Biography:
John Wilson Ware was born 11 November 1897, the second (but elder surviving) son of John Tatham Ware, of York. His mother was Sophie Isabel Ware, the daughter of the Reverend James Allen Wilson, Canon of Ripon. His younger brother was Robert Remington Ware (D & College 1918-1922).
John came to Winchester College as a Scholar from Bramcote Preparatory School, Scarborough, in September 1911. He won the Senior Duncan Prize for mathematics in 1914 and competed in Junior Steeplechase in 1913.
He left Winchester in December 1914 and soon after passed into RMA Woolwich and obtained a commission in the RE in the following April. Ware then joined 74 Field Company of 15th (Scottish) Division in France in the summer of 1916, and on 11 July of that year was detailed to lead a bombing (hand-grenade) attack on an enemy trench near Vermelles, during a night raid. He was standing up on the German parapet encouraging his men and directing them where to throw their hand-grenades when he was struck himself and killed, aged eighteen.
He is commemorated in panels 4-5 of the Loos Memorial.