Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookd in the 2nd Middlesex, 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March. 1915; _unm._ =WHARTON, HAROLD=, Private, No. 9696, St. John's Ambulance Brigade, R.N.R., _s._ of Ernest Wharton, of 4, Springfield Terrace, Crumlin, Dublin, Ordnance Surveyor, by his wife, Susannah, dau. of Richard Pughe; _b._ Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 23 Sept. 1894; educ. Holy Trinity (Nat. School), Cork; was Lieut. in the 15th Coy. Boys' Brigade, Dublin, and joined the St. John's Ambulance Brigade in Oct. 1913. On the 5th Oct. 1914 he was appointed to H.M. hospital ship Munich (sailing between Southampton and Calais) as Sick Bay Attendant. He was transferred to H.M.S. Bayano on 28 Dec. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed, 11 March, 1915. [Illustration: =Harold Wharton.=] =WHARTON, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHATLEY=, FRANK, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142041 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHATLEY, SIDNEY JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8919, 1st Coy. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of George Robert Whatley, Attendant Norfolk County Asylum, Thorpe, Norwich, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late Robart Carver, Yelverton, Norfolk; _b._ Postwick, Norwich, 6 Nov. 1892; educ. Thorpe St. Andrew's School there; enlisted at Norwich, 13 June, 1910, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, being shot through the head; _unm._ [Illustration: =Sidney John Whatley.=] =WHEAT, GEORGE ALFRED=, Signalman, 239001, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHEATLEY, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4402), S.S. 103386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WHEELER, CLIFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 982), 186074, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WHEELER, LLOYD CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9442 (R.F.R., I.C. 81), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WHEELER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8118 (R.F.R., I.C. 29), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WHEELER, WILLIAM JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8638, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of William John Wheeler, by his wife, Maria; _b._ Kingston-on-Thames, 12 July, 1880; educ. Public School there; was a House Decorator; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 Oct. 1903; served at Glencorse and in India; went to France, 26 Aug., and was killed in action at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; being buried there. He _m._ at Kingston, 19 Oct. 1908, Charlotte Madge (18, Royal Oak Road, Woking), 2nd dau. of Arthur Hillier; _s.p._ =WHELAN, BERNARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9861), S.S. 107270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHENNELL, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7812), S.S. 103273, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHETLOR, ARTHUR CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6180), 214591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHICHELLO, RICHARD WILLIAM=, Sergt., R.M.A. 7928, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHICHER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1521), 206022, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WHILES, SIDNEY HERBERT=, Rifleman, No. 1886, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Herbert Whiles, of 70, Northcote Road, Walthamstow, late Private, No. 6824, Army Service Corps (served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was discharged April 1916, owing to injury to eye), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steuber; _b._ Leytonstone, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Forest Road Council School, Walthamstow, and Walthamstow Higher Elementary School, at both of which he gained prizes for mathematics, and also showed proficiency in Art and Divinity; became a clerk in the National Amalgamated Insurance Society; joined the Rangers, Jan. 1914, and volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; went to France with the first draft for his battn. which formed part of the 11th Brigade (4th Division), and was killed in action near the village of Fortuin during the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April; _unm._ Buried at Fortuin. His Commander wrote: That he was a gallant soldier throughout and that he personally regretted his loss, as he had frequently accompanied the officer on billet finding expeditions, in which his knowledge of French enabled him to act as interpreter. A brass plate to his memory was placed in the church of St. Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow (where he was a chorister for eight years), by his old comrades. [Illustration: =Sidney Herbert Whiles.=] =WHISKIN, ERNEST CHARLES=, Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 16th (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of the late Charles Frederick Whiskin, by his wife, Susanna Agnes; _b._ Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 13 May, 1870, and educated there. He joined the Queen's Westminster Rifles in 1892, and in 1908, when the Territorial Force was formed, he continued his service in the same regt. Holding an important position at Messrs. Jas. Shoolbred & Co., Ltd., he was for many years a Sergt. in the firm's Company, which rank he held when the Battn. left for France on 1 Nov. 1914. His was the first company to take over a fire trench on the 14th of that month, when they relieved B Coy. of the East Yorkshires at Burnt-out Farm, near Gris Pot, he being at the time No. 1 Platoon Sergt. He was promoted to Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, Flanders, 3 May following. C.Q.M.S. Whiskin had the Volunteer Long Service medal, and received mention by his Colonel for good service in France; he was a good shot, and was held in high esteem by his officers, brother N.C.Os. and men. He _m._ at St. Pancras, Marylebone Road, London, 6 Sept. 1902, Annie Ethel (Bancroft, Powys Lane, Palmer's Green, N.), dau. of Henry Barham, of Hitchin, and had two daughters: Agnes Nora, _b._ 19 July, 1903; and Winifred Ethel, _b._ 30 May, 1906. [Illustration: =Ernest Charles Whiskin.=] =WHITAKER, CHARLES=, A.B., 239469, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WHITAKER, HAROLD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._ of Arthur Whitaker, of 52, Cadogan Square, S.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Charles Wilkin; _b._ London, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. Westgate-on-Sea (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey), Eton (Mr. E. Impey's House), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (from which he passed out first of the Infantry candidates of his term in 1904); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Rifle Brigade, 4 June, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 15 Sept. 1907, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1913; served in Egypt, the Sudan and India, was Assistant Provost Marshal of the Delhi Durbar, |