MORE LAKE FAMILY AT WAR
As family members war service is found I will be adding them to the Family At War Pages. Not all their surnames are Lake but they are all related to the Lake family in some way. I will explain for each person as necessary.
WALTER JOHN LAKE
BOER WAR
1899 - 1902
My 2nd Cousin twice removed
Walter John Lake No 3559 Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Boer War in South Africa. Also signed for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1. He has already been mentioned on the site as he was the husband of Aimee Henrietta Queripal (The Last Witch Trial). After buying land in Alberta in 1918 he completely disappeared.
My Uncle (by marriage to Nellie Lake)
WILLIS DOUGLAS SHIPWAY
WW1
ROYAL NAVY
Willis Douglas Shipway was a leading seaman in the Royal navy during World War 1. he served on the following ships:
HMS Talbot (shown above) HMS Berwick, HMS Minotaur, HMS vernon, HMS Lily, HMS Colleen, HMS Hannibal, HMS Vivid II, HMS Blenheim, HMS Dido & HMS Columbine.
After the war on 16 Dec 1920 Willis married my Aunt Nellie Lake in Stratford London.
My 1st Cousin twice removed
Robert Alfred Marker was a son of Mary Elizabeth Lake (my gt grand aunt) & Benjamin Marker. He was killed on HMS Indefatigable (shown above) on 31 May 1916 at the Battle of Jutland. He was just 36 and his body was never recovered.
ROBERT ALFRED MARKER
WW1
ROYAL NAVY
ARTHUR JOSEPH LAKE - KOREA
My 1st Cousin twice removed
Arthur J Lake born in Ontario Canada was the son of Wilfred Christopher Lake & Mary Frances Philips. he fought in Korea 1950 - 1953. He died in Hamilton Ontario in 2008 age 80.
EMMANUEL
BRAY LAKE
WW1
Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force
My 1st Cousin twice removed
Emmanuel Bray Lake born in Guernsey went to Canada before WW1, he enlisted in 1915 and became No 453166 in the 58th Battalion of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. (attestation paper above). He had previosuly been a member of the Royal Guernsey Artillery & Royal Guernsey Militia. He died in Newton Abbott Devon in 1938 age 75.
HARRY WEATHERHEAD Boar War
Harry Weatherhead is my 3rd cousin once removed and was born in Nash Buckinghamshire in 1881. On 24 Jan 1901 he volunteered to join up when Britain was fighting the Boar War. He was posted to the Imperial Yeomanry and after his basic training on 13 Mar 1901 was posted to South Africa. On 5th Sept 1901 he was slightly wounded at Rhenosterfontein in the North Province. By February 1902 he was in Mafeking in the North West Province where he was killed in action on 6 Feb 1902.
Mafeking is famous for the Siege of Mafeking which took place between 14 Oct 1899 & 16 May 1900 when 1500 British Troops under Colonel Baden Powell faced 7,500 Boar fighters. The British held out until they were relieved. His experiences at Mafeking was part of the reason that Baden Powell later started an organisation called The Boy Scouts in 1907.
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Captain in the 210th U.S. Army Aviation Battalion. Killed in the service of his country in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam on 28 Mar 1969 when his plane crashed.
Kenneth Rockwell Hughes
4th cousin once removed
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Omer Wilbur Bishop
3rd Cousin twice removed
Sgt Omer Wilbur Bishop No 402976 82 Squadron New Zealand Air Force. Shot down during a bombing raid over Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on 26 Aug 1941. He is remembered at the RAF Memorial Runnymede Surrey England