Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookty's 12th Regt.; _b._ Teddington, co. Middlesex, 23 June, 1887; educ. J. Williams-White's School for the Navy, Bognor, and H.M.S. Britannia; became Midshipman, 30 Jan. 1904; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 March, 1907, and Lieut. 30 Jan. 1909, went to India in H.M.S. Argyll, one of the cruisers which escorted the King Emperor on the occasion of his visit to India after his Coronation; served as signal Lieut. to Commodore R. Y. Tyrwhitt, C.B., of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, on the outbreak of war, and accompanied him when he transferred his flag to the Arethusa two days before the Battle off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914, in which engagement he was killed. Commodore Tyrwhitt in his Despatch, said: "Lieut. Eric W. P. Westmacott (Signal Officer) was killed at my side during this action. I cannot refrain from adding that he carried out his duties calmly and collectedly, and was of the greatest assistance to me." And he wrote to Mrs. Westmacott: "I can't tell you how sorry I am and how splendid he was. He was standing next me on the bridge, and was so jolly and cheerful under a terrific fire. He had just said, 'By Jove, they have got our range,' which was true as we were in a regular inferno at the time, when he was hit ... his death being instantaneous." Capt. Cecil Lambert, Fourth Sea Lord, wrote: "By the death of your husband the Service has lost a very gallant and valuable officer, and I have lost a personal friend, for whom I had a sincere admiration and affection." Lieut. Westmacott was a fine hockey player, and in three successive years represented the Navy in their annual match with the Army. He _m._ at St. Andrew's Church, Heybridge, Essex, 6 Aug. 1912, Dorothy, eldest dau. of Edmund Ernest Bentall, of The Towers, Heybridge, and had a son, Innes Bentall, _b._ 20 Sept. 1913. His brother, Richard Innes Edgell Westmacott, Sergt. 1st Scots Guards, was killed in action in France, 25 Jan. 1915. [Illustration: =Eric W. P. Westmacott.=] =WESTMACOTT, SPENCER RUSCOMBE=, Lieut., Prince of Wales' Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th _s._ of the Rev. Walter Westmacott, Vicar of Probus and Hon. Canon of Truro, by his wife, Helen Maria Maud, dau. of John Austin Madeley, of Wood Hall, Salop, J.P.; _b._ 29 Jan. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leinsters, 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1912; seconded for "Grass Farm" work in India, 5 Nov. 1913, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ His five brothers are (1916) or have been on active service. 2nd Lieut. John L. Westmacott, R.E., wounded in head, lost an eye in France, April, 1915; 2nd Lieut. Horatio Westmacott, R.N., H.M.S. Agincourt; 2nd Lieut. Rupert W. Westmacott, enlisted in New Zealand Auckland Contingent, got his commission in Gallipoli, where he lost his left leg. 2nd Lieut. Peter G. Westmacott, joined 4th D.C.L.I., and afterwards exchanged into 31st Punjabis; 2nd Lieut. Wilfred A. Westmacott, 9th West Yorks, invalided home from Gallipoli with enteric, has returned to duty. =WESTON, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3928), 212186, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WESTON, GEORGE EDWARD=, Sergt.-Major, No. 851, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Samuel Weston, of 3, East Street, Oadby, Leicestershire, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Folwell; _b._ Wigston, co. Leicester, 15 March, 1873; educ. Evington School, co. Leicester; enlisted 2nd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. June 1889, and served 21 years with the Colours, rising to the rank of Sergt.; went to Australia, Aug. 1910, where he was working on Sheep Farm; volunteered on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, being appointed Sergt.-Major; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 10 May, 1915 following. During the period he was in the West Yorks. he served in Ireland, China, India and South Africa, altogether serving 21 years, finishing with a life pension. [Illustration: =George Edward Weston.=] =WESTON, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 8/1103, 14th Otago Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of John Weston, Carpenter; _b._ Wellington, New Zealand, 6 April, 1894; educ. there, was connected with the Wellington Boys' Institute; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, was for some time in the 5th Wellington Battn., but was later transferred to the 14th Otago Infantry; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ =WESTWOOD, ALEXANDER CLEGHORN=, Lieut., 1/7th (Fife) Battn. The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of Alexander Westwood, of Linley, Cupar, J.P., Bookseller and Publisher, by his wife, Helen Ramsay, dau. of Alexander Cleghorn; _b._ Cupar, 15 May, 1894; educ. Bell-Baxter School, Cupar, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and was associated with his father in business. At college he was an enthusiastic member of the Cadet Corps, and joined the Cupar Coy. of the 7th Battn. Black Watch in May, 1911. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. Oct. 1914. During the whole of his three years service in the ranks he was a member of the machine-gun section, and in May 1915, Lieut. Westwood was appointed machine-gun officer of his battn. He was killed in action by shell fire, while holding trenches captured from the Germans at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. H. M. Allen, D.S.O., Officer Commanding the 1/7th Black Watch, wrote to his father: "On my own behalf I should like to testify to the extremely high opinion in which your son was held by his brother officers and by the men. He had rendered invaluable service as machine-gun officer, and, both as an officer and a comrade, his loss will be severely felt by us all. It will be some consolation to you to know that his death was instantaneous and painless, and that he met it with the greatest courage, nobly doing his duty in a manner worthy of the best traditions of the British Army." Lieut. Westwood was a keen sportsman, and took part in the matches of the local hockey club whenever business allowed him, playing in not a few Association fixtures. While training at Kinghorn he played Rugby for the garrison as well as Soccer for E Coy. He was a keen motor-cyclist; while another hobby was that of a poultry farmer, an interest which led him to act for some time as Joint Secretary of the Cupar Ornithological Society. [Illustration: =Alexander C. Westwood.=] =WESTWOOD, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12264, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WETTON, HENRY=, Band-Sergt., No. 9133, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of the late Thomas Allen Wetton; _b._ Hounslow, co. Middlesex, 3 April, 1889; educ. Spring Grove, Isleworth; enliste |