, 14 Aug. 1913; and promoted
Flight Commander, 1 May, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to France
with the Expeditionary Force, and on 20 Dec. 1914 left St. Omer for
Dover. He was seen flying over Calais that same day, but nothing
more was heard of him, and he is believed to have been drowned while
crossing the Channel; _unm._
[Illustration: =Wilfred Picton-Warlow.=]
=WARNE, JAMES FELIX=, Rifleman, No. 1966, 9th Battn. (Queen
Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late
Charles Warne, Founder of the Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, and
brother to Frederick Warne, editor of the Bristol Free Press; _b._
Old Kent Road, S.E., 5 Oct. 1886; educ. Cobourg Road Council School
there; was a Clerk with Messrs. Foster, Porter & Co., Wood Street,
E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria
Rifles, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at
Ypres, 1 April, 1915, while on observation duty; _unm._ Buried in
a railway cutting near Hill 60. Capt. H. Flemming wrote: “He had done
excellent work since he has been in my company.”
[Illustration: =James Felix Warne.=]
=WARNER, CORNWALLIS JOHN=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd
Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd _s._ of Col. Sir
Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet, C.B., M.P.; formerly Lieut.-Col. and
Hon. Col. commanding the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I., Lord Lieutenant
co. Suffolk, by his wife, Lady Leucha Diana, née Maude, 6th dau. of
Cornwallis, 1st Earl de Montalt; _b._ Highams, Woodford Green, co.
Essex, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; called to the
Bar, 1910, and in Dec. of that year unsuccessfully contested Salisbury
as a Liberal; joined the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I. as 2nd Lieut., 25
July, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1910; resigned May, 1914,
but rejoined 26 Sept. following; went to France Dec. 1914, where he was
attached to the 2nd battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at
Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I
cannot say how I miss your son. He did such excellent work last spring
that if he had been spared at Richebourg, as far as I am concerned, he
would have commanded a company here ever since. There are a thousand
and one jobs I would have given him to do, he was such a very useful
and reliable officer in so many ways.”
[Illustration: =Cornwallis J. Warner.=]
=WARNER, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 8649, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Frederick Neville Warner, of Bentfield End,
Stansted, co. Essex, Removal Packer, by his wife, Caroline Amelia,
dau. of Henry Jarvis; _b._ Bethnal Green, London, 19 Jan. 1891;
educ. London Council School; was a Cycle Fitter by trade; enlisted in
the Coldstreams, 17 March, 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary
Force, 12 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles
of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action 25 Oct. 1914;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Frederick Warner.=]
=WARNER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B., 207043, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARNER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4383), S.S.
103360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, ARTHUR ERNEST=, A.B., J. 8681, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 5689), 214567
Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, MARK=, L.-Corpl., G. 153, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.
(The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in
action, 8 Feb. 1915.
=WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (Coastguard), 204414 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARREN, JAMES PERCY SOLTAU=, Corpl., No. 511, 5th Battn. 2nd
Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of the
late William Warren, of Melbourne, Physician and Surgeon, by his wife,
Charlotte Matilda (9, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, W.), dau of
Henry Soltau, of Plymouth, Barrister; _b._ Melbourne, Australia,
23 May, 1883; educ. Scotch College there; was a Grazier; joined the
Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War in Aug.
1914; left Australia in Sept. 1914 for training in Egypt, and was
killed in action at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, during the landing
there. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Carter, wrote: “He was a gallant
soldier and we could ill afford to lose him. He was killed in our
successful attempt to take the gun to the heights north of Gaba Tepe.”
He _m._ at Kew, Melbourne, 19 Jan. 1909, Stella May (Bull Plains
Station, Corowa, New South Wales), dau. of the late Edward James Rand,
of Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, and had three children: Cecil,
_b._ 10 Nov. 1909; and Audrey and May (twins), _b._ 9 Feb.
1912.
