Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhis country, of which he carried out to the last." [Illustration: =James Robert Watts.=] =WATTS, VICTOR KERRIDGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9418), 203441, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WAUGH, DAVID=, Private, No. 9246, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); _s._ of Thomas Waugh, of 2, Salisbury Square, Edinburgh; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Voorstraat, 28 March, 1915. =WAUD, LIONEL DOUGLAS=, Lieut., D Coy., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 2nd _s._ of Major Williams Henry Waud, late Royal Fusiliers, by his wife, Denise Caroline (sister of Baroness de la Bori de la Batut), dau. of the late Charles Maire, of Mantoche Haute Farm, France, and niece and adopted dau. of Pierre Francois, 1st Count Maire; _b._ Cranleigh Court, Guildford, 5 June, 1895; educ. at The Army School, Holyport (Maidenhead), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he passed out first and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Lancashires, 8 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914. He joined his regt. on the 19th and went with it to France on the 27th of that month; served through the subsequent fighting on the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action near Armentières, 8 Nov. 1914, being buried in Le Gheer Road, Ploegsteert Wood. Lieut. Waud was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct at Le Gheer. Writing to Major Waud, Capt. Melville Richards, of the 1st East Lancashires, said: "His only fault was he would take risks. He was too tall for the trenches, and wouldn't trouble to stoop. He was very brave, and his action--which I remember well--of running along knocking down the rifles of his men, to make them fire low, was one of the finest things I have seen out here." It happened that a Morning Post correspondent, some time after the incident referred to, was able to get a description of the circumstances from a German officer who was wounded on that occasion. It happened at Le Gheer. Respecting the assault made by the Guard on the English lines (wrote the correspondent) here is what I was told by one who took part in the action: "Towards evening we were ordered to advance. We marched forward without taking cover, confident enough, because not a shot came from the British trench. We thought it had been abandoned after the terrible bombardment to which it had been subjected all day long. Shouting 'Hurrah,' we rushed forward to seize it, but we had not gone more than 100 metres before our whole front is stricken down by a volley from a point much nearer than the trench we had been shelling and in addition to this terrible infantry fire the British quick-firing guns are brought into play, and simply mow our men down. We had been shelling an unoccupied trench, and had done no damage to the place where the enemy actually was hidden. Hence it is not surprising that our 'assault' should have proved to be--for us--a veritable massacre." It was here that the late Lieut. Waud distinguished himself. When the mitrailleuse fire from the German attack began and there was a momentary loss of fire-control of his own company, Lieut. Waud, to regain control, sprang from the trenches, and ran in front of them, with the flat of his sword, struck down the men's rifles, and so prevented the Germans finding out where the trenches really were. A brother officer wrote that his men "trusted him as a good and a brave leader," adding: "He and I held an advanced trench before his end, and though he was younger than myself, I can say he was a great moral support to me. In conversation on the day of his death, he told me he was prepared to give the utmost for his Country, and that his one regret if that were required was that it would be a great shock to his parents." He represented the Royal Military College in revolver shooting, for which he held the record score. He also represented Sandhurst in the bayonet competition at the Royal Military Tournament at Olympia, for which he obtained third prize. [Illustration: =Lionel Douglas Waud.=] =WAUDLEY, HARRY=, Driver, No. T/3/026409, Army Service Corps, _s._ of John Waudley, Ganger Platelayer on Hull and Barnsley Railway, by his wife, (--), dau. of Isaac Hornby, Roos, Holderness; _b._ Preston-in-Holderness, 26 June, 1891; educ. Anlaby National School, Hull; was a Farm Labourer with Mr. Richardson, Swanland; enlisted in the A.S.C., 12 Oct. 1914; went to Egypt in March, and died in No. 15 General Hospital, Alexandria, 30 June, 1915, of disease contracted while on active service; _unm._ Buried in Chatby Cemetery there (Grave No. 1125). =WAY, FRANCIS MAXWELL=, Trooper, No. 7/772, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of George Edward Way, of Christchurch, New Zealand, F.P.A.N.Z., F.I.A.N.Z., by his wife, Emma Kate, dau. of the late Richard James Strachan Harman, one of the founders of, and for some years Deputy Superintendent of, Canterbury Province, and nephew of the Rev. John Pearce Way, D.D., late Headmaster of Rossall, and for two years stroke of the Oxford eight; _b._ Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 Dec. 1895; educ. Christ's College there, and then engaged in farming pursuits, first for eighteen months in the Back Blocks, Kaitieke, King Country, and then for eight months on Mount Torlesse Sheep Station, Canterbury, where he was when war broke out. He immediately enlisted, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, 15 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, June, 1915, and died on Anzac Beach, 8 Aug. 1915, of machine gun wounds received in action on Bauchop's Ridge, Gallipoli; _unm._ [Illustration: =Francis Maxwell Way.=] =WAYTH, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Private, No. 2342, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F), only _s._ of the late Edward Wayth, Mining Engineer, by his wife, Beatrice Elizabeth (now wife of Edward Steeles, of 54, Oxford Road, Harrow), dau. of James Spinks; _b._ Stoke Newington, N., 3 April, 1896; educ. Greenhill Council School, Harrow, gained a certificate for the London School of Economics and Political Science on "The Law of Carriage of Railway"; was a Clerk in the Great Northern Railway at King's Cross; joined the Territorial Force after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote: "I can assure you he was liked by all and was a good soldier." [Illustration: =Sidney Alfred Wayth.=] =WAYLING, THOMAS=, Private, No. G. 1902, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 March, 1915. =WEAKE, ERNEST ALBERT=, Private, No. 8340, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, Le Mans, France, 10 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action; _unm._ =WEARMOUTH, ISAAC NORMAN=, Private, No. 8434, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _ |