Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1/6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	14th October	CHATTAWAY	Philip Spencer	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (VIII.A.7)	(1)
2	14th October	HOLMES	Vernon Rains	Lt	MC	24	KIA	France	Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (Spec Mem 10)	-
3	13th November	INNES	William Robert	Capt	-	27	KIA	France	St Pierre Divion, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (VIII.D.9)	-
4	13th November	KIRK	Richard	Capt	MC	31	KIA	France	St Pierre Divion, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (X.B.4))	(2)
5	13th November	MORRISON	Robert Cecil	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	St Pierre Divion, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (IX.D.9)
Died 1917
6	5th July	CREW	Dennis Meirville	Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	"Calaban Trench", north of Wieltje	Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery Extn (I.E.15B)	(3)
7	14th July	BRIERLEY	Roger Christian	Lt	-	44	KIA	Belgium	Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Brandhoek Military Cemetery (I.M.21)	-
8	31st July	COWPE	George Bleazard	Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	St Julien, northeast of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
9	31st July	JONES	Thomas William Allen	2Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	St Julien, northeast of Ypres	New Irish Farm Cemetery (XXVI.B.14)	-
10	31st July	LEE	Jack	Capt	MC	26	KIA	Belgium	St Julien, northeast of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
11	31st July	ROGERS	William Ewart	Lt	-	36	KIA	Belgium	St Julien, northeast of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
12	8th August	STORRS	James Parker	2Lt	-	26	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Brandhoek	Brandhoek New Military Cemetery (III.E.15)	(4)
13	20th September	SCOTT	Clarence Trebor	2Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	Shrewsbury Forest, east of Ypres	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 61/63)	-
14	20th September	HOLMES	Wilfrid Bertram	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Near Shrewsbury Forest, east of Ypres	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 61/63)	-
15	22nd September	ASHWORTH	Edgar	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Near Shrewsbury Forest, east of Ypres	Hooge Crater Cemetery (XVII.A.5)	(5)
16	2nd November	PROCTER	Frank Goodheart	2Lt	-	25	DOW	France	24th Gen Hosp, Etaples	Etaples Military Cemetery (XXVIII.B.1)	(6)
17	22nd November	BROOKES	Percy	2Lt	-	31	KIA	Belgium	Northwest of Gheluvelt	Hooge Crate Cemetery (IV.K.1)	(7)
Died in 1918
18	27th March	MOYES	Alexander Barclay	Lt	-	33	KIA	France	Near Proyart	Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres (II.I.5)	-
19	20th April	HADDON	Thomas	Capt	-	25	POW	France	German Field Hospital at Hautmont	Hautmont Communal Cemetery (I.A.22)	(8)
20	28th August	PICKERSGILL	John Henry	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Northeast of Neuve Eglise	Godewaersvelde British Cemetery (II.D.24)	-
21	31st August	NICHOLSON	Richard Le Brun	Major	MC*	23	KIA	France	Northeast of Neuve Eglise	Godewaersvelde British Cemetery (II.D.19)	-
22	16th September	KENYON	William Douglas	Capt	-	27	DOW	France	CCS at Hazebrouck	La Kreule Military Cemetery (III.E.5)	(9)
23	15th October	ROWLEY	Gerald	Capt	MC**	24	DOW	France	CCS at La Kreule	La Kreule Military Cemetery (IV.B.14)	(10)
24	30th October	RHODES	Gerald Rudolph	Lt	-	22	DOI	UK	Cambridge	Dunwich (St James) Churchyard, Suffolk	(11)
Notes: 1. CHATTAWAY was originally buried in a battlefield grave in Paisley Avenue Cemetery, to the south of Thiepval Wood, and reburied in Lonsdale Cemetery after the Armistice. 2. KIRK was originally buried in a battlefield grave in Paisley Avenue Cemetery, to the south of Thiepval Wood, and reburied in Lonsdale Cemetery after the Armistice. 3. CREW was originally buried by the Germans in Westroosebeke Communal Cemetery but the grave was subsequently destroyed in later battles. A "Kipling" memorial was placed in Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery between 1924/1926. 4. STORRS was wounded at St Julien on 5th August 1917. 5. ASHWORTH was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the northeast of Shrewsbury Wood and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in August 1919. 6. PROCTER was wounded at Gheluvelt Wood on 26th September 1917. 7. BROOKES was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the northwest of Gheluvelt and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in April 1919. 8. HADDON was wounded near Proyart, east of Villers-Bretonneux, on 27th March 1918. 9. KENYON was wounded near "Daylight Corner" northeast of Wulverghem on 16th September 1918. 10. ROWLEY was wounded near Vervicq on 15th October 1918. 11. RHODES died of ? influenza/pneumonia. Injured in France in October 1918 ?

