Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 118

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name WILLIAM ROBERT ALEXANDER WAREING (Capt)

Roll Number 1217 Died 23:03:1918

Lef SES 1910

Set / House B

Arrive SES 1905

Where NEAR FLAVY, FRANCE Serving with THE KING’S LIVERPOOL REGIMENT

Age 26

Buried Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France Remembered London WW1 Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque), The Cloisters Stone Memorial

Born Accrington, Lancashire in 1891. He was a School Prefect and a member of the Rugby Football XV of 1909. He was in the Vth Form. He went up to Hertford College, Oxford in 1910, BA 1913 and an MA (in absentia in 1917). He played for his College Rugby Football XV. At the outbreak of The Great War he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 11th Pioneers Battalion, of The King’s Liverpool Regiment in August 1914. In October 1915 he was in France with his regiment and was wounded in the right forearm in January 1916 and returned to England for treatment. Back in France in September 1916 he was slightly wounded, in the arm again, needing a return to England and hospital. In May 1917 he was back in France on a Company Commanders Course with the 3rd Army and was promoted to Acting Captain in July. In March 1918 he was reported ‘wounded and missing’ on the third day of the “Big Retreat”, during which time he was awarded the Military Cross (MC). Eventually his luck ran out and he was killed in action near Flavy, France in March 1918. ‘His Company was separated from the rest of the regiment, they had advanced then had to retire as the Great German Offensive developed. There were heavy casualties and they were even machine gunned by an aeroplane. After his Captain was shot and the ammunition exhausted, there were only four men left when Wareing was shot through the head. Accounts do differ, but no one doubted his outstanding valour’ (Chronicle).