220580 Sgt. William Herbert Waring VC, MM.British Army 25th (Montgomery and Welch Horse Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers (d.8th Oct 1918) Wiliam Waring died of wounds on the 8th of October 1918, aged 33 and is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery in France.
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 single handed, 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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