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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 13:26:21 GMT
The roll of honour is now in Lancaster Methodist Church.42309 Private Joseph Metcalfe Bulcock 2nd/7th Lancashire Fusiliers 21.3.1918, aged 20 Son of James Henry and Martha Bulcock, of 13, Salisbury Road, LancasterR Gardner W Gardner W Graham 154175 Private Charles Kendall 2nd Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 21.8.1918, aged 25 Son of Walter and Annie Kendall, of 10, Cavendish Street, Lancaster241515 Private N Newby 2nd/5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 24.5.1919 72493 Private Herbert Waiting 2nd/6th The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 30.10.1917, aged 25 Son of Tom and Isabella Waiting, of 13, Cavendish Street, LancasterW Walling - possibly W. Wallington M Wilson       
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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 13:41:34 GMT
72493 Rifleman Herbert Waiting, 2nd/6th The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Believed killed in action on 30th October 1917, aged 25. Son of Tom and Isabella Waiting, of 18, Cavendish Street, Lancaster. Though there is still an element of uncertainty regarding the fate of Rifleman Herbert Waiting (25), second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Waiting, 18, Cavendish-street, he is believed to have been killed in action on October 30th. He was last week officially reported missing since October 30th. On Tuesday, the following letter, dated November 15th, was received from Capt. C. T. Steward, of the Second Sixth K. Liverpool Rifles, by L.-Corpl. Percy Waiting, his brother :- "I am very sorry to say that your brother, Rifleman H. Waiting, is missing. When last seen he was in a post in the front line. This post was very heavily shelled by the Germans, and had to withdraw. Your brother left with the rest of the men, but came back a different way to them, and has not since been seen. He was last seen going in the direction of Company Headquarters, but he did not reach there. I am afraid, therefore, one can only assume that he was killed on the way. I have hesitated to write to you until I had made the fullest enquiries, for fear I reported him missing incorrectly; but I fear now there is no doubt but that he was killed. Please accept my most sincere sympathy in your anxiety and sorrow." Rifleman Waiting was an old boy of the National School, and prominently identified with the Marsh Wesleyan Mission, at which his musical talents were frequently in request as organist and accompanist. He was also in the Wesley Choir, Sulyard-st., and he was in the warehouse at Lune Mills when he joined the forces on April 8th. While in training at Pembroke Dock he was often accompanist for the Y.M.C.A. in their hut concerts. On July 24th he crossed to France, and corresponded regularly till October 30th, when he was reported missing. He was an exceedingly popular young man, and much sympathy has been expressed for his parents. Two brothers are serving, the eldest, Pte. F. J. Waiting, being in the Army Pay Corps, and Lance-Corpl. Percy Waiting, a Signaller in the Cheshires. (Lancaster Guardian, 24 November 1917)_____________________________________________________________ WAITING. - In loving memory of Rifleman HERBERT WAITING, missing October 30th, 1917, now presumed dead. "Not lost, but gone before." From his loving Father and Mother, Brothers, and Sister in law. 18, Cavendish-street. (Lancaster Guardian, 26 October 1918)
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