Part 193
=WALTON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8670, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=WALTON, RICHARD CRAWHALL=, Lieut., 1st Battn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army; elder _s._ of Richard Walton, of 5, Croxteth Grove, Liverpool, Secretary in Liverpool Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool, and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, by his wife, Judith, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; _b._ Clifton, Bristol, 1 March, 1886; educ. Liverpool College, and passed into Sandhurst in 1905, being third on the list in that half-year’s examinations. A year later he passed out second in order of merit, with honours, and was placed first of the Cadets for the Indian Army, winning the coveted Norman medal, then presented for the first time. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 29 Aug. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 29 Nov. 1908; served his first year with the 1st Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt.; was posted to the 9th Gurkhas, 12 Nov. 1907; appointed Double Company Officer, 17 Nov. 1907, and Qr.-Mr. 18 Jan. 1914; left India with the Expeditionary Force for France on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, during the first Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914; _unm._ Lieut. Walton was an all-round sportsman, and when in garrison at Chitral engaged in big game shooting, fine specimens of markhor, oorial, tahr, black and red bear, deer and leopard, being among his trophies. He was also an expert horseman and polo player, and was considered one of the best judges of ponies on his station. He rode Mr. Lee’s Ringette, the winner of the Murree Cup at the Gharial Races in 1907.
=WAND, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R), Ch./8521, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WANDBY, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5312), S.S. 42, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WANDS, ANDREW EASTON=, L.-Corpl., No. 7689, 8th Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), attd. 1/7th Royal Scots (T.F.), _s._ of the late James Wands, of 65, Glasgow Road, Wishaw, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Easton; _b._ Wishaw, co. Lanark, 18 Aug. 1893; educ. Berryhill School there; was Craneman G.I.S.W., Wishaw; joined the 8th Highland L.I., 1908, and served five years, rejoining, 15 Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war; was attached to the 1/7th Royal Scots, and left with them for the Dardanelles 22 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the capture of the Sagir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, following; _unm._
=WARBURTON, JOHN ALFRED=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., _s._ of the late Joseph Warburton, Cooper, by his wife, Emma (117, Walter Street, Blackburn); _b._ Blackburn, 10 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Matthew’s School there; enlisted 18 March, 1901; served through the South African War, 1901–02 (Queen’s medal), after which he proceeded with his regt. to India, but later returned to South Africa, where he was stationed until the outbreak of the European War; went to France 2 Nov., came through the action at Neuve Chapelle safely, but was killed the following day, 15 March, 1915, while trying to locate a German sniper; _unm._ While in India he scored many successes in regimental competitions.
=EGERTON-WARBURTON, PIERS (PETER)=, Private, No. 903, 10th Light Horse (Western Australian) Regt., Australian Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of the late Rowland Egerton-Warburton, by his wife, Mary (Stonyhurst, Williams River, Western Australia), dau. of John M. Kail, and grandson of the late George Edward Egerton-Warburton, of St. Werburgh’s, Albany, Western Australia, sometime 51st Regt [5th _s._ of the Rev. Rowland Egerton-Warburton. of Warburton and Arley, co. Chester]; _b._ Perth, Western Australia, 13 July, 1892; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in May, and died in No. 1 General Hospital, Alexandria, 19 Aug. following, of wounds received on the 9th in the great attempt to storm the Turkish positions, when the 8th and 10th Light Horse were almost annihilated; _unm._
=WARD, ARTHUR=, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 6330, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARD, ARTHUR PERCY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 3850), 196305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARD, ARTHUR RENOLD=, Private, No. 1196, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late (--) Ward, by his wife, Eliza (126, Commercial Road, Camberwell, S.E.); _b._ Walworth, S.E., 3 Sept. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Street Board School there; joined the 2nd London Regt. about Aug. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. and died 4 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._
=WARD, BASIL MIGNOT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Essex Regt., yr. _s._ of Arthur John Hanslip Ward. V.D., D.L., Town Clerk of Harwich, and Col. 1st Suffolk and Harwich R.G.A. Vol. (which he raised and commanded 1899–1906), by his wife, Eleanor Katherine Mignot, only dau. of John Brown, of Altwood, Maidenhead; _b._ Dovercourt, co. Essex, 20 Feb. 1888; educ. The Tower School, Dovercourt; Felsted School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Essex Regt., 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut., 25 Sept. 1911, and Capt., 26 April, 1915; served in Burma, India, and Mauritius; and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried on the shore of Gallipoli, just above W. Beach. His Commanding Officer (who was himself killed a few days later) wrote: “He was such a good officer, and so much beloved by us all. It must indeed be terrible for you, but you have the consolation that he died fighting for his country, and no one could die a more noble death. He fell the first day we landed, but not before he had proved what a gallant fearless officer he was. In the Regt. we shall miss him dreadfully.” He was a Freemason, and a member of the Hanslip Ward Lodge, into which he was initiated by his father; he was also a member of the St. Nicholas Mark Lodge.
