Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book. 26 March, 1904, and Capt. 29 Jan. 1910; served through the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen's medal with three clasps and King's medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, died at Boulogne, 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres; buried at St. Donat's Castle; _unm._ [Illustration: =Idris H. J. Williams.=] =WILLIAMS, JETHROE=, L.-Corpl., No. 6074, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Cabel Williams, of High Street, Cheltenham, Market Gardener; _b._ Leigh, near Cheltenham, 5 Dec. 1885; educ. there; enlisted 21 Jan. 1905; was appointed L.-Corpl. 10 Oct. 1914; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 28 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. following, of wounds received in action. He _m._ at Fulham, 22 Sept. 1906, Evelyn May (8, Station Road, Maldon, Essex), dau. of Robert Everett Coney Weston, of Bury St. Edmunds, and had a dau., Edith Josephine, _b._ 20 April, 1907. =WILLIAMS, JOHN NATHANIEL=, Private, No. 12/484, 6th (Hauraki) Auckland Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force (formerly Capt., 4th Dorsets (T.F.)), elder _s._ of Col. Sir Robert Williams, of Bridehead, Dorchester, 1st Bt., M.P., by his wife, Rosa Walker, dau. of Nathaniel Sims, of Strood Park, Horsham; _b._ London, W., 24 Jan. 1878; educ. Matfield, Kent; Eton, and New College, Oxford; was for some time in the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Dorsetshire Regt., becoming Capt., but resigned his commission and went to New Zealand in 1910. On the outbreak of war enlisted as a Private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe that day; _unm._ Major-Gen. Sir A. I. Godley, K.C.M.G., C.B., Commanding New Zealand Forces, wrote: "He was killed leading and setting a most gallant example to the men in the forefront of the Battn., and all the officers, N.C.O.'s and men of the company speak of him in the highest terms of admiration and affection. He had evidently made himself most popular with them and respected by all, and had he not fallen he would have been given a commission in this force immediately after the first action. I believe the example which he set in enlisting, and dying as he did in the ranks, has done more for this force and perhaps for the Empire than he would have done as a commissioned officer." [Illustration: =John Nathaniel Williams.=] =WILLIAMS, JOSEPH=, Chief Yeoman of Signals, R.N., No. Ch./206951, 4th _s._ of the late Edward Williams, of Hull, Chemist, by his wife, Betsy Ann, dau. of Henry Hollingsworth, of Hull, Chemist; _b._ Hull, 25 Feb. 1883; educ. Boulevard Higher Grade School, Hull, joined the Navy in Feb. 1899; served on H.M. ships, Perseus, 1905-8; Jason, 1908-10; Shannon, 1910-12; and R.F.A. Maine, 1912-14, and was studying for an examination for warrant officer when war was declared; joined H.M.S. Cressy and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Boulevard Baptist Church, Hull, 8 Sept. 1910, Agnes Mary (28, Redbourne Street, Boulevard, Hull), sister of James Albert Forgan Wighton, R.N. (lost in the action off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), and only dau. of the late James Brown Wighton, and had two children; Joseph Albert, _b._ 8 Sept. 1914; and Catherine Marian, _b._ 23 Aug. 1912. [Illustration: =Joseph Williams.=] =WILLIAMS, MERVYN JAMES=, Colour Sergt.-Major, No. 6854, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only _s._ of John Williams, of Blackrock, by his wife, Ellen Dorcas, dau. of James Watts, of Grove Avenue, Blackrock; _b._ Blackrock, co. Dublin, 21 June, 1882; educ. Booterstown School there; enlisted Jan. 1910; served in South Africa, Egypt, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 24 Aug. 1914 to 16 May, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Festubert; _unm._ [Illustration: =Mervyn J. Williams.=] =WILLIAMS, OWEN=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 6104), 297624, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WILLIAMS, SYDNEY ERNEST=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4202, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 299881, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WILLIAMS, TOM JAMES=, Private, No. 11050, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Welsh Regt., _s._ of George Williams, of Ffosyfedwen, Velindre, Henllan, Flannel Weaver, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Evans; _b._ Ffrontywann, 15 Nov. 1894; educ. National School, Velindre. He enlisted in the Welsh Regt. in Dec. 1913, was in training with the 2nd Battn. in Hampshire when the war broke out, and was soon afterwards sent out to France. There he was a driver in the transport section of his regt., till he contracted rheumatic fever, lying for some weeks in hospital at Le Havre, and then returning to England on three weeks' leave. At the appointed time he reported himself at Cardiff Barracks, and was in a few days on his way back to France again, to join the 1st Battn. He served with them for three months, and was killed in action, being shot in a bayonet charge, at Zillebeke, 25 May, 1915; _unm._ His brother, Private William Williams, is now (1916) serving with the Devons. [Illustration: =Tom J. Williams.=] =WILLIAMS, WALTER KENT, M.V.O.=, Engineer-Capt., R.N., 2nd _s._ of William Philips Williams, Journalist, some time of the South Wales Daily News, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Manoah Kent; _b._ St. Davids, co. Pembroke, 24 Oct. 1863; educ. Proprietary School, Cardiff, and Royal Naval College, Keyham, Devonport; entered the Navy as Assistant Engineer, 1 July, 1885; promoted Engineer, 2 April, 1887; Chief Engineer, 1 Aug. 1897; Engineer-Commander, 1 Aug. 1901, and Engineer-Capt., 1 Jan. 1912. While serving as Engineer in the Blanche, 1893, he landed with the Naval Brigade from H.M. ships Blanche, Swallow, and Sparrow under Commander Lindley to punish a robber chief, Fumo Omari, for various acts of treachery. The fortified strongholds at Puwani and Jongeni were stormed and captured. Capt. Williams was awarded the general Africa medal (Vitu, Aug. 1893 clasp) for these services. He was Engineer at the Royal Osborne College at the time the present Prince of Wales and his brother were students there, and for his services was awarded the M.V.O. in Oct. 1910. He afterwards served for a period ashore at Portsmouth, and on the outbreak of war was appointed on the staff of the Bulwark, and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =WILLIAMS, WALTER ROLAND=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7279, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =WILLIAMS, WILLIAM=, Private, |