Second Lieutenant Kenneth Selby WATERS

2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Selby Waters{gallery}2nd Lt K S Waters{/gallery}Indian Army Reserve Officer attached to No 1 British Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Killed (shot) by a cross-border raider at Bara Gali, Muree Hills, India, 30th May 1917, aged 27

• Buried: Karachi War Cemetery – now in Pakistan.
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War & Victory medals
• Son of Rev. Samuel George and Ellen Waters [nee Selby] of Meriden. 
• NNWFHS Memorial: King Edward VI Grammar School
• Other Memorial: Meriden
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for 2nd Lt Waters
• Karachi 1914-1918 War Memorial
• Royal Garrison Artillery

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born 18 Jun 1890 at Nuneaton
  
• Attended King Edward VI Grammar School, King’s School Grantham and St John’s College, Cambridge (B.A.)
  
• Lived at King Edward VI Grammar School [1891 & 1901] His father Samuel was a schoolmaster
• Lived at Bank House, 100A High Street, St John’s Wood, London [1911]
• Employed as a military student [1911]
  
• Joined shipping firm, Messrs Turner Morrison & Co in Calcutta [1912]
• Joined the Calcutta Port Defence Corp [Oct 1914]
• Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 3 May 1917