Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHEELER, LLOYD CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9442 (R.F.R., I.C. 81),
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=WHEELER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8118 (R.F.R., I.C.
29), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHEELER, WILLIAM JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8638, 2nd Battn. The Royal
Scots, _s._ of William John Wheeler, by his wife, Maria; _b._
Kingston-on-Thames, 12 July, 1880; educ. Public School there; was a
House Decorator; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 Oct. 1903; served at
Glencorse and in India; went to France, 26 Aug., and was killed in
action at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; being
buried there. He _m._ at Kingston, 19 Oct. 1908, Charlotte Madge
(18, Royal Oak Road, Woking), 2nd dau. of Arthur Hillier; _s.p._
=WHELAN, BERNARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9861), S.S.
107270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHENNELL, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7812), S.S.
103273, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHETLOR, ARTHUR CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6180), 214591,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHICHELLO, RICHARD WILLIAM=, Sergt., R.M.A. 7928, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHICHER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1521), 206022, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHILES, SIDNEY HERBERT=, Rifleman, No. 1886, 12th Battn. (The
Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Herbert
Whiles, of 70, Northcote Road, Walthamstow, late Private, No. 6824,
Army Service Corps (served with the Expeditionary Force in France,
etc., and was discharged April 1916, owing to injury to eye), by his
wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steuber; _b._ Leytonstone, 19 Nov.
1896; educ. Forest Road Council School, Walthamstow, and Walthamstow
Higher Elementary School, at both of which he gained prizes for
mathematics, and also showed proficiency in Art and Divinity; became
a clerk in the National Amalgamated Insurance Society; joined the
Rangers, Jan. 1914, and volunteered for Imperial Service on the
outbreak of war; went to France with the first draft for his battn.
which formed part of the 11th Brigade (4th Division), and was killed in
action near the village of Fortuin during the Second Battle of Ypres,
26 April; _unm._ Buried at Fortuin. His Commander wrote: That he
was a gallant soldier throughout and that he personally regretted his
loss, as he had frequently accompanied the officer on billet finding
expeditions, in which his knowledge of French enabled him to act as
interpreter. A brass plate to his memory was placed in the church of
St. Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow (where he was a chorister for
eight years), by his old comrades.
[Illustration: =Sidney Herbert Whiles.=]
=WHISKIN, ERNEST CHARLES=, Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 16th (Queen’s
Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of the
late Charles Frederick Whiskin, by his wife, Susanna Agnes; _b._
Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 13 May, 1870, and educated there. He joined the
Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1892, and in 1908, when the Territorial
Force was formed, he continued his service in the same regt. Holding
an important position at Messrs. Jas. Shoolbred & Co., Ltd., he was
for many years a Sergt. in the firm’s Company, which rank he held
when the Battn. left for France on 1 Nov. 1914. His was the first
company to take over a fire trench on the 14th of that month, when
they relieved B Coy. of the East Yorkshires at Burnt-out Farm, near
Gris Pot, he being at the time No. 1 Platoon Sergt. He was promoted
to Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action
at Houplines, Flanders, 3 May following. C.Q.M.S. Whiskin had the
Volunteer Long Service medal, and received mention by his Colonel for
good service in France; he was a good shot, and was held in high esteem
by his officers, brother N.C.Os. and men. He _m._ at St. Pancras,
Marylebone Road, London, 6 Sept. 1902, Annie Ethel (Bancroft, Powys
Lane, Palmer’s Green, N.), dau. of Henry Barham, of Hitchin, and had
two daughters: Agnes Nora, _b._ 19 July, 1903; and Winifred Ethel,
_b._ 30 May, 1906.
[Illustration: =Ernest Charles Whiskin.=]
=WHITAKER, CHARLES=, A.B., 239469, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITAKER, HAROLD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest
_s._ of Arthur Whitaker, of 52, Cadogan Square, S.W., by his wife,
Emily, dau. of Charles Wilkin; _b._ London, 22 Sept. 1885; educ.
Westgate-on-Sea (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey), Eton (Mr. E. Impey’s House),
and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (from which he passed out
first of the Infantry candidates of his term in 1904); gazetted 2nd
Lieut. 2nd Rifle Brigade, 4 June, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 15 Sept.
1907, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1913; served in Egypt, the Sudan and India,
was Assistant Provost Marshal of the Delhi Durbar, 1911 (medal);
returned to England with his regt. in Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov.
following, and was killed in action near Fauquissart on the night of
1–2 Dec. 1914, when, after visiting his sentries he had gone forward
alone about 1.30 a.m. to reconnoitre, it having been surmised that
fresh German troops had taken up positions in front of our line of
trenches. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an
ardent explorer and keen big game shot. Besides expeditions on the
White Nile, in Kashmir and Mesopotamia, he returned to India in 1908
through Russia, Central Asia and Turkestan, the latter part of this
journey he made with native following only, which no English traveller
had done before crossing 23 passes over 10,000 feet high, the highest
being the Karakorum, 18,317 feet above sea level. He _m._ at
Grayshott, co. Hants, 27 April, 1910, Madeleine Eléonore, dau. of
David de Pury, of Grayshott and Neuchatel, Switzerland, and had two
children: John de Pury, _b._ 10 Oct. 1911; and Lorraine Marie,
_b._ 30 July, 1914. It is feared that his younger brother, Lieut.
Trevor Whitaker, R.N., lost his life on active service in the North
Sea in Jan. 1915. A still younger brother, Capt. and Adjutant Raymond
Whitaker, Rifle Brigade, is now (1916) on active service, attd. to the
R.F.C., and his youngest brother, L.-Corpl Geoffrey Whitaker, is in the
Eton College O.T.C.
[Illustration: =Harold Whitaker.=]
=WHITBY, CHARLES BARRY DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 26022, 14th Battn.
(1st Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
eldest _s._ of Charles Joseph Whitby, of 9, The Paragon, Bath,
M.D. Cantab., by his wife, Clare, dau. of Joseph Hayden; _b._
Cambridge, 13 Nov. 1884; educ. Reading School, went to Canada about
1904, residing first in Montreal, later in Emerson and other places,
then returning to Montreal, where at the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914,
he held a position on the Staff of the “Gazette.” He at once enlisted
and went into training at Valcartier, came to England with the first
Canadian Contingent, and competed his training on Salisbury Plain. He
crossed to Flanders with his Division early in 1915, and took part in
the action at Neuve Chapelle. On 22 April, 1915, the Second Battle of
Ypres was opened by the discharge of poison gas against the Turcos, who
were driven back leaving the Canadian left exposed. On the morning of
the 24th the 14th Battn., shelled out of a shallow dug-out they had
prepared over night, in a field near St. Julien, retreated uphill under
very heavy fire. Near the summit Private Whitby was hit and fell in
a ditch, joking as he fell. He was never seen again by his comrades,
but was officially reported “wounded and missing.” Later a report by
the enemy stated that he had been picked up by them, had died on May
8 or 9, and was buried on Hill 20 (Kersselaare), not far from where
he fell. In letters received from his comrades he was described as
“a splendid soldier, always among the first to offer himself for any
dangerous duty.” While at the front Private Whitby contributed several
descriptive articles on life in the trenches to the “Montreal Gazette.”
[Illustration: =Charles B. D. Whitby.=]
=WHITCHURCH, LESLIE SEDGWICK=, Capt., 21st Prince Albert
Victor’s Own Punjab Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army, attd.
5th Dragoon Guards, 2nd _s._ of the late Rev. Walter Beaumont
Gurney Whitchurch, Rector of Spixworth, Norfolk, by his wife, Margaret
Elizabeth (Old Catton, Norfolk), dau. of (--) Sedgwick; _b._
Lockeridge House, co. Wilts, 6 April, 1880; educ. Marlborough
and Sandhurst, where he took the Queen’s Gold Medal for Military
Proficiency and the Sword of Honour, with six other prizes, and on
passing out, broke the College “record” and was given six months
seniority; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, unattd., 19 July, 1899;
entered Indian Staff College, 1 Oct. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 19
Oct. 1901; and appointed Squadron Officer in 21st Cavalry, 29 May,
1902, and became Capt., 19 July, 1908; served on the N.W. Frontier of
India, Waziristan, 1901–2 (medal with clasp), and also took part in the
operations against the Darwesh Khel Waziris, 1902; was home on leave
when the European War broke out, and at once applied to be attd. to a
British Regt.; trained reserves for the 9th Lancers at Tidworth for a
short time; was sent to France to join 5th Dragoons, 10th Squadron,
and was killed in action at Messines on 31 Oct. following, during the
First Battle of Ypres; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “He
was a most gallant and capable officer, and I was most fortunate to
have had him with me. He was killed when most gallantly holding on to
an advanced post which he had occupied with a few men on the edge of
the town, when the enemy made a very determined attack on the town we
were holding. He held on there though the enemy in force were only a
few yards away from him. He was quite dead when I reached him. I grieve
to have to tell you we were unable to bring him back. All I can say is
that it was not possible. I reported especially upon his conduct as
having been most gallant.”
[Illustration: =Leslie S. Whitchurch.=]
=WHITCOMBE, DOUGLAS JAMES AUBREY=, Private, No. 6/176, Canterbury
Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of
Frederick Whitcombe, of 24, Buckley’s Road, Linwood, Christchurch, New
Zealand, by his wife, Alice, grand. dau. of Lieut.-Col. Mein, C.B.,
of Dumfries; and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield,
Gloucester; _b._ in New Zealand, May, 1893; volunteered on the
outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._
=WHITCOMBE, GERALD AUBREY=, Trooper, No. 13/750, Auckland Mounted
Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; 2nd _s._ of George
Whitcombe, of Kawhia, New Zealand; by his wife Margaret Janet, dau.
of Albert West Sedcat, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of
Hillfield, Gloucester; _b._ New Zealand, Oct. 1890, volunteered
on the outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 Aug. 1915;
_unm._
=WHITCOMBE, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 15193, Royal Canadian Dragoons,
only _s._ of Charles Henry Whitcombe, of Sunnyside, Crudwell,
Malmesbury, F.R.C.S., by his wife, May, dau. of Richard Billiald,
of Nottingham, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield,
Gloucester; _b._ Westerham, co. Kent, 18 May, 1889; educ. the New
School, Halifax, co. York, and the Royal Latin School, co. Bucks; was
for two years in the Eastern Telegraph Co., but went to Canada in 1907
and took up farming at Pilot Mound, Manitoba. On the outbreak of the
European War he joined the Fort Garry Horse, Aug. 1914; came over with
the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in June, 1915, when he was
attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons; and died near Ploegsteert,
1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action same day; _unm._ He
was buried in the Maple Leaf Military Cemetery, Romarin, near Nieppe,
Belgium.
[Illustration: =John Whitcombe.=]
=WHITE, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman, 200784 Devonport, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHITE, ALFRED WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106882, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WHITE, BENJAMIN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11762, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 766), 280315,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, ERNEST=, Signal Boy, J. 24674, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 297650, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9578),
203769, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, GILBERT VICTOR=, Private, No. 871, The Honourable
Artillery Company, yr. _s._ of William Baglin White, of High View,
Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent; _b._ Wood Green, co. Middlesex,
11 Jan. 1893; educ. Quernmore School and Clifton College; volunteered
for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and joined the H.A.C. 4
Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept.; was in the trenches from Nov. to
Jan., and died at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 2 Feb. 1915, of
wounds received in action near Ypres, on 6 Jan. He was shot by a German
sniper while helping to bring in a wounded comrade; _unm._
[Illustration: =Gilbert V. White.=]
=WHITE, HARRY ARTHUR ALBERT=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 11354, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=WHITE, JAMES ERNEST=, Private, No. 287, 5th Battn. (London Rifle
Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of James White, of 2,
Woodside Road, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Josiah
Briscoe; _b._ London, N., 30 Sept. 1885; educ. Higher Grade
School, Wood Green, N., and Birkbeck College; was a Clerk in the Oceana
Land Co., Ltd.; joined the London Rifle Brigade on the outbreak of war
in Aug. 1914; went to France, 13 March, 1915, and was killed in action
at Zillebeke, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried at Fortuin.
White took a prominent part in many branches of Church work, was an
enthusiastic ’cellist, and led a small orchestra.
[Illustration: =James Ernest White.=]
=WHITE, LESLIE SPENSER=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent
Regt., eldest _s._ of Frank Faulder White, of Charlton Road,
Blackheath, F.R.C.S. Eng., by his wife, Eva Dalgairns, dau. of the late
Major J. D. Travers; _b._ Coventry, 21 Sept. 1891; educ. King
Henry VIII’s School there, and Framlingham College; joined the Artists
Rifles immediately on the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914; gazetted
2nd Lieut. to the Royal West Kent Regt., 27 Jan. 1915; went to France
in Oct. 1914; served as temp. 2nd Lieut. with the 2nd Royal Scots
Fusiliers in the trenches and was accidentally killed near Ypres, 15
March, 1915, by a bomb explosion, while on active service; _unm._
Buried there.
[Illustration: =Leslie S. White.=]
=WHITE, LLOYD ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9380, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHITE, LYNTON WOOLMER=, Lieut., 1st King’s Dragoon Guards,
elder _s._ of Woolmer Rudolph Donati White, of Salle Park, co.
Norfolk, and Southleigh Park, co. Hants, J.P., High Sheriff, co.
Norfolk (1914), by his wife, Edith Wittcomb, yr. dau. of George Dawes
Monck, of Hilsea, co. Hants.; _b._ Southsea, 5 May, 1886; educ.
Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, gazetted 2nd Lieut. 7 May,
1905, and promoted Lieut. 25 March, 1910. Being home on leave when
the war broke out, he was attached to the Queen’s Bays; was severely
wounded in action at the Battle of Nery, 1 Sept. 1914, during the
retreat from Mons and died at the Chateau de Baron, three days later.
He was buried at first in the Chateau grounds and afterwards removed
to the Churchyard. He _m._ at St. Mary Abbott’s, Kensington, 29
June, 1911, Dorothea, only dau. of W. R. Haughton, of Calcutta, V.D.,
M.I.C.E., formerly Engineer-in-Chief Eastern Bengal State Railway;
_s.p._
=WHITE, ROBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 9733, 3rd Battn. (Toronto
Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of the late
Robert White, Master Roscrea (Ireland) Union, by his wife, Elizabeth
(44, Dingwall Avenue, Toronto, Canada), dau. of William Proctor, of
Glashare, co. Kilkenny; _b._ Roscrea, co. Tipperary, 8 July, 1895;
educ. National School there; went to Canada in May, 1914, and was a
Sales Clerk; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian
Expeditionary Force at Toronto, about 20 Aug. 1914; left Valcartier for
England with the first contingent 9 Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury
Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France early in Feb. and
was killed in action “in the field between St. Julien and St. Jean,” 23
April, 1915, being shot through the head and killed instantly.
[Illustration: =Robert H. White.=]
=WHITE, WALTER EDWIN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7921, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Blacksmith’s Mate, M. 5496, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, WILLIAM CLEMENT=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5261),
181422, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITE, WILLIAM DARCY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19848, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WHITEFORD, PETER=, Sergt., No. 6965, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own
Cameron Highlanders, 4th _s._ of Andrew Whiteford, of Cramond,
by his wife, Hannah Lawrie, dau. of James Black, of Easter Drylaw,
Cramond; _b._ Davidson’s Mains, Cramond, 15 May, 1886; educ.
Davidson’s Mains Public School; enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders at
Edinburgh in 1904, and after a few months in Dublin served three years
in South Africa, two years in China, and two years in India, returning
to England in Jan. 1912. He obtained his discharge 1 June that year,
and became a gardener to Mr. W. R. Reid at Lauriston Castle. When war
broke out he rejoined at Inverness, and after training recruits there
for four months, was promoted Sergt., and went to France early in Dec.
He was killed while leading his platoon into action at La Bassée 25
Jan. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Peter Whiteford.=]
=WHITEHEAD, ALFRED GEORGE=, Signal Boy, J. 23867, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WHITEHEAD, CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 9373, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=WHITEHEAD, HARRY HARDING=, Private, No. 3/927, R.N.V.R. Hawke
Battn. 1st R.N. Brigade, R.N. Division, 2nd _s._ of James Dove
Whitehead, of Middleton Hall, near Pickering, Yorks, J.P., North
Riding, by his wife, Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Samuel Harding Loy,
J.P., Keldead, Pickering; _b._ Scarborough, 26 March, 1891; educ.
