Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1/4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	9th August	BURRELL	John Stamp Garthorne	2Lt	-	31	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
2	10th August	ANTHONY	Thomas Vaughan	2Lt	-	36	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
3	10th August	BAZETT	Arthur Hugh	Capt	-	25	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Green Hill Cemetery (II.B.25)	(1)
4	10th August	DANSON	Francis Rudolf	Lt	-	23	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
5	10th August	KING	Sydney William Thacker	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
6	10th August	NICHOLSON	Alan Gifford	Lt	-	20	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
7	10th August	PRENTICE	Thomas Alfred	Major	-	32	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
8	10th August	TAYLOR	Archibald McMillan	Capt	-	34	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
9	10th August	WILSON	George Reginald	Capt	-	27	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 76/78)	-
10	19th December	WARRICK	William Roberts St Clair	2Lt	-	29	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Alexandria	Alexandria (Chatby) War Memorial Cemetery (Q.553)	(2)
Died in 1918
11	9th March	SIDEBOTHAM	Gerald	Capt	-	24	KIA	Palestine	Tell ’Asur	Jerusalem War Cemetery (M.94)	-
12	1st August	HOLDING	James	Capt	-	26	KIA	France	Near Beagneux and Grand Rozoy	Raperie British Cemetery (IX.A.7)	(3)
13	1st August	HOWES	Harold Edward	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Near Beagneux and Grand Rozoy	Raperie British Cemetery (IX.A.8)	(4)
14	1st August	SWINDELLS	Geoffrey Hillier	Lt Col	TD	44	KIA	France	Near Beagneux and Grand Rozoy	Raperie British Cemetery (IX.A.6)	(5)
15	2nd August	HUGHES	John Norman	2Lt	MC*	24	DOW	France	63rd CCS near Senlis	Senlis French National Cemetery (II.D.69)	(6)
16	3rd August	KNEATH	David John	2Lt	-	22	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrrs.B.8.18)	(7)
17	3rd September	BIDDULPH	William	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Northeast of Kemmel	Wytschaete Military Cemetery (I.A.10)	( 8)
18	4th September	RIGBY	Douglas Marshall	Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	West of Wytschaete	Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery (II.A.22)	(9)
19	6th September	BULLOCK	Charles Sidney	2Lt	-	27	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Reninhelst	Reninhelst New Military Cemetery (V.B.16)	(10)
Notes: 1. BAZETT was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Scimitar Hill and reburied in Green Hill Cemetery in July 1920. 2. WARRICK was wounded at Suvla, Gallipoli on 26th November 1915. 3. HOLDING was originally buried in a battlefield grave at Oulchy le Chateau, near Grand-Rozoy, and reburied in Raperie British Cemetery in October 1919. 4. HOWES was originally buried in a battlefield grave at Oulchy le Chateau, near Grand-Rozoy, and reburied in Raperie British Cemetery in October 1919. 5. SWINDELLS was originally buried in a battlefield grave at Oulchy le Chateau, near Grand-Rozoy, and reburied in Raperie British Cemetery in October 1919. 6. HUGHES was wounded near Grand-Rozoy on 1st August 1918. 7. KNEATH was wounded at ? on ? 8. BIDDULPH was originally buried in a battlefield grave northeast of Kemmel and was reburied in Wytschaete Military Cemetery in November 1919. 9. RIGBY was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Wytschaete and reburied in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery in November 1919. 10. BULLOCK was wounded at Vierstraat Switch, southwest of Wytschaete on 5th September 1918.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With

1/4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
3	10th March 1918	HUTCHINSON	Arthur George	2Lt	-	31	KIA	Palestine	Tell 'Asur,	Jerusalem War Cemetery (M.47)	(1)
4	16th October 1918	HERBERT	Edmund Widdington	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	River Lys, near Menin	Hooge Crater Cemetery (XX.G.4)	(2)
Notes: 1. HUTCHINSON was detached from the South Staffordshire Regiment. 2. HERBERT was detached from The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry). He was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the north of Coucou, east of Menin, and reburied at Hooge Crater Cemetery in August 1919.

Battalion History

The 4th Battalion TF was formed on 1st April 1908 as a result of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and was based at Birkenhead, under command of the Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division TF.

On mobilisation, the Battalion was moved to its war location at Shrewsbury and Church Stretton and at the end of August 1914 to the Northampton area. On 18th November 1914 the Welsh Division was ordered to prepare for service in India but this order was cancelled on 25th November. In late August and early September 1914, the Battalion was split into two separate units. The 1/4th Battalion was formed from men who has signed the Imperial Service Order and were fit for combat, and the 2/4th Battalion from men who could not or would not sign up for Imperial Service. On 13th May 1915 the Welsh Division was renamed 53rd ( Welsh) Division and the Cheshire Brigade became 159th (Cheshire) Brigade. At this time the Brigade was stationed in the Cambridge area and was moved to Bedford to continue intensive individual and collective training.