[Illustration: =James P. S. Warren.=]
=WARREN, JOHN ALEXANDER=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16653, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=WARREN, PATRICK=, Private, No. 11041, 1st Battn. Scots Guards;
_b._ Killarney, co. Kerry; enlisted 14 Sept. 1914, aged 30; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action,
12 March, 1915. Buried at Le Touret and the spot marked by a cross.
=WARREN, REGINALD DOUGLAS=, Trooper, No. 2058, 1/1st Royal East
Kent Mounted Rifles, 1/1st South Eastern Mounted Brigade, _s._
of Edward George Warren, of 32, Lyndhurst Road, Hove, by his wife,
Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Sharp, of Kilnsea, Yorkshire; _b._
Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Berkhampstead and Brighton Grammar
Schools; was on the staff of Messrs. Lloyds Bank at Cliftonville,
Margate; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to the Eastern front 25 Sept.
1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 7 Dec. following, being
buried in Y Ravine there; _unm._ Major A. Leach Lewis wrote: “The
lad died fighting and in the best of spirits. It was about 8.15 a.m. on
Tuesday last that he was endeavouring to hit a periscope in the Turkish
trench, when a sniper shot him from another part of the line. Your son
had made himself extremely popular being always keen, cheerful and
amusing. We have lost a good comrade, whose loss we all regret.”
[Illustration: =Reginald D. Warren.=]
=WARREN, ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25515, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WARREN, SYDNEY CHAS.=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2789), 205935, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=WARREN, WALTER=, Sergt., No. 294, 1/28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles)
The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of the late Henry Warren, of
Stevenage, co. Herts, by his wife, Clara, dau. of Thomas Phillips;
_b._ Sloane Square, Chelsea, S.W., 11 July, 1877; educ. City of
London School; was a member of the Baltic Exchange; joined the Artists’
Rifles in 1900; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war;
went to France with the 1st Battn., 26 Oct. 1914, and was killed in
action at Neuve Eglise, 27 Nov. 1914; _unm._ On that morning the
left half battalion had marched out to dig trenches in the artillery
beaten zone, and shortly after commencing work came under fire of heavy
German guns. Sergt. Warren and a comrade were killed by practically the
first shot. His Colonel wrote: “The loss is ours as well as yours....
Your son was splendid and had the goodwill and affection of every man
in the Corps”; and a fellow Sergt.: “There was no one but spoke well
of him, and those of us Sergts. who were privileged to know him best
feel the loss more than we can express. He was beloved by everyone, was
always cheery, and always doing somebody a good turn.” Walter Warren.
[Illustration: =Walter Warren.=]
=WARRENDER, ANDREW ROBERTSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B.
6334), 286718, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=WARTH, EDWIN FREDERICK=, B.Sc., Sapper, No. 864, 1st Field
Coy., R.N. Divisional Engineers, yst. _s._ of Hugo F. Warth,
D.Sc., sometime Deputy Director Geological Survey of India; _b._
Mussoorie, U.P., India, 12 Aug. 1888; educ. privately, King Edward VI
School, Birmingham (1899–1905); and Birmingham University (1905–10),
where he graduated B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1st Class). On leaving
there he was from 1910 to 1913 with Messrs. Nuthall & Co., engaged
in the construction of a pipe line from Thirlmere for the Manchester
Water Supply. In 1913 he went to the Grand Canary and was there at the
outbreak of war, surveying for the New Las Palmas Water Supply. He had
to undergo an operation before he could offer himself for military
service and did not reach England till Nov. Having been a member of the
Birmingham University O.T.C. (1905–10), he applied for a commission,
and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 March, 1915, but having in the interval
enlisted as a Sapper in the R.N.D.E. and left for the Dardanelles, he
was unable to take it up. He was wounded in action in the Gallipoli
Peninsula 16 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Alexandria, 25 June
following; _unm._ He was buried there.
