Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhead boy and capt. of the school XI, and afterwards captained Crowborough Football Club and held the Regimental Cross Country Championship. He also took a great interest in the Boy Scout movement and was Scoutmaster of the 1st Crowborough Coy. He _m._ at Withyham St. John, 21 Sept. 1914, Marjorie Ursula (Crowborough House, Crowborough), dau. of the late Thomas Warmington, Headmaster of Sir Henry Fermor's School, Crowborough; _s.p._ =WELHAM, JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5330A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLER, CHARLES GEORGE=, Officer's Cook, 1st Class, L. 837, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLER, EDWARD JOHN=, Corpl., No. 8/124, North Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Edward Weller; _b._ Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Ardgowan School. He was a member of the New Zealand Territorial Force, and when the war broke out was one of the first to volunteer, and left with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ Corpl. Weller was a good shot and won the markman's badge. [Illustration: =Edward John Weller.=] =WELLER, JACK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2414), 181557, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLS, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7240), S.S. 102191, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLS, ERNEST MAURICE=, Private, No. 8131, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd _s._ of Daniel Wells, of Whetstone, co. Leicester, Hosiery Hand, by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Joseph Wale; _b._ Whetstone aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1888; educ. National School there; was a Shore Hand; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 29 Oct. 1908; went to France, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in the Cemetery there. He _m._ at Blaby Baptist Church, 25 Dec. 1912, Annie E. (Auburn Road, Blaby, Leicester), dau. of William Sabin, of Blaby, and had a daughter, Annie Wells, _b._ 20 Dec. 1913. [Illustration: =Ernest Maurice Wells.=] =WELLS, FRANCIS=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope.; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WELLS, FREDERICK PENNSON=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./13273, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WELLS, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111410, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLS, HARRY STEPHEN=, Telegraphist, J. 8634, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLS, JOHN DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 6438, 3rd. Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of the late John Wells, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of George Edward Meacock; _b._ Clerkenwell, 12 Jan. 1884; enlisted 13 Dec. 1905, and was killed in action at St. Julien, during the Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Eastern Cemetery at Ypres. He _m._ at St. Paul's, Newington, S.E., 24 Dec. 1911, Rose (51, Meadow Road, Clapham Road, S.W.), dau. of Frederick Brazier Smith, and had two children: Jack Douglas, _b._ 11 Nov. 1914, and Rose Kitty, _b._ 28 Dec. 1912. [Illustration: =John Douglas Wells.=] =WELLS, JOHN THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1155), 140773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELLS, WILLIAM APPLEYARD=, Corpl. of Horse, No. 1385, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), _s._ of William Appleyard Wells, of Grasmere, Fairbolt Road, Stamford Hill, Merchant, by his wife, Annie Matilda, dau. of Henry Scott; _b._ Tottenham, N., 21 Aug. 1890; educ. Cowper Street, City Road; enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards, 30 Nov. 1909, was promoted Corpl. Sept. 1914; served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Verbuden Molen, Flanders, 6 Nov. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =William Appleyard Wells.=] =WELLS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1914), 160507, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELSFORD, ARTHUR HADDEN=, Private, No. 974, Honourable Artillery Coy., 3rd and yst. _s._ of the late Richard Sherring Welsford, of 6, The Orchard, Blackheath, Coffee Planter in Ceylon, by his wife, Jane Elizabeth (The Cottage, Semaphore Road, Guildford), dau. of the late James Alexander Hadden, of Bittacy House, Mill Hill, Hendon; _b._ Blackheath, London, S.E., 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Blackheath School, and St. Dunstan's, Catford; was a clerk in the office of Messrs. G. W. Dawes & Co. 5, Lothbury, E.C.; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. the day war was declared, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in the trenches in Flanders, 2 June, 1915, while repairing some wire on a parapet for which work he had volunteered; _unm._ He was buried in the cemetery of the Elsenwalla Château, near Dickebusch. [Illustration: =Arthur Hadden Welsford.=] =WELSH, DAVID FERGUSON=, Engine Room Artificer, R.N.R., 1198 E.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WELTON, WILLIAM JOBSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2722), 283951, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WENDOVER, ALBERT EDWARD CHARLES ROBERT WYNN-CARRINGTON=, Viscount, 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), only _s._ and heir of Charles Robert, 1st Marquis of Lincolnshire, K.G., joint Lord Great Chamberlain of England, by his wife, the Hon. Cecilia Margaret, née Harbord, Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. Queen Alexandra, eldest dau. of Charles, 5th Baron Suffield, K.C.B.; _b._ London, 24 April, 1895 (H.M. King Edward VII., sponsor); educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was mortally wounded, 13 May, 1915, in the charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade (The Blues, the 10th Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry), near Hooge, during the Second Battle of Ypres, and died in hospital at Boulogne on the 19th; _unm._ Buried in Moulsoe Churchyard, Bucks. =WENHAM, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111369, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WEST, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3964, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WEST, FREDERICK=, L.-Corpl., S./6056, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 Nov. 1914. =WEST, FREDERICK=, Private, G. 4447, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Frederick West, of Bishops Hall Lodge, Romford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 9 May, 1915. =WEST, GEORGE=, Private, No. 13792, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., elder _s._ of John George West, of Old Bolingbroke, Spilsby, co. Lincoln, Labourer, by his wife, Martha (who died 8 June, two days after her son), dau. of Matthew Ward; _b._ Old Bolingbroke aforesaid, 31 Oct. 1893; educ. Village School there; enlisted Nov. 1914; went to France, 30 April, 1915, arriving at the Infantry Base, on Sunday, 2 May, and soon afterward |