Hoare W J G Captain DSO 11th Royal Fusiliers
CAPTAIN WALTER JOHN GERALD HOARE, D.S.O., Royal Fusiliers as the only son of the late Rev John Hoare, Vicar of St. John’s, Keswick. He was educated privately.
He joined his uncle’s firm, Hichens, Harrison and Co., and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1912.
Soon after the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in the Royal Fusiliers, and went to the front in July 1915 as a Captain.
Captain Hoare had a distinguished military record. He was three times mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry when “with two sergeants, one of whom was wounded by the intense shell-fire, he dug out a buried sergeant and rescued him alive. He has done fine work throughout the operations.”
He was killed on 25 October 1916.
A brother officer wrote: “There never could be a man more respected and loved in the Regiment. He was the soul of kindness to the subalterns; we should never want to be under anyone else.”
Captain Hoare married in 1915 Alix, daughter of Maurice Ruffer, by whom he had one son.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918