Name
David Stanley Waterhouse*1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/02/1921
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
British South African Police
Service Column, Northern Rhodesian Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance,
Not on the Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford,
Not on the Watford memorials*2
Pre War
*1 Believed to be the brother of Arnold Middleton Waterhouse listed as Stanley on their parents' headstone*2
Son of David and Ruth Helen (nee MIDDLETON) WATERHOUSE of Watford.
His parents married 1887 in the Worksop, Notts, district. David died 4 April 1926 in Oxhey, Herts, aged 68, and was buried 8 April in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Ruth died 27 May 1936 in Watford aged 72, and was buried 30 May, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Was schooled at Watford Grammar School between January, 1898, to July, 1906.
On the 1901 Census, the family he lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
Lieutenant, British South African Police, Service Column, Northern Rhodesian Regiment. Served all through the campaigns in German South-West Africa and German East Africa.
Mentioned in despatches, 30th September, 1918, "for gallant and distinguished service in the Field.",
Died in Gwelo, Rhodesia, on 6th February, 1921, of Black-water Fever, contracted on war service.
Additional Information
*2 also commemorated. with his brother Arnold Middleton Waterhouse, on their parents' headstone in Watford Cemetery: "Stanley and Died in the Great War - To Fall Asleep in Not To Die, To Dwell With Christ in Better Life."
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads:
"WATERHOUSE, DAVID STANLEY. School period: January, 1898, to July, 1906. Lieutenant, British South African Police, Service Column, Northern Rhodesian Regiment. Served all through the campaigns in German South-West Africa and German East Africa. Mentioned in despatches, 30th September, 1918, "for gallant and distinguished service in the Field." [Has since died at Gwelo, Rhodesia, on 6th February, 1921, of Black-water Fever, contracted on war service.]"
Not recorded in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
