Biography:
Cyril Narramore Were was born 6 July 1881, the elder son of the Right Reverend Edward Ashe Were, Bishop of Stafford ( an Assistant Master at Winchester from 1870 to 1880), and Julia Were, daughter of Thomas Miller. A younger brother, Edward Julian Were, followed him to Winchester in 1902.
Cyril came to Winchester College from Dr. West’s school in Bournemouth in September 1895. He was in B House, Moberly's, and he played in OTH XV in 1899 and stood on Dress for OTH VI the same year.
He left Winchester in the summer of 1900 for Christ Church, Oxford and took his degree in 1903. He then went to the Bishop’s Hostel in Farnham before being ordained in 1904. After three years as Curate of Bramshott, he moved in 1907 to be Rector of Samford Brett, and then to be Curate of Addlestone. On 1 August 1907 he married Miss Mildred Gladys Tripp, of 14 Christchurch Road, Reading, and on his death left one son. After seven years of parish work, he was appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield in 1911. In 1914 he went to Southwark to become Domestic Chaplain to Dr. Burge, the Bishop of Southwark and formerly Headmaster of Winchester College.
Towards the end of 1917, Were was attached to 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. At the beginning of 1918 the battalion was at Lynde, near Ypres, from where it moved on 6 January to the support trenches in the Clapham Junction-Bodmin Copse area near Polderhoek. Were died of natural causes on 8 January 1918: he was found dead in bed, at the age of only thirty-six. It is possible he was the victim of gas poisoning.
He was buried in grave II.D.53 of the Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul.