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BORN HULL 1882. SON OF SAMUEL WAUDBY (1848-1894) & MARY ANN TODD (1849-1899), OF HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN.
HE MARRIED, SARAH MARIA LAWLOR (1884-1970), AT DUBLIN, ON 18/01/1903, AGED 20.
A REGULAR ARMY SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, 6627, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR, LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 33. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, THERE.
HIS STORY AND HIS DEATH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/09/1915 & IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 11/09/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS WIDOW, SARAH & FIVE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 14 , CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL AND THEN MOVED TO DUBLIN.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, 16032, ARTHUR WAUDBY, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 38.