Subject

LH St. Luke RH St. Mark

Text

LH Medicus ille dilectus RH Adjutor in reguo Dei

Inscription

AMDG In memory of Kenneth Charles Webb-Ware Killed in action in France 21st March 1918

Description & History

Stained glass artist William Montgomery designed and made all the windows for the first stage of All Saints' Chapel at Geelong Grammar School, devised in conjunction with the Headmaster, the Reverend Dr. Francis E. Brown. Subjects for the two two-light windows on the chancel north and south walls were the four Evangelists, with St Luke and St Mark opposite St Matthew and St John on the north wall. Montgomery notified Dr. Brown that he had completed the sketch for Mrs. Webb-Ware in September 1918, however the window did not proceed immediately, possibly because of the large number of commissions that Montgomery was receiving towards the end of the war. It was unveiled on 9 October 1921 by the Reverend J.W. Ashton, Vicar of All Saints', East St. Kilda and Bishop-elect of Grafton (NSW). The window cost the considerable sum of £157.10.0 which was promptly paid in April 1921, shortly after the window was installed.

Second Lieutenant Webb-Ware, elder son of the late Charles Webb-Ware, trained in England before proceeding to France where he served in the British Army with the 77 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. On 21 March 1918, a stray bullet burst at the foot of the Battery's gun pit, killing the 21 year-old Webb-Ware instantly and wounding seven other men. He was buried in the British Cemetery at Feuchy, France.

References & Acknowledgements

AWM Commemorative Roll; James Affleck, Geelong Grammarians of the Great War, (1999), pp.10-11; Argus, 30 March 1918, p.1; Church of England Messenger, 13 October 1921, p.490; Montgomery Letterbook 1, pp.755,757,801,815, National Gallery of Australia Research Collection; Folio 128, Montgomery ledger; Letter from Rev. F.E. Brown, 14 December 1917; William Montgomery Collection, SLV.