On 2nd July 1915 the 53rd (Welsh) Division was ordered to reorganise and refit for service in the Mediterranean. It embarked at Devonport and the transports reached Alexandria between 25th and 30th July before going on to Lemnos between 29th July and 7th August. On the night of 8/9th August the Division was landed at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsula, where an assault landing had been made two days before.

On 10th August the 159th Brigade was ordered to capture Scimitar Hill. The advance by 1/4th Cheshires, 1/5th Welsh and 1/7th Cheshires began from trenches north of Sulajik at 06.00 on the morning of 10th August with no cohesion. The leading troops were thrown back in disorder, despite acts of individual gallantry'. Troops of 158th (North Wales) Brigade, coming up in support but equally ignorant of the terrain or the situation, met parties of 159th Brigade coming back in full retreat, and the whole advance came to nothing.

After the failure of the Suvla Bay operations, the troops dug in and endured months of trench warfare and sickness. Due to casualties, the 1/4th and 1/5th Welsh had to be amalgamated as the 4th Welsh Composite Battalion. The number of sick grew worse after a three-day blizzard began on 27th November, and 53rd (W) Division was greatly reduced in fighting strength. The159th Brigade was attached to 2nd Mounted Division from 29 November to 9 December while preparations were made for evacuation. On 11th and 12th December the survivors of 53rd (W) Division were taken off the beach to Mudros, where they transshipped to transports to take them back to Alexandria.

53rd (Welsh) Division began arriving at Alexandria on 20th December and entrained for Wardan, where the last unit arrived on 23rd December. Once in Egypt the Division was slowly rebuilt from drafts and returned casualties. The 1/4th and 1/5th Welsh resumed their separate identities on 20th February 1916. The Division then took its place in the Suez Canal defences.

In late 1916 the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) initiated the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, during which 159th Brigade participated in the following:

First Battle of Gaza 26–27 March 1917
Second Battle of Gaza 17–19 April 1917
Capture of Tel el Khuweilfe 7 November 1917
Capture of Jerusalem 7–9 December 1917
Defence of Jerusalem 27–30 December 1917
Battle of Tell 'Asur 9–12 March 1918

The German spring offensive on the Western Front led to urgent calls for reinforcements for the BEF, and the EEF was forced to relinquish many of its veteran British Battalions. 53rd (Welsh) Division was among those changed to an Indian Army establishment of one British and three Indian Battalions to each brigade. 159th Brigade lost its two remaining Cheshire Battalions (1/4th and 1/7th) who were redeployed to France on 31st May 1918.

On 1st July 1918 the 1/4th Battalion was placed under command of 102nd Brigade, 34th Division after the Division was reconstituted after suffering heavy casualties during the Battle of the Lys and Battle of the Marne 1918. The Battalion remained with 34th Division until the end of the war.

On 1st November 1918 the Division was relieved and was in the area east of Courtrai at the Armistice. It was selected to join the Army of Occupation and began its move across Belgium and into Germany on 14th November. Between 12th-19th December it was billeted near Namur. On 22nd December a large number of miners and others with industrial skills left to be demobilised. By 29th January 1919 the Division had occupied the Cologne bridgehead. The infantry of the Division was once again reconstituted in March 1919 and on 15 March the whole formation was renamed the Eastern Division.

The 1/4th Battalion amalgamated with the 5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion, to create the 4th/5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion, in 1921

Regimental History

The Cheshire Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, which saw the 2 separate Battalions of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot re-titled to become the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Chester Castle.

The 1881 reforms also added the Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Militia units within the Regimental District of the County of Cheshire to the Regimental Establishment as numbered Battalions of the Regiment. The Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units were the 1st Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC, the 3rd Cheshire RVC, the 4th Cheshire (Cheshire and Derbyshire) RVC and the 5th Cheshire RVC. The Militia units of the Regiment were the 1st Royal Cheshire Light Infantry Militia and the 2nd Royal Cheshire Militia.

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalions were reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the RVC Battalions were retitled as Battalions of the Regimental Territorial Force. The 1st Cheshire RVC became the 4th Battalion TF, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC and the 3rd Cheshire RVC amalgamated and became the 5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion TF, the 4th Cheshire RVC became the 6th Battalion TF and the 5th Cheshire RVC became the 7th Battalion TF.

After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st June 1918, the Cheshire Regiment had formed, disbanded or reconstituted 35 Territorial Force, Service, Garrison, Labour, Reserve, Graduated and Young Soldier Battalions.

Analysis of 1/4th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	BE	EG	FR	GA	PA	Total
1915		1		9		10
1916
1917
1918	3		5		1	9
TOTALS	3	1	5	9	1	19

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