Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookpt. 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. =WATERS, WILLIAM DENNE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only _s._ and surviving child of William Denne Waters, of Clarence House, Walmer, co. Kent, by his wife, dau. of the late George William Gill, of Rochester; _b._ 1 Aug. 1892; educ. Sir Roger Manwood's School, Sandwich, where he was in the O.T.C., and having passed the Entrance Examination for the Army in June 1914, was gazetted to a 2nd Lieutenancy 15 Aug. of the same year. He was sent to France in Jan. 1915, and attd. to the 1st Battn. of the same regt., being seriously wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915. An officer of his regt., who wrote regretting his death, in describing the circumstances said: "He was in my old Company, which was ordered to charge a breastwork, and he was up and off, leading his men as he always did, but the whole lot were practically mown down by maxims." Lieut. Waters died of his wounds the same night, and was buried in the Cemetery at Estaires; _unm._ [Illustration: =William Denne Waters.=] =WATERS, WILLIAM LESLIE=, Lc.-Corpl., No. 10960, Machine-Gun Section, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of Arthur Waters, of 25, Mill Hill Road, Acton, W., formerly of Herstmonceaux, co. Sussex, by his wife, Kate Emma, dau. of Ralph Joanes, of Brighton; _b._ Preston Park, Brighton, 23 Nov. 1896; educ. Stanford Road School there and Hugh Myddelton Higher Grade School, Clerkenwell; enlisted, 15 Aug. 1914; was promoted L |