MARINER*, William
Private. 2nd Battalion. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
London Gazetted on 23rd June, 1915.
Born on the 29th May, 1882 at 12, Wellington Street, Chorley, Lancashire.
Killed in action on 1st July 1916 in France.
Memorial on Theipval Memorial, France.
Digest of Citation reads:
Taking advantage of a violent thunderstorm, on the 22nd and May 1915 near Canbrai, France, Private Mariner left his trench and creeping through German wire entanglements, reached an enemy gun emplacement. This gun had been thwarting his company's progress. Climbing on top of a German Parapet he threw a bomb under the emplacement's roof and waited for a quarter of an hour before throwing another bomb. He returned to his own trench, after waiting for the guns to fire on their entanglements of wire. He had been all alone for an hour and a half.
*Mariner was not his real name. He was the son of Mrs A. Wignall.