=WARD, HENRY DE COURCY=, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., 2nd _s._ of the late Commander Henry Purcell Ward, R.N., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Allan, of Springfield House, Havant, co. Hants, and grandson of Capt. Richard Ward, R.N.; _b._ Kingstown, co. Dublin, 4 July, 1862; educ. Vickerys, Southsea; entered the Navy 15 July, 1878, and became Paymaster in 1895 and Fleet Paymaster in Aug. 1903. He served on H.M. Ships Wolverine, Miranda and Rapid, Australian Station; H.M.S. Emerald, North American Station; H.M.S. Firebrand, China Station; and H.M.S. Triumph and Indomitable, Home Fleet; and was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy in Dec. 1913, being present on the latter at the action off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914. He was lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when the Cressy was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. A survivor said: “Ward managed to reach a life-buoy, which was supporting the Doctor and Chaplain. When he found he could hold on no longer without taxing the strength of the others (our Chaplain, the writer says, could not swim), he slipped off, telling the others to save themselves, and sank with a cheery good-bye to us all.” And the Chaplain wrote: “The courage of Ward, the calmness with which he faced death was typical of the bravery of the rest.” Capt. Ozanne, R.M.L.I., another of the survivors, wrote: “I hope someone has told his wife what a fine thing he did. Ward passed me swimming hard. He was splendid, letting go a life-buoy which he had hold of, as our Chaplain, who couldn’t swim, was on it, and so was the Doctor, who was looking after him. He apparently thought they would get on better without him. He is a great loss, he kept things going in a wonderful way.” Fleet Paymaster H. de C. Ward was selected as one of the Naval interpreters to escort the officers of the French Fleet during the Entente Cordiale festivities in Aug. 1906, and was also chosen when the Indomitable took the Prince of Wales (now King George V.) to Quebec for the Tercentenary Celebrations in July, 1908. He _m._ at Kilmaronaig Lodge, Connel, co. Argyle, 10 July, 1900, Emelie Chisholm, 2nd dau. of the late Staff Surgeon Richard McClymont, R.N., by his wife, Anne Constance (who _m._ 2ndly Archibald Argyll Lochnell Campbell, 13th, of Lochnell), dau. of Inspector General (of Asylums) John Francis Fitzgerald, of Glenlee Lodge, Cheltenham; _s.p._ His brothers, Paymaster-in-Chief Charles A. Ward, R.N., and Col. W. R. Ward, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, are on service.
=WARD, HENRY=, Private, No. 2010, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ co. Durham; enlisted 20 Sept. 1898; served in South Africa, 15 April, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 22 Oct. 1914; _m._
=WARD, HERBERT ALFRED=, Sergt., R.M.A., 5345, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARD, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 8066, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 1st _s._ of Stephen Ward, of Westbury, Brackley, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Merry; b. Brackley, 20 May, 1886; educ. Brackley National School; joined 2nd Oxford and Bucks, L.I., 21 Oct. 1905; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May, 1915; _unm._ Buried, Rue du Bois, near Richebourg l’Avoué.
