Herbert Ward

Who was Herbert Ward?

Herbert Ward was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer and African explorer. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo Free State. He later worked full time as a sculptor and lived in Paris. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, was twice mentioned in dispatches in World War I, was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

He left Mill Hill School at the age of 15, and travelled out to New Zealand, spending the next three years in New Zealand and Australia. He was "in turn kauri-gum digger, coal and gold miner, stock-rider, circus performer and sail-maker". He spent a year as a cadet with the British North Borneo Company, before a bout of malaria forced him to return to England.