Education & Career :

Clerk (1915)

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

The East African Campaign was a series of battles and guerrilla actions which started in German East Africa (now Tanzania) and ultimately impacted portions of Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda, and the Belgian Congo. The German colonial forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, skillfully fought for the duration of World War I and surrendered only after that war had ended. Other campaigns were conducted in West and South West Africa.

Detail :

CWGC show BALL GWH as a Corporal (Service No. 3677) and serving with the South African Infantry. He is buried a Voi Cemetery, Kenya.

Masonic :

Discrepancies (Require checks, clarity or further research) :

Given the unique name it is surprisingly difficult to find anything other than the Masonic records and the record for the CWGC for this casualty. He is evidently South African and was killed less than a year into his becoming a Freemason. He was a Fellowcraft.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley