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Serjeant WILLIAM HERBERT WARING

Service Number: 355014
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

25th (Montgomery and Welch Horse Yeo.) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 October 1918

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE

Div. 62. V. I. 3.

France

Famous casualties: headstone of Sjt W H Waring, VC in Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Victoria Cross, Military Medal
  • Additional Info Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Son of Richard and Annie Waring, of Welshpool, Mont.
  • Personal Inscription IN OUR HEARTS HE STILL LIVES
  • Additional Citation note

    An extract from the "London Gazette," dated 31st Jan., 1919, records the following:- "He led an attack against enemy machine guns and, in face of devastating fire from the flank and front, rushed a strong point singlehanded, bayoneting four of the garrison and capturing twenty others with their guns; then under heavy shell and machine gun fire, he re-organized his men, led and inspired them for another 400 yards, when he fell mortally wounded."

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