Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookkilled in action at Voorstraat, 30 Jan. 1915. =WILLIAMSON, ROBERT HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 118th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, only surv. _s._ of Dr. George Williamson, of 256, Union Street, Aberdeen, by his wife, Constance, dau. of A. H. Gunn; _b._ Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. Glenalmond, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (City of Aberdeen) Battery, 1st Highland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), June, 1911, and promoted Lieut. ... June, 1913. After being attd. for a year to a Regular Battery of Field Artillery, he gained a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery at the Military Competitive Examination in April, 1914, and was gazetted to the 118th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., 10 June following. He left for France early in Nov. 1914, and died in the Allied Force Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Dec. 1914, of wounds received at Fauquissart, near Laventie, on the 6th, while making a sketch of the enemy's position for his battery from an advanced observation post in a ruined church tower; _unm._ Buried Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen. The commanding officer, 8th Brigade of Heavy Artillery, in which he served, wrote: "I had a great personal liking for him and thought very highly of him, both professionally and as regards his general disposition and demeanour with his other brother officers and the men, who all liked him;" and the officer commanding his battery wrote: "I shall never forget your boy, either for his own personal qualities or for what he had done for the battery." [Illustration: =Robert H. Williamson.=] =WILLINGALE, SIDNEY GEORGE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 197386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILLIS, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12561, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WILLIS, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3672), 160183, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILLIS, WILLIAM BRIAN DE LAVAL=, Corpl., No. 12289, 3rd Auckland Regt. (Countess of Ranfurly's Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of the Ven. William Newcombe de Laval Willis, formerly for 35 years Vicar of Cambridge and Archdeacon of Waikato, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary Agnes, dau. of the late G. H. Clarke, of Micheldever, Hants, England; _b._ the Vicarage, Cambridge, New Zealand, 17 May, 1888; educ. the Cambridge District High School and St. John's Collegiate School, Auckland; entered the Survey Department of the New Zealand Government in Feb. 1906. When war broke out in Aug. 1914, he obtained leave to temporarily resign his post and enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Auckland Regt., of which he was immediately made Corpl. He left New Zealand with the First Expeditionary Force 16 Oct. 1914, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at Gaba Tepe on April 25 and for 10 days was in the thick of the fight. On May 5 when re-embarking with 400 others for Cape Helles he was shot in the lungs. After considerable delay he reached Alexandria on 10 May, but died at the Deaconess Hospital there two days later; _unm._ He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Alexandria. His Colonel (Plugge) was near him when wounded, and helped temporarily to dress his wounds. Writing subsequently, he described him as "an ideal soldier, and as plucky as could be," and said also that "he had done magnificent work." One of his comrades wrote: "You would feel proud if you could hear the way all his men spoke of him, and they all said the same." The Prime Minister of New Zealand writing as Minister of Lands said, "As an officer of the Lands and Survey Department he showed the greatest promise, and his assiduity to his responsible duties occasions a great loss not only to the Public Service, but also to the Dominion." The Under-Secretary wrote also "His record in the Department was of the highest." In the district in which he was last engaged in survey work, a public movement was made, and a memorial brass erected in the Manganui Hospital, and a number of beds attached to the Memorial. [Illustration: =W. B. De Laval Willis.=] =WILLS, GEORGE EDWARD LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11282, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =EARDLEY-WILMOT, FREDERICK LAWRENCE=, Lieut., Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I., only _s._ of Col. Arthur Eardley-Wilmot, of Westernlea, Westward Ho! and Hales Hall, Cheadle, co. Staffordshire, late R.F.A., by his wife, Mary Blanche, only dau. of Clement Thomas Sneyd-Kynnersley, of Loxley Park, and Highfields, co. Stafford, and grandson of Major-Gen. Frederick Marrow Eardley-Wilmot, R.A. [2nd son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Bart.]; _b._ Portsmouth, 25 Feb. 1895; educ. Cheltenham and Toronto University (Oct. 1913 to Aug. 1914); volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted Lieut., P.P.C.L.I. 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; was appointed Machine Gun Officer, Feb.; went to France when his regt. joined the 20th Brigade (27th Division), and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi, 18 March, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =F. L. Eardley-Wilmot.=] =WILMSHURST, WILLIAM JESSE=, Driver, No. 826, 1/3rd Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Jesse Wilmshurst, of 15, Standen Street, St. John's, Tunbridge Wells, Engine Steerer for Kelsey's, brewers, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Charles Hallett; _b._ Tunbridge Wells, 3 Sept. 1895; educ. at St. John's Boys' School there; was working at Kelsey's, brewers, when mobilised; joined the Kent (Fortress) R.E. Oct. 1911; left England for the Dardanelles, and was drowned on H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915, when that ship was sunk in the Ægean Sea; _unm._ Major Ruston, himself saved from the ship, wrote: "The whole event was so sudden and so unexpected, and the time the Hythe remained afloat after the collision was so short, that it is practically impossible to say what happened to individual men. Many of the drivers must have been injured in the collision, as the other vessel struck their part of our vessel, and brought down our foremast.... From what I know of the drivers, and your son in particular, I am sure he died bravely." His brother, Albert Edward Wilmshurst, was also on the Hythe, but was rescued. [Illustration: =William Jesse Wilmshurst.=] =WILSON, ALBERT PATTERSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6304), 224462, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =WILSON, ALLAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9740), 205388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WILSON, DOUGLAS HENRY VERNON=, Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. _s._ of the late Charles Pooley Wilson, formerly Lieut. Indian Navy, and Principal Officer of the Board of Trade, London District, by his wife, Claudia Wilson (Highland Road, Upper Norwood, S.E.), dau. of James T. Secretan; _b._ Upper Norwood, 19 Dec. 1885; educ. Dulwich College and H.M.S. Britannia (where he won Cha |