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

1/6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	14th October 1916	WALKER	Stanley Arthur	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, Somme	Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (VII.A.9)	(1)
2	29th March 1918	GALLIMORE	Hubert Thomas Keith	Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Aubercourt, southeast of Amiens	Pozieres Memorial (Panel 60)	(2)
3	1st November 1918	LEYBOURN	Frederick Percy	2Lt	MM, MiD	25	DOI	France	No.2 CCS, near "Haute Maison"	Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier C.87)	(3)
Notes: 1. WALKER was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps as Battalion Medical Officer. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave in Thiepval Wood and reburied in Lonsdale Cemetery in September 1920. 2. GALLIMORE was detached from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. At the time of his death the Battalion was part of 118th Brigade Composite Battalion. 3. LEYBOURNE died of influenza/pneumonia. He may well have been attached to HQ 21st Infantry Brigade at the time of his death. He was originally buried in the Monastery grounds at Mouveau and reburied at Y Farm Cemetery in April 1923.

Battalion History

The 6th Battalion TF was formed on 1st April 1908 as a result of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and was based at The Armoury, Stockport, part of the Cheshire Brigade, Welsh Division TF.

On 3rd August 1914 the Welsh Division's Infantry Brigades (North Wales Brigade, Cheshire Brigade and Welsh Border Brigade) were at their annual camps when all training was cancelled and the Battalions were ordered back to their HQs. War was declared next day. On 5th August the Battalions were mobilised, and the 6th Battalion had concentrated at its war stations at Shrewsbury on 9th August. On 11th August 1914 all TF units and men were invited to volunteer for Overseas Service and on 15th August the War Office issued instructions to separate those men who had signed up for Home Service only, and form these into Reserve units. On 22nd August the Battalion was moved to Church Stretton for further training. On 31st August the Battalion was moved to Northampton and on this day the formation of a Reserve or 2nd Line unit was authorised for each of the 1st Line units where 60 per cent or more of the men had volunteered for Overseas Service. The titles of these 2nd Line units would be the same as the original, but distinguished by a '2/' prefix. In this way duplicate Battalions, Brigades and Divisions were created, mirroring those 1st Line TF formations being sent overseas. Later 3rd Line units were formed to train and send reinforcing drafts for the 1st and 2nd Line Battalions.

1/6th Battalion

The Welsh Division TF, including 1/6th Battalion, were moved to Northampton at the end of August 1914 to undertake intensive individual and collective training. The Battalion was moved again on 10th October to Great Brington, to the northwest of Northampton, for further training being moved again on 25th October to Stonham Aspel, near Stowmarket involved in digging trenches for the East Coast Defences. On 30th October the Battalion was returned to Northampton and was ordered to prepare for deployment to the BEF in France. The Battalion was moved to Southampton Docks on 9th November for embarkation to Le Harve, arriving there on 10th November, where the battalion was placed under command of GHQ Troops. The Battalion was then entrained to St Omer arriving there on 14th November. on 17th November a detachment from the Battalion attended the funeral procession of Field Marshal Lord Roberts in St Omer whilst the remainder of the Battalion lined the local streets.

On 9th December the Battalion marched to Wulverghem, via Hazebrouck, Bailleul and New Eglise, arriving on 11th December. The Battalion was then attached to 14th Brigade, 5th Division, for instruction in trench warfare. On 17th December the Battalion was placed under command of 15th Brigade, 5th Division until 1st March 1915 when the Battalion returned to under command of GHQ Troops. The Battalion spent the next several months performing guard and security duties at bases at Rouen, Abbeville and Dieppe. On 9th January 1916 the Battalion was temporarily placed under command of 20th Brigade, 7th Division before being transferred to 118th Brigade, 39th Division on 29th February 1916. The Battalion remained with 118th Brigade until 28th May 1918 when it was transferred to 75th Brigade, 25th Division. On 17th June 1918 men of the 11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment were transferred to the Battalion when the 11th was reduced to a cadre unit and on 8th July 1918 the Battalion was transferred to 21st Brigade, 30th Division. After the Armistice, the 30th Division began a series of westwards moves and by 4 December 1918 was in billets at Renescure, west of Hazebrouck. In early January 1919, units of the Division moved for duty at the Base Ports of Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Etaples. Here, men began to be demobilised. The first unit to have been demobilised down to a cadre left for England in May 1919; others were disbanded in France. The Division ceased to exist on 1 September 1919.

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 1/6th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	Total
1916		5		5
1917	11	1		12
1918		6	1	7
TOTALS	11	12	1	24

Page last updated: 15th January 2026

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