Repton School; qualified as an Engineer, and joined a Flying School
for the Naval Flying Corps, joining the R.N.V.R. after the outbreak of
war, in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, 29
June, 1915; _unm._ His only brother, Capt. James Loy Whitehead, is
now (1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =Harry H. Whitehead.=]
=WHITEHEAD, HENRY MONTAGUE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 2nd, Battn.
East Surrey Regt., 2nd _s._ of Henry Hammond Whitehead, of Boston
Road, Brentford, by his wife, Edith Miriam, dau. of John Cove, of
Northampton; _b._ Brentford, co. Middlesex, 16 Nov. 1890; educ.
Tonbridge School, where he was in the O.T.C.; was an Architect; joined
the Artists Rifles in 1908; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Surreys,
15 Aug. 1914; went to France Jan. 1915; attd. to the 1st Battn. South
Wales Borderers, joining the 2nd Battn. East Surreys in March, and was
killed in action at Zonnebeke, 14 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried there.
=WHITEHEAD, JAMES SCULLARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2390), 161600,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHITEHURST, CHARLEY=, Private, No. 13205, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of John William Whitehurst, of 4, Grove Lane,
Smethwick; _b._ Birmingham; educ. Dudley Road and City Road
Schools; was employed in the Ebbw Vale Steel Works; enlisted in the
Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France,
1 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy,
25 Jan. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on
or about that date. He _m._ at St. Matthew’s Church, Smethwick,
29 Sept. 1907, Emma (2, Fering Street, Corporation Road, Newport, co.
Monmouth), dau. of Robert (and Emma) Bell, and had a dau., Elsie Agnes,
_b._ 24 June, 1913.
[Illustration: =Charley Whitehurst.=]
=WHITEHURST, HAROLD=, Private, No. 1544, 1st Battn. Highland
L.I., _s._ of William Whitehurst, of 31, Cove Street, Beverley
Road, Hull; _b._ Hull, 27 Feb. 1897; educ. Trinity House School,
Hull; after leaving school was apprenticed to Messrs. Wright &
Bacon, Shipowners; joined 1st Highland L.I., 6 Aug. 1914; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle, between 11 and 18 March, 1915; _unm._ Two of
his brothers are serving in the Army: George William Whitehurst in
the N.E.R. Fusiliers (Pioneers), and Alfred Whitehurst in the 2nd
Northumbrian R.F.A.
[Illustration: =Harold Whitehurst.=]
=WHITELAW, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 9040, 2nd Battn. Durham
L.I., _s._ of Alexander Whitelaw, Foreman Carpenter with Messrs.
Currie & Co., of Leith, Ship Owners, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Adam
Stenhouse, of Leith, _b._ Leith, 22 Aug. 1880; educ. Couper Street
School there; enlisted in 1902, served for three years with the Colours
and nine years in the Reserve, and on mobilization rejoined his regt.
17 Aug. 1914. He was shot through the head by a German sniper while
helping to repair the trenches at Houplines, 30 Jan. 1915, and was
buried in the military cemetery there. He _m._ at Leith, 9 July,
1908, Jane Jackson (66, Coburg Street, Leith), dau. of Allan McCallum,
and had two sons and a dau.: Alexander, _b._ 6 Sept. 1909; Allan
McCallum, _b._ 14 March, 1913, and Susan Webster, _b._ 9 Dec.
1910.
[Illustration: =Alexander Whitelaw.=]
=WHITEWAY, THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 208492, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=WHITFIELD, THOMAS NICHOLAS=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, M. 1752, H.M.S.
Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=WHITING, CHARLES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 186224, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WHITING, FREDERICK JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 1050, 1/6th (Cyclist)
Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of John Whiting, of 73,
Surrey Road, Ipswich, by his wife, Margaret; _b._ Westerfield,
Ipswich, 10 Jan. 1893; educ. Council School and Boys’ British School
there; joined the Suffolk Cyclists, 20 March, 1912, and died in the
Military Hospital, Saxmundham, 12 May, 1915, from injuries received
through an armoured car, while cycling out with his company, near
Saxmundham; _unm._
=WHITTLE, GEORGE THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 237335, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHITTLE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 290939 Devonport, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WHYBROW, THOMAS JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9533),
106899, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WHYTE, CHARLES LEONARD LE BARON=, Chief Petty Officer, 147436,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.