Birth: 15 July 1912 Limerick, Ireland, UK
Father: George Edward Waterhouse 1883-1965
Mother: Monica Evelyn McCormack 1888-1964
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1934 Lambeth, London, UK
Wife: Margaret Desmond 1913-1974
Death: 22 September 1944 Mook, Mook en Middelaar, Limburg, Netherlands
Buried: I. E. 18 Mook War Cemetery, Groesbeekseweg, 6585 Mook, Netherlands
Marie C Waterhouse 1934
Monica E Waterhouse 1936
George E Waterhouse 1937
Margaret A Waterhouse 1939
William C J Waterhouse 1940
Lorraine Frances Mary Waterhouse [Campbell] 1941-a1982
Michael D Waterhouse 1943
Entry in Ancestry Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 for William Charles Waterhouse born in July-September 1912 in Limerick (5 317).
Marriage of William C Waterhouse and Margaret Desmond in FreeBMD in October-December 1934 in Lambeth (1d 630).
His first five children were born in Lambeth in 1934 to 1940 and last two in Sturminster in 1941 and 1943.
There are four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William Charles Waterhouse address 57 Newport Street, Bishops, Lambeth in 1936 and 1937, other occupants Margaret Waterhouse (wife?) and three other families, 35 Lambeth Walk, Princes, Lambeth in 1938, other occupants Margaret Waterhouse (wife?) and two other families, and 121 Wisden House, Oval, Kennington, Lambeth in 1939, other occupant Margaret Waterhouse (wife?).
Entry in Ancestry UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 for William Waterhouse Lance Corporal 2322116 Royal Corps of Signals born in Eire, died on 22 September 1944 in Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45.
Entry in Find A Grave for William Charles Waterhouse Lance Corporal: 2322116 Guards Armoured. Division, Signals, Royal Corps of Signals died on 22 September 1944 aged 32, buried I. E. 18 Mook War Cemetery, Mook Mook en Middelaar, Limburg, Netherlands. Son of George E. and Monica E. Waterhouse; husband of Margaret Waterhouse, of Sturminster Newton, Dorsetshire. "May God keep him/In the hollow of His hand".
Entry in Commonwealth War Graves Commission for William Charles Waterhouse Lance Corporal: 2322116 Royal Corps of Signals, Guards Armoured. Division, Signals, died on 22 September 1944 aged 32, buried I. E. 18 Mook War Cemetery, Groesbeekseweg, 6585 Mook, Netherlands. Son of George E. and Monica E. Waterhouse; husband of Margaret Waterhouse, of Sturminster Newton, Dorsetshire. The village was entered by parachutists of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division on 17th September, 1944; fighting continued in and around the village for four or five days until British armoured troops completed its liberation.
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Charles Waterhouse born in Ireland in 1912, parents George Edward Waterhouse and Monica Evelyn McCormack, his marriage to Margaret Desmond and death in Netherlands on 22 September 1944. Another entry adds his birth on 15 July 1912 in Limerick, Ireland.
William Charles Waterhous3e was the father of Lorraine Frances Mary Waterhouse, wife of Roderick Erskine Campbell, first cousin four times removed of George Marden, husband of Elizabeth Hall, my second great grandaunt.
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