Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookched the base in a very weak condition. He died in Netley Hospital, 8 May, 1915, and was buried in Ilford Cemetery; _unm._ A Memorial Tablet was placed in St. Stephen's Church, Coleman Street, where he was formerly a chorister, with the following inscription: "This tablet is erected in affectionate memory of T. Edwin Wadsworth, by the staff of Samuel Montagu & Co., of 60, Old Broad Street, to whom he had become endeared by his winsome ways and eager and faithful discharge of daily duties. One of the youngest in the ranks of the London Rifle Brigade, he responded instantly to the call of his King and Country, endured with fortitude the rigours of the winter campaign in Flanders, and whilst repelling an attack of the enemy on 27 April, 1915, received wounds which proved mortal. Fragile in frame, his body proved unequal to retain his brave young spirit, which returned to Him who gave it. He finished his earthly course 8 May, 1915, within a brief span of 19 years and 2 months, and now awaits another Trumpet Call. 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' Jno. XV. 13." [Illustration: =Thomas E. Wadsworth.=] =WAGLAND, ISAAC WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3885), 186631, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WAGSTAFF, ALFRED=, Private, No. 114, 6/2, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of William Wagstaff, of Thorpe, near Thrapston, Northampton, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of Kidman Giddings, of Long Stow, Cambs.; _b._ Thorpe, co. Northants, 14 Sept. 1891; educ. Lilford School, near Oundle; worked in copper sheds on L. & N.W.R. at Birmingham; enlisted, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 28 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 30 Sept. 1915; _unm._ His four brothers, Samuel, William, Albert Kidman, and Jack, and a nephew, Reginald R. Wagstaff, are (1916) all on active service. [Illustration: =Alfred Wagstaff.=] =WAITE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 1542), 169682, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WAITT, GEORGE GREENHILL=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27506 (Devonport), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WAKEFIELD, ARTHUR JAMES=, Private, No. 11319, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., _s._ of Walter John Wakefield, of 2, Eleanor's Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Robert Handcock; _b._ Wincolmlee, Hull, 22 Nov. 1890; educ. Lincoln Street School; was an oilmiller in the employ of Messrs. Chambers & Fargus; enlisted in the East Yorks after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 27 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He _m._ at Hull, 1 Oct. 1910, Maria (2, Eleanor's Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull), dau. of Edward Scott, and had two children: Lily, _b._ 2 March, 1912; and Lottie, _b._ 4 April, 1914. [Illustration: =Arthur J. Wakefield.=] =WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen's College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; _b._ Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Oxfordshire L.I. 22 Jan. 1900, serving with them till Dec. 1904, and the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 5 Jan. 1905, serving till 4 Jan. 1908. On the outbreak of war he resigned his post at Whitechapel and joined the 7th London Regt.; went to France, 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 7 May, following; _unm._ Buried at Bethune. [Illustration: =John Binham Wakelin.=] =WAKEMAN, EDWARD OFFLEY ROUSE=, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, yr. _s._ of Sir Offley Wakeman, of Yeaton Peverey, Shrewsbury, and Rorrington Lodge, Chirbury, Shropshire, 3rd Bart., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, 11th Bart.; _b._ Downton Hall, near Ludlow, 15 Jan. 1889; educ. Eton, and St. John's College, Oxford (B.A. 1912); was employed by the University in agricultural research and afterwards by the Board of Agriculture as Special Investigator, which position he resigned to join the Guards in Dec. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Jan. 1915; went to France in April and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; _unm._ He was buried on the field of battle near Richebourg l'Avoué. His Commanding Officer wrote: "He had been with us a short time but amply long enough for us and his company to realise that in him we have lost a man and a gallant officer, and a good comrade. He was killed in the way we all hope to be killed (if it is willed that we are to be), that is gallantly leading men of the Brigade of Guards." Lieut. Wakeman was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916]. [Illustration: =Edward O. R. Wakeman.=] =WAKINSHAW, JAMES WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 51464, Royal Engineers, 3rd _s._ of James Wood Wakinshaw, of Wolsingham, Publican, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Clark, of Whitton Park, co. Durham; _b._ Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 31 March, 1891; educ. National School there; was employed at Pickersgill's Yard, Sunderland, and resided at 43, Wear Street, Southwick, and had been for five years a member of the Durham Territorial R.G.A.; enlisted 10 Sept. 1914, for the period of the war; trained at Chatham and in Ireland; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and died 15 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action at Suvla Bay; _unm._ Wakinshaw was a good oarsman, winning many prizes, including the Molly Pratt Cup, four tankards, four medals, etc. [Illustration: =James W. Wakinshaw.=] =WALBURN, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1637, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of William Walburn, of 3, Portland Terrace, Redcar, co. Yorks, retired Hotel Proprietor, by his wife, Alice Helen, dau. of the late John Davison, of Redcar; _b._ Crakehall, near Bedale, co. York, 7 Aug. 1881; educ. Kirkleatham Private School; went to Australia in Oct. 1914, following a severe illness, and on his arrival found his health so much improved that he was able to join the Commonwealth E.F. at Sydney, 15 Dec. 1914; left Sydney for Egypt the following Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and in every engagement with his regt. till 3 Aug. when he was seriously wounded in the great charge at Lone Pine Ridge; and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, three days after admission, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery there. He _m._ at Redcar Parish Church, 23 Sept. 1903, Annie, dau. of the late William McNaughton, and had a son, William Cecil, _b._ 29 Jan. 1909. [Illustration: =William A. Walburn.=] =WALDECK, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1506), 185963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in |