Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	1st December	FORD	Kenneth George Haslam	Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Bailleul	Bailleul Community Cemetery Extn (N) (I.D.39)	(1)
Died in 1916
2	4th June	BUSHE	Gervase Gray	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.A.2.11)	(2)
3	3rd July	ABELL	John Lloyd William Howard	Capt	-	28	KIA	France	Southwest of Thiepval, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 3C/4A)	-
4	3rd July	ASPINALL	Richard Lowndes	Lt Col	DSO	47	KIA	France	Southwest of Thiepval, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (II.B.9)	-
5	3rd July	DOWSE	William Arthur Clarence	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Southwest of Thiepval, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 3C/4A)	-
6	3rd July	DUNLOP	Launcelot Lindsay Brook	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Southwest of Thiepval, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 3C/4A)	-
7	11th July	DEWAR	Harold Ernest	Lt	MC	27	DOW	France	CCS at Mericourt-L'Abbe	Heilly Station Cemetery (I.F.12)	(3)
8	12th July	CHANDLER	James Cooke	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Ovillers, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (II.G.6)	-
9	27th August	ANDERSON	Archibald John Scott	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	East of Authuille, Somme	Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, (I.D.15)	-
10	21st October	LACEY	Edred Severs	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	"Regina Trench", northwest of Courcelette	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 3C/4A)	-
11	21st October	SCOTT	Kenneth William Lairg	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	"Regina Trench", northwest of Courcelette	Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval (Sp Mem 3)	-
Died in 1917
12	7th June	RHODES	Charles Frederick Stanley	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	Messines Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
13	11th June	POTTS	Charles	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	CCS at Bailleul	Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extn (North) (III.C.69)	(4)
14	1st August	MALLINSON	Richard	Major	-	34	KIA	Belgium	Westhoek Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
15	1st August	WATSON	Geoffrey William	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Westhoek Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
16	2nd August	MARTIN	George Ernest	Capt	-	37	KIA	Belgium	West of Westhoek Ridge	Hooge Crater Cemetery (III.C.18)	(5)
17	12th August	MORGAN	Thomas Cyril	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Belgium	Westhoek Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
18	24th October	PEAKE	Arthur	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Pont Fixe, south of La Bassee Canal	Cambrin Military Cemetery (L.45)	-
19	25th October	CURTIS	Thomas Britt	2Lt	-	21	DOW	France	CCS at Bethune	Bethune Town Cemetery (III.J.17)	(6)
Died in 1918
20	22nd March	CLARKE	David	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Morchies, northeast of Bapaume	Arras Memorial (Bay 5/6)	-
21	22nd March	TRAYES	Frederic Kenneth Jackson	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Morchies, northeast of Bapaume	Arras Memorial (Bay 5/6)	-
22	23rd March	MILLER	George Frederick	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Near Beugny, northeast of Bapaume	Arras Memorial (Bay 5/6)	-
23	23rd March	PIGGOTT	George Frederick	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Near Beugny, northeast of Bapaume	Pozieres Memorial (Panels 35/36)	(7)
24	10th April	BARTON	George Rawdon	Capt	-	44	KIA	Belgium	Near Ploegsteert	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 4/5)	-
25	10th April	TAYLOR	Arthur	Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Near Ploegsteert	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 4/5)	-
26	3rd May	GREG	Robert Philips	2Lt	-	19	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Lijssenthoek	Lijssthenhoek Military Cemetery (XXVIII.E.20A)	(8)
27	27th May	WRIGHT	Charles	2Lt	MC	?	KIA	France	Concevreux, east of Soissons	Soissons Memorial	-
The Battalion was disbanded in France on 3rd August 1918
Notes: 1. FORD was the Battalion Machine Gun Officer. He was wounded by a sniper near "Picket House", east of Le Gheer on 30th November 1915. 2. BUSHE was wounded at Neuville St Vaast, southwest of Vimy, on 21st May 1916. 3. DEWAR was wounded at Ovillers on 10th July 1916. 4. POTTS was wounded on Messines Ridge on 8th June 1917. 5. MARTIN was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Westhoek Ridge and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in March 1919. 6. CURTIS was wounded near Pont Fixe, south of the La Bassee Canal on 19th October 1917. 7. PIGGOTT should properly have been commemorated on the Arras Memorial. 8. GREG was wounded near La Clytte, northwest of Kemmel on 29th April 1918.

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

11th (Service) Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	27th August 1916	SALISBURY	Percy Harold	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Thiepval	Blighty Valley Cemetery (I.D.16)	(1)
2	28th August 1916	LOY	Martin William,	Lt	-	43	KIA	France	Near Thiepval	Blighty Valley Cemetery (I.D.17)	(2)
3	11th August 1917	DUNCANSON	Stuart Ray	2Lt	-	25	KIA	Belgium	Westhoek Ridge, northeast of Westhoek	Tyne Cot Cemetery (XLVIII.G.15)	(3)
4	27th May 1918	PRIOR	Edward Robert Seymour	Lt Col	DSO, MC*	28	KIA	France	Concevreux, east of Soissons	Soissons Memorial	(4)
Notes: 1. SALISBURY was detached from the Leicestershire Regiment. 2. LOY was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps as Battalion Medical Officer. 3. DUNCANSON was detached from the Monmouthshire Regiment. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Westhoek and reburied at Tyne Cot Cemetery in October 1920. 4. PRIOR was detached from the South Lancashire Regiment as Commanding Officer.

Battalion History

11th (Service) Battalion. Formed at Chester on 17th September 1914 as part of K3. The Battalion assembled and concentrated at Codford St Mary, near Warminster under command of 75th Brigade, 25th Division for individual and collective training before moving to Bournemouth in November 1914. The Battalion was moved to the Aldershot area in May 1915 for intensive combat training. The Battalion entrained for Southampton Docks on 25th September 1915 embarking for Le Havre on HMT "Mona Queen", arriving there the next day. The Battalion then set out for it's first operational location at Ploegsteert Wood on 28th September arriving there on the 30th, relieving the 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry. The Battalion served with 25th Division until May 1918 when, after the battles of the German Lys Offensives, it was reduced to a cadre unit and transferred to 39th Division who were engaged in supervising courses of instruction for American troops. A detailed history of the battles and operations undertaken by the 25th Division during the war can be viewed here.

The Battalion was finally disbanded, in France, on 3rd August 1918.

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.

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Analysis of 11th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year

BE

FR

TOTAL

1915

1

1

1916

10

10

1917

5

3

8

1918

3

5

8

TOTALS

8

19

27

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