[Illustration: =Edwin F. Warth.=]
=WARTON, ROBERT INNYS BAKER=, Sapper, No. 5233, 1st Field Coy.,
Canadian Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th _s._ of
the late Matthew Henry Warton, of London, Solicitor, by his wife,
Mary (Portsdown, Darley Road, Eastbourne), dau. of the late Capt.
John Fenwick; _b._ Loughton, co. Essex, 19 Feb. 1879; educ.
Marlborough, and afterwards passed law examinations for Solicitor; went
to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1903, there qualified as a Barrister
and practised later at Atlin, going to Prince Rupert in 1910, where
he went into partnership with Mr. W. E. Fisher, the firm employed by
the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co.; joined the Canadian Engineers
immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at Vancouver; came over
with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the front in Feb. 1915, and
was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915,
while guarding a bridge over the Yser Canal, north of Ypres; _unm._
[Illustration: =Robert Innys B. Warton.=]
=WASSON, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7875), S.S. 103313,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=WATERFIELD, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Capt. 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, attd.
15th Sikhs, Indian Army; yst. _s._ of the late Major-General Henry
Gordon Waterfleld, C.B., 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, by his wife, Emily
Scott (Harbledown, Canterbury), dau. of the late Edmund Scott Barber;
_b._ Dulwich, 22 Sept. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
unattached list, Indian Army, 22 Jan. 1898; was attached to the 1st
Gordon Highlanders, 7 April, 1898; joined the 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, 7
April, 1899; promoted Lieut. 22 April, 1900, and Capt. 22 Jan. 1907;
took part in the China Expedition, 1900 (medal); served on the N.W.
Frontier of India, 1908; took part in the operations in the Zakka Khel
country, and those in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp); was in
England on leave when war broke out, and served for three months with
the 6th (Service) Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; was attached to the
15th Sikhs, then in France, early in Nov. 1914; was wounded at the
Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March 1915; and again near Richebourg
l’Avoué on 18 May following, and died in Bethune Hospital, 21 May,
1915. He was buried in the Town Cemetery there. A brother officer
wrote: “I have known Charlie for fifteen years--we went to China
together and were intimately associated in our work and our play, and
linked by a friendship which distance and time could never affect.
He was the very best type of English officer, as brave as a lion; of
strong character, indomitable energy, and popular everywhere, without
ever seeking popularity. A splendid soldier in every way.” In 1912–13
he accompanied the late Capt. Pritchard, 83rd Wallajahbad Light
Infantry, in a journey of exploration beyond the frontier of Northern
Burma. Capt. Pritchard was drowned while crossing one of the rivers and
Capt. Waterfield brought the party back alone showing great courage
and endurance under very difficult and dangerous conditions. He was
awarded the MacGregor Memorial Silver Medal for his expedition, the
honour coming a month after his death. Capt. Waterfield _m._ at
Clayton, Sussex, 9 Jan. 1915, Ethel (Royston, Hassocks, Sussex), only
dau. of the Rev. George Edward Roberts, of Royston, Hassocks, Sussex;
_s.p._
[Illustration: =Frederick C. Waterfield.=]
=WATERING, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 6717, 2nd
Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd _s._ of the late Arthur Fergerson
O’Connor Watering, by his wife, Harriet (2, Roynham Street, North
Heigham, Norwich), dau. of the late Arthur Fergus O’Connor, Sergt.,
2nd Battn. The Royal Scots; _b._ Norwich, 17 April, 1881; educ.
Heigham School there; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 17 April, 1899;
became L.-Corpl. 19 Jan. 1901; Corpl. 20 June, 1902; Sergt. 29 Dec.
1906; Colour-Sergt. 1 Oct. 1913; and Coy. Sergt.-Major, 1 Oct. 1913;
served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medals),
and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.
to 15 Oct. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at Croix
Barbée, and was buried at Vieille Chapelle, France. He _m._ at
Newlands, Glasgow, 26 Dec. 1911, Elizabeth (died 15 Oct. 1913), dau. of
John Burt, and had a son, William Burt Paterson, _b._ 15 Oct. 1913.
