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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 Ca

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