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Private William Warren

 

 

Number: 9517

Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: 25 January 1900

Place: Belfast

Age: 20 years (his true age was 17)

Trade or calling: Draper

Place of birth: In the Parish of Ballyhanuth, in or near the Town of Ballyhanuth, in County Mayo

Address: 16 Eglinton Street, Belfast

Family: Single. Father William Warren, RIC pensioner and draper's clerk, mother Mary (Minnie) Warren (nee Algeo), of 16 Eglinton Street, Belfast.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 4 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair auburn. Three scars head.

Religion: Church of England

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900

Service medal, clasps and other awards: South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State.

DEATH

Date: 31 May 1900

Place: Lindley

Cause: Killed in action

Commemorated: Warren is probably buried in the Lindley Cemetery, perhaps as one of the eight unidentified British casualties. He is commemorated on the Yeomanry Kop Memorial, Lindley.

 

The Northern Whig reported on 8 June 1900 that:

Trooper W. Warren was a young resident of the city, employed prior to volunteering in the establishment of Messrs. Robinson & Cleaver. He was only nineteen years of age, and his death will be a sad blow to his widowed mother, who resides in Eglinton Street.

The circumstances of his death were described in a letter home by Private William Patton:

The enemy now directed their fire on us, forcing Lord Longford to retire further, owing to the direction from which the shells were coming. I and three others were cut off from the rest of our companions. Trooper Warren was killed, Troopers Lockhart and Greer severely wounded, I myself escaping without a scratch.

 

Image sourced from the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 9 June 1900.

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