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Ware brothers

Tags: Elizabeth Ware, Havant Road, Knapps Cottages

The late Walter and Elizabeth Ware, of Knapps Cottages, 1 Havant Road in Cosham, lost four sons during the First World War.

Private George Ware, 20, was a regular soldier serving with the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and went to France in August 1914. George Ware was killed on 14 September 1914 during the Battle of the Aisne, and is remembered on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial in France.

Sergeant Wynn Ware, 29, was serving with the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. The 5th Royal Irish were formed in Armagh in 1914 as part of Kitchener’s New Armies. Wynn Ware was killed at Gallipoli on 17 September 1915, and is remembered by a special memorial in Green Hill Cemetery in Turkey.

Corporal Jack Ware, 21, was a medic serving at 33rd Casualty Clearing Station, part of the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died on 20 December 1916, and is buried in Calais Southern Cemetery in France. Jack Ware must have been ill himself and transferred away from the front line, possibly explaining why he is buried in Calais.

Gunner Walter Ware, 36, was serving with 136th Heavy Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed on 15 June 1918, and is buried inCanadaFarmCemeteryinBelgium.

Walter died in 1894 and Elizabethin 1903, but had they been alive they would have received four telegrams from the War Office informing them that each of their sons had been killed in action.