[Illustration: =William Ernest Watering.=]
=WATERMAN, LEONARD GORDON=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16648, H.M.S.
Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WATERMAN, ROBERT ALBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26355, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WATERS, ARTHUR DAVIS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111853, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WATERS, GEOFFREY ERNEST=, Private, No. 245, 1/5th Battn.
(London Rifle Brigade) The Loudon Regt. (T.F.), 4th _s._ of the
late John Waters, of Wimbledon, co. Surrey, by his wife, Alice (St.
Denis, Parkwood Road, Bournemouth), dau. of John Freeman; _b._
Wimbledon, 12 Jan. 1896; educ. Merton Park C.E. School, where he gained
a scholarship for Rutlish Science School (Sept. 1907 to July, 1912),
and on leaving there entered the Banking Department of Messrs. T. Cook
& Son, of Ludgate Circus, Tourist Agents. After the outbreak of war he
joined the L.R.B. 24 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 27 March, and died
in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 9 May, 1915, from wounds received
in action; _unm._ He was buried in the Military Cemetery at
Boulogne. From Merton Park School he gained a scholarship to Rutlish,
obtaining a first place for all Surrey. He won the Surrey County Junior
Scholarship (1907–11), the Senior ditto (1911–12), and the John James
School Scholarship (1910–12), and passed the London University Junior
School Exam, with honours, July, 1910; the same Senior Exam, July,
1911, and the same Exam, with additional subjects again in 1912.
[Illustration: =Geoffrey Ernest Waters.=]
=WATERS, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., _s._ of
the late Eaton William Waters, of Tramore, co. Waterford, M.D., by
his wife, Mary, dau. of William Edwards; _b._ Tramore, 28 Sept.
1862; educ. Tramore Boarding School and Waterford High School, and
Queen’s (now University) College, Galway (1880–84, Exhibition in
Mathematics), and having completed his medical studies in Dublin
at the Carmichael College of Medicine, the Richmond, Whitworth and
Hardwick Hospitals, and the Coombe Hospital, he graduated M.D., M.Ch.,
at the Royal University of Ireland in 1884. After a voyage to India
in the Clan Matheson, he spent some 18 months in the Melrose plying
between Cape Town and East African ports, and entered the Royal
Navy, 17 Aug. 1887, being bracketed second place. He was promoted
Staff Surgeon, 17 Aug. 1899, and Fleet Surgeon 1905, and served in
the R.N. Hospital, Haslar, and H.M. ships Hearty (engaged in fishery
protection in the North Sea, 1890); Boomerang (on Australian Station,
1891–94); Caledonia (Queensferry); Cockatrice (Danube, 1899); Psyche
(West Indies); Illustrious (Channel, present at Brest fêtes, 1905),
and Drake (accompanied Admiral of the Fleet Sir E. H. Seymour to the
Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York, 1909), and was then appointed
P.M.O. at Whale Island (H.M.S. Excellent), where he was when war broke
out. He was appointed to H.M.S. Goliath (battleship, 12,950 tons,
Capt. Thomas Shelford), Aug. 1914; early in Nov. she took part in the
operations against the German light cruiser Königsberg, blocking her
into the Rufigi River, where she was later destroyed; and on 1 Dec.
with the light cruiser Fox, in the bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam, the
capital of German East Africa, when she successfully disabled the many
vessels in the harbour. Ordered to the Dardanelles in April, 1915,
she helped to cover the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and on 13
May, 1915, while engaged in protecting the right flank of the French
Army, was struck by three torpedoes and sunk in two minutes. Only 166
survivors were picked up, Fleet Surgeon Waters being among those lost;
_unm._
[Illustration: =George Alexander Waters.=]
=WATERS, THOMAS ROBERT=, Chief Armourer, 341363, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.