Family :

Education & Career :

Ware went to Winchester from Mr C A Ford’s school at Potton. He was on dress for OTH XV in his last year.

In 1891 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge where he took the Law Tripos, graduating as BA and LL.B in 1894. On leaving Cambridge he entered into practice as a solicitor in the firm of Foster, Spicer and Foster of Queen Street Place, London.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

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

The Battle of the Somme 1st July - 18th November 1916 is inevitably characterised by the appalling casualties (60,000) on the first day, July 1st 1916. Having failed to break through the German lines in force, and also failed to maximise opportunities where success was achieved, the battle became a series of attritional assaults on well defended defence in depth. The battle continued officially until 18th November 1916 costing almost 500,000 British casualties. German casualties were about the same, and French about 200,000. The Somme could not be counted a success in terms of ground gained or the cost, but it had a strategic impact as it marked the start of the decline of the German Army. Never again would it be as effective whilst the British Army, learning from its experience eventually grew stronger to become a war winning army. The German High Command recognised that it could never again fight another Somme, a view that advanced the decision to invoke unrestricted submarine warfare in an attempt to starve Britain of food and material, and in doing so accelerated the United States declaration of war thus guaranteeing the eventual outcome. 287 Brethren were killed on the Somme in 1916.

Detail :

He fell in action on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme during the Division’s attack on the Gommecourt Salient. He was killed while leading a party to bring supplies to the London Scottish near Hebuterne. He had been wounded once already that day but insisted on staying with his men. His company’s task was to carry the supplies up a sap (a trench leading out into No Man’s Land), an idea used to reduce the distance exposed to enemy fire. However, the Germans had plenty of time to respond and the trench became a death-trap. One of his men described what happened: “A shell from a German trench mortar exploded where the officer was standing, and after the explosion he could see nothing of Captain Ware.”

Masonic :

Joined Old Wykehamist from St.Georges and Cornerstone No. 5 in 5th February 1914.Records of the lodge show "Missing now reported killed".

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