Fallen Officers of the Great War   |   Cheshire Regiment

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1915

1

30th October

WATT

John Vade

2Lt

-

19

A

UK

Prees Heath Camp

Whitchurch Cemetery (1304)

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Died in 1916

2 

9th February

BROWN

Richard Stanley

2Lt

-

37

DOW

UK

Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool

Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery (I.RC.112)

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Notes:   

1.   WATT was accidentally killed at Prees Hill Camp on 30th October 1915 due to ?

2.   BROWN was injured in both legs by an explosion at Kinmel Park Rhyl during a training exercise and died in Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool.

14th (Reserve) Battalion.   Formed and assembled at Birkenhead in October 1914 as a Service Battalion, part of "K4", and placed under command of 105th Brigade of the original 35th Division.   On 10th April 1915 the Battalion was reconstituted as a Reserve Battalion providing trained drafts of reinforcements to the regimental Service Battalions.   The Battalion was moved to Kinmel Park, Rhyl in July 1915 before moving to Prees Heath in August 1915.   On 1st September 1916 the Battalion was reorganised and converted into 50th Training Reserve Battalion of the Training Reserve, losing its Regimental affiliation.

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.