William Joseph Ward (11 Mar. 1887 - 17 Dec. 1962) was probably in Rangoon (Burma [now Myanmar]) before the First World War. He had joined the Rangoon Volunteer Rifles in 1913. During the war he served as a second lieutenant with the 96th and 98th Berar Infantry, an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army, and was part of the IEFB (Indian Expeditionary Force B) in British East Africa [Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania], also serving in the Mesopotamia [Iraq] campaign. By 1920 he had returned to India, where he presumably returned to a career working in the customs and excise department of the colonial government; in 1927 he was based in Karachi but by the 1930s he had settled in Calcutta with his wife, M.A. Ward [first names unknown] and at least two children. In the 1935 Bengal Civil List, Ward is listed as Commissioner of Customs in Calcutta. (Source: family notes).