=WARD, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 68, H Coy., 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only child of John Edward Ward, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent, employee of the South-Eastern Railway, by his wife, Kate Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Warner, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent; _b._ Ashford, 15 July, 1891; educ. Grammar School there, and on leaving secured an appointment at the Folkestone Branch of Lloyd’s Bank. After three years there he was given a special appointment at the Southsea Branch; remaining there for 13 months, he was then transferred to the Westgate Branch and from there to the head office in Lombard Street. Two days after the declaration of war (7 Aug. 1914) he joined the London Rifle Brigade, left England with it on 2 Nov. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ploegsteert, Belgium, 9 Dec., 1914; _unm._ His Company Officer, Capt. H. Macfeogh, wrote that by his death he “had lost one of the best men of his Company.” Ward had for many years been studying organ and piano, was a prize winner Trinity College, was assistant organist at Ashford Parish Church, was also a gifted accompanist on the piano and in great request at concerts. Was a choir boy at Ashford Parish Church for some years, soloist for two years until his voice broke. Resting from singing for some years, he again started by studying voice production under Mr. Fletcher of Folkestone, and later on under Mr. Franklin Clive, of London, and he developed a baritone voice of exceptional quality and power, and was seen in many provincial productions, and was heard to much advantage in the production of “The Geisha” at Portsmouth Theatre Royal by the Portsmouth Orpheus Society. In this production he played “Reggie Fairfax,” the part originally played in London by Mr. C. Hadyn Coffin. His first appearance on the concert platform was at the age of three, when he sang a little solo in a children’s operetta, and at intervals he appeared for years in many operettas and at many concerts, until his departure for the Front. He was a fine cricketer, and still holds the record for the Ashford Grammar School Eleven against club cricketers (not school cricket), viz., 168 not out, which he scored against the Ashford Drapers Cricket Club for the Grammar School in 1913. Another notable feat in his cricket career was 59 in the morning, l.b.w. out, and 59 in the afternoon, l.b.w. out, against a very strong combination Great Chart Cricket Club in 1910. His last season of cricket he played on the London grounds for the Private Banks C.C. and also for the Droits C.C. and scored up to the time of his enlistment in Aug., 9 runs short of 1,000 runs. This would have been, had he kept playing, his best season. He did not make a century in 1914 but scored 95, 98, 90 and 84, thus getting near it on four occasions. He topped the averages in all clubs he played for at some time of his cricket career, and was looked upon as a fine sporting bat by all good judges of the game.
=WARD, THOMAS LEONARD=, Private, No. 1859, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of the late Henry Walter Ward, of 34, St. Paul’s Road, Camden Town, N., for many years an optician with Adam Hilger, Stanhope Street, N.W., by his wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth, dau. of William Bartlett; _b._ London, 28 March, 1890; educ. Camden Town National School and Ditcheat Council School; went to Australia, 28 Oct. 1911; bought property in Narrogin, and farmed for himself 633 acres at Corrogin, W.A.; joined the 11th Battn. Jan. 1914; sailed for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Alexandria, 10 Aug. following, of wounds received in action at Shell Green, Anzac, on or about 5 Aug. Buried in Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria, Grave No. 1240; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “Tom’s first thought was for his comrades; he even went so far as sharing his water allowance at a time when every drop was a luxury.” Another wrote: “His fearlessness was noticeable even among ‘our set.’ He died the death he chose--one of many heroes.”
=WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1368), 194032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARDALE, CLARENCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., C. 229), S.S. 1740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARDE, BRIAN EDMUND DOUGLAS=, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Major Charles Aprilis Warde, late 7th Dragoon Guards and 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, and now 2nd in command of 15th Battn. R.F., by his wife Felicia, dau. of James Richard Alexander Douglas, of Treaty House, Hounslow, F.R.C.S.; _b._ Hounslow, 29 July, 1894; educ. at Bilton Grange, Rugby; and Lancing College, Shoreham, where he was second classic, and Captain of his house. He was intending to go to Ceylon as a planter, but on the day war was declared applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old battn., 15 Aug. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. following. After training at Dover and taking part in the defences of the fortress, he left for the Front with a draft of the 4th Battn. on 29 Dec. He served with that Battn. at Ypres, St. Eloi, and elsewhere in Flanders, until his death in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. That day he was the last officer of his company unhurt. He had helped to take three lines of the enemy’s trenches, had then fallen back to the 2nd line again, where his wounded Capt. saw him, quite calm and unconcerned, leading a handful of men down the trench. He jumped on the parapet to fire at and bomb a party of the enemy, when he fell shot through the head. An hour later he died, never having recovered consciousness, and was buried in the trench where he was shot; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He will be a great loss to us, he was always cheerful, was a very brave officer, and a real good leader of men.... He was sniped from the flank and killed dead.” Lieut. Warde was a splendid gameshot, and devoted to field sports and to nature generally. He possessed an excellent knowledge of French.
=WARDEN, ERNEST=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24984 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=WAREING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6370, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=WARLOW, THEODORE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., elder _s._ of the Rev. George Edmund Warlow, M.A., Vicar of Ledsham, South Milford, Yorkshire, by his wife, Ellen Constance, dau. of Ferdinand Gozna Eiloart; _b._ St Anne’s Wycombe, Marsh, co. Bucks, 15 March, 1895; and was educ. at Doon House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Bradfield College, where he gained an Exhibition, was a Sergt. in the O.T.C. and obtained Certificate “A.” He left Bradfield, July, 1914, and was to have gone up to University College, Oxford, the following Oct., but on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th K.O.Y.L.I., 14 Aug. 1914, he was promoted Lieut. 25 Oct. following, went to France 21 May, 1915; and died at a stationary hospital, Boulogne, 28 July, 1915, of wounds received at Hooge on the 19th, while endeavouring to bring in a wounded Corpl. Buried at Boulogne; _unm._ Major E. H. Rigg wrote: “He was a good soldier, and his loss is deeply felt by all ranks,” and 2nd Lieut. R. G. Royle: “Being in the same company, I can bear personal witness to the great esteem his soldierly abilities and his remarkably sunny disposition have engendered amongst everybody.”
=PICTON-WARLOW, WILFRED=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., and Royal Flying Corps, 7th and yst. _s._ of Col. John Picton Turbervill, formerly Picton-Warlow, of Ewenny Priory, Bridgend, Glamorgan, late Indian Staff Corps, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, yst. dau. of Sir Grenville Temple, of Stowe, 10th Bart.; _b._ Laleston House, Bridgend, 6 April, 1884; educ. Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Welsh from the Guernsey Militia, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 28 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 7 June, 1913; attached Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps as Flying officer, 14 Aug. 1913; and promoted Flight Commander, 1 May, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and on 20 Dec. 1914 left St. Omer for Dover. He was seen flying over Calais that same day, but nothing more was heard of him, and he is believed to have been drowned while crossing the Channel; _unm._
=WARNE, JAMES FELIX=, Rifleman, No. 1966, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late Charles Warne, Founder of the Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, and brother to Frederick Warne, editor of the Bristol Free Press; _b._ Old Kent Road, S.E., 5 Oct. 1886; educ. Cobourg Road Council School there; was a Clerk with Messrs. Foster, Porter & Co., Wood Street, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at Ypres, 1 April, 1915, while on observation duty; _unm._ Buried in a railway cutting near Hill 60. Capt. H. Flemming wrote: “He had done excellent work since he has been in my company.”
=WARNER, CORNWALLIS JOHN=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd _s._ of Col. Sir Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet, C.B., M.P.; formerly Lieut.-Col. and Hon. Col. commanding the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I., Lord Lieutenant co. Suffolk, by his wife, Lady Leucha Diana, née Maude, 6th dau. of Cornwallis, 1st Earl de Montalt; _b._ Highams, Woodford Green, co. Essex, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; called to the Bar, 1910, and in Dec. of that year unsuccessfully contested Salisbury as a Liberal; joined the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I. as 2nd Lieut., 25 July, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1910; resigned May, 1914, but rejoined 26 Sept. following; went to France Dec. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot say how I miss your son. He did such excellent work last spring that if he had been spared at Richebourg, as far as I am concerned, he would have commanded a company here ever since. There are a thousand and one jobs I would have given him to do, he was such a very useful and reliable officer in so many ways.”
=WARNER, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 8649, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Frederick Neville Warner, of Bentfield End, Stansted, co. Essex, Removal Packer, by his wife, Caroline Amelia, dau. of Henry Jarvis; _b._ Bethnal Green, London, 19 Jan. 1891; educ. London Council School; was a Cycle Fitter by trade; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 17 March, 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action 25 Oct. 1914; _unm._
=WARNER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B., 207043, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARNER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4383), S.S. 103360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, ARTHUR ERNEST=, A.B., J. 8681, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 5689), 214567 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, MARK=, L.-Corpl., G. 153, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 8 Feb. 1915.
=WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (Coastguard), 204414 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=WARREN, JAMES PERCY SOLTAU=, Corpl., No. 511, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of the late William Warren, of Melbourne, Physician and Surgeon, by his wife, Charlotte Matilda (9, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, W.), dau of Henry Soltau, of Plymouth, Barrister; _b._ Melbourne, Australia, 23 May, 1883; educ. Scotch College there; was a Grazier; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; left Australia in Sept. 1914 for training in Egypt, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, during the landing there. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Carter, wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and we could ill afford to lose him. He was killed in our successful attempt to take the gun to the heights north of Gaba Tepe.” He _m._ at Kew, Melbourne, 19 Jan. 1909, Stella May (Bull Plains Station, Corowa, New South Wales), dau. of the late Edward James Rand, of Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, and had three children: Cecil, _b._ 10 Nov. 1909; and Audrey and May (twins), _b._ 9 Feb. 1912.
=WARREN, JOHN ALEXANDER=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16653, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=WARREN, PATRICK=, Private, No. 11041, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Killarney, co. Kerry; enlisted 14 Sept. 1914, aged 30; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 12 March, 1915. Buried at Le Touret and the spot marked by a cross.