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Surname: WATERHOUSE
Forename(s): Gilbert Wilmot
Place of Birth: Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Service No: ---
Rank: T/2nd Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 6th (Service) Battalion
Division: 12th (Eastern) Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1917-04-10
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. B. 2.
CWGC Cemetery: DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse (born 11 July 1897) was the son of Charles Wilmot and Hylda Waterhouse, née Hartley. Charles, born at Southampton, Hampshire, was the son of Wilmot Henry and Margaret Maria Waterhouse. Hylda, born at Giggleswick, Yorkshire, was the daughter of William and Emily Hartley.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse, 5228, 760895, 28 Lond. R.; 2/Lieut R. W. Kent R. Theatre of War first served in: (1) [France]. Date of entry therein: 3.3.16. Comm[issioned] R. W. Kent R. 10.2.17. Decd. 10.4.17. Correspondence: Father - C.W. Waterhouse Esq. c/o Lady A.C. Houston, 19, Fairhazel Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W.6.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse, 5228, 760895, 28th Lond. R. Theatres of war in which served: 1(a) [France] 24.3.16. Cm. 6/R.W.Kent R. 10.2.17.
Army Registers of Officers' Effects: 2 Lt G.W. Waterhouse, 6 Royal West Kent Regt. Date and Place of Death: 10.4.17. Of wounds. To whom issued/Amount: Father - Charles Wilmot Waterhouse Esq. £61 16s. 2d.
Gilbert is commemorated in the Cranleigh School Roll of Honour book.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 12th (Eastern) Division
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Charles Wilmot Waterhouse the father of T/2nd Lieutenant Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse
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27 April 1917
SETTLE
Second Lieutenant Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse, who fell in action on April 9th, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs Charles W. Waterhouse, of Huntsville, Canada, and grandson of the late William Hartley, of Catteral Hall, Settle. Aged 20 years, he was educated in Toronto, Canada, and at Cranleigh School, Surrey. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in November 1915, and obtained his commission early this year.
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Gilbert Wilmot Waterhouse was born in Huntsville, Ontario Canada, where his father had founded the Deerhurst Resort in the late 1890s. He was an Anglophile, he was educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey. His Grandparents were William Hartley (1824-1901) and Emily Hartley (nee Bentham) (1832-1914), who lived at Catterall Hall, Giggleswick. Hylda